Jeff Agrest
Deputy sports editor
Jeff Agrest is deputy sports editor at the Chicago Sun-Times.
Waddle, who co-hosts the afternoon show on ESPN 1000, will join host Taylor McGregor on “Bears Den,” a 30-minute show that will air on Thursdays during the season.
Of 11 Bears games on FOX last season, Joe Davis and Daryl Johnston called five, and Adam Amin and Mark Schlereth called three.
Big Ten football Saturdays will have an NFL Sunday feel beginning this season as the conference kicks off its media-rights deals with FOX, CBS and NBC.
As the lead play-by-play voice alongside analyst Taylor Twellman on Apple TV’s MLS Season Pass, Zivin figures to call more of Messi’s goals.
But the party for Doris Burke and Doc Rivers was muted by layoffs that touched ESPN’s previous top team. The network dismissed analysts Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson, who called 15 NBA Finals with Mike Breen.
Silverman also will host the halftime show, which the station is giving a new format. ESPN 1000’s first day of Bears game-day programming is Saturday.
McGriff hit 30 home runs for the 2002 team, becoming the oldest Cub to do so at 38. It was his 10th year with 30 homers. It also was his last full season.
“I was always a little disappointed because I was supposed to help the Cubbies win that first World Series, and it didn’t quite happen,” McGriff said. “So that one stings a little bit.”
Hughes makes his living speaking extemporaneously to tens of thousands of listeners on Cubs radio broadcasts. So it’s interesting that reading a prepared speech at a private ceremony would make him nervous.