Anyone old enough to remember the show "Sportswriters on TV" it aired out of Chicago on WGN

Hibakusha 4682 posts Original UHND Member

Posted 10:07 am on Nov 18, 2020

It predated the radio and tv sports talk shows and was a room full of cigar smoke and banter. Local sports guys Bill Jauss, Bill Gleason, Ben Bentley and the young guy Rick Telander from SI. They talked everything from boxing to horse racing and of course the Irish.

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Anyone old enough to remember the show "Sportswriters on TV" it aired out of Chicago on WGN Hibakusha 10:07am · 11/18/20
- That group, oddly enough, would have been down with the kneelers. Especially Jaust and Telander.NT ELP 10:28pm · 11/18/20
- Gleason was a columnist for both the Southtown in Chicago and the SB TribNT jrdjr84 5:10pm · 11/18/20
- I remember it well... as pointed out below it started out as a radio show D2 4:39pm · 11/18/20
- At first, I recalled the Boston one, then remembered this one; cubsfanin16 2:50pm · 11/18/20
  - Mike Lupica was an idiot and an ass. A BC grad by the way. He was wrong about everything.NT THEISMANCARR 3:58pm · 11/18/20
    - Agreed, and when I wrote, "an irritant', I meant Lupica although cubsfanin16 4:34pm · 11/18/20
- Local show?NT whatsamataU 1:40pm · 11/18/20
  - Yep. Chicago area on SportsVision which later became SportsChannel Chicago. Irish_Demon 1:57pm · 11/18/20
- Absolutely. Used to watch it often. TakethetrainKnute 1:04pm · 11/18/20
  - Ha that's it!NT Hibakusha 2:20pm · 11/18/20
    - There's a bunch on YouTube. Recall seeing this one where they discussed Kurt Cobain's suicide... TakethetrainKnute 3:55pm · 11/18/20
      - These guys were great, what the hell Nirvana and sports, cigars. Hibakusha 9:59pm · 11/18/20
- I remember it well.NT ELP 11:45am · 11/18/20
- Sure, but rather than predating, it was actually a video adaptation of a radio talk show on WGN Irish_Demon 11:40am · 11/18/20
  - Re: Sure, but rather than predating, it was actually a video adaptation of a radio talk show on WGN fedman 2:29pm · 11/18/20
  - That's right, I forgot it was a talk show filmed for TV. I liked it because you always got ND talk.NT Hibakusha 12:53pm · 11/18/20
- *NT Aragoto 11:34am · 11/18/20
- Sure.NTLink Aragoto 11:34am · 11/18/20

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