Jeff Agrest
Deputy sports editor
Jeff Agrest is deputy sports editor at the Chicago Sun-Times.
“He more than anyone else got me started in broadcasting,” Hughes said of his brother John, who died in his mid-50s. “He had a very difficult life; just problem after problem.”
If I needed one of them to call the biggest baseball game in city history, it would be Hughes.
The former Bears center, who hasn’t appeared on a Chicago outlet since being fired at CHGO Sports for grabbing the neck of a colleague, will co-host the station’s Bears pregame and postgame shows.
I don’t understand how anyone schooled in journalism can toss aside the press hat they wore for decades while the press covers a story that’s right under their nose.
Move comes after new allegations came to light following the coach’s two-week suspension announced Friday.
Afternoon host Danny Parkins detailed coach Jim Foster’s bullying and abusive behavior that was the subject of a university investigation. But the school didn’t talk to any players in the program. Parkins did.
Last week, the four-day B1G Experience at the network’s River North office gave 16 participants the chance to learn about various aspects of sports media, from studio and game analysis to interviewing to makeup and styling.
The station’s contract with the Bears expired after last season, and the team took its rights to the market. Ultimately, it agreed to return on a multiyear deal.
It was the network’s most-watched NASCAR Cup Series race in six years, since Indianapolis in 2017, which drew 5.647 million viewers.