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.
It was great on the radio. I used to listen to it all the time. It was okay once to got to TV.
which was a great show Loved that Jauss guy....Was the other one more recent, Boston's Bob Ryan, Mike Lupica, ( an irritant), Phllly's Bill Conlin , (Im not recalling last guy)
I think they're all gone except for Rick Telander.
Young guy Telander should be 70 now...
I enjoy this more than the screaming I see and hear today in sport talk.
It was at it's zenith in the mid 80s with those great Bears teams. Except for Rick Telander, I wasn't a big fan of any one of the regulars, but the chemistry between them made the show work. Especially with the eccentric fight promotor, Ben Bentley as the moderator.
I used to take the wife for an afternoon Sunday drive and would have the 'Sports Writers' on WGN radio. It was started by Chicago Sports Columnist Bill Gleason in the late 1970s. His fellow panelists were Ben Bentley, Bill Jauss and Rick Telander. The show then migrated to television in the mid-1980s. It was unique for its time and was clearly the forerunner of sports talk radio.
