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Dan McNeil during his sports talk show in ESPN radio on Jan. 22, 2008.

Dan McNeil is out at WSCR-AM after tweet about ESPN’s Maria Taylor: ‘Its degrading and humiliating tone to a fellow female broadcaster was unacceptable’

September 15, 2020 at 6:28 p.m.

Dan McNeil is out at WSCR-AM 670, a day after a tweet in which the sports-talk host compared ESPN sideline reporter Maria Taylor's attire on "Monday Night Football" to that...

Bears’ Chicago-area TV ratings for Week 1 victory over Lions are down 32% from 2019 opening prime-time loss to Packers

September 14, 2020 at 2:11 p.m.

The Bears opened the 2020 season with a better record and worse Chicago-area TV household ratings than a year ago. That's not entirely surprising. The 2019 season began with great...

Winners and losers from Bears-Lions in Week 1: Fox’s insulting digital fans and the twisted logic of replacing Kenny Albert with Dick Stockton

September 14, 2020 at 6:37 a.m.

All the normalcy that football fans needed Sunday was found in how the Chicago Bears flailed early and the Detroit Lions flailed late in their season opener at Ford Field....

Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Alec Mills is congratulated by catcher Victor Caratini and first baseman Anthony Rizzo after throwing a no-hitter against the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday, Sept. 13, 2020, in Milwaukee.

In calling Alec Mills’ Cubs no-hitter, Marquee’s Len Kasper and Jim Deshaies match the moment — but Bob Uecker unfortunately commits an error on the final play

September 14, 2020 at 7:14 a.m.

It's a special thing when the quality of a baseball call matches the moment, just as Chicago Cubs TV announcers Len Kasper and Jim Deshaies delivered Sunday for the final...

Ford Field, home to the Detroit Lions, is seen before drills at a team practice, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020, in Detroit.

Fox forced to shuffle its Bears-Lions broadcast crew, replacing Kenny Albert with Dick Stockton because of the NFL’s COVID-19 protocols

September 13, 2020 at 6:53 a.m.

Fox's Kenny Albert left what he called "the safest place in North America" during the COVID-19 pandemic and headed to Detroit for Sunday's Chicago Bears-Detroit Lions game only to find...

Cubs manager David Ross prepares for the game.

Winners and losers from ESPN’s Cubs-Cardinals broadcast, including Mike Shildt bailing, a lost earpiece and unexpected love for the White Sox — and Hawk Harrelson

September 7, 2020 at 8:34 a.m.

It's a wonder we don't see more people do what St. Louis Cardinals manager Mike Shildt did during his team's 7-3 victory over the Chicago Cubs on "Sunday Night Baseball."...

Today the Cubs want a Wrigley Field betting parlor, but 100 years ago the team orchestrated a gambling raid that resulted in 47 arrests in its bleachers

September 5, 2020 at 3:43 p.m.

Today, Chicago Cubs management talks of welcoming gamblers to Wrigley Field. A century ago, it was calling the cops on them. News last week of the Cubs' plan to open...

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