Wednesday in Yankee Stadium, in a fractionalized second, a 2-year-old was struck in the head with a 105-mph line-drive foul. At last word, she remained hospitalized. The next day on WFAN, this there-but-for-the-grace-go-thee episode was exploited by Mike Francesa to remind peons that he’s wealthy and privileged, thus doesn’t have to worry about such misfortune...
Mike Francesa’s victim-blaming takes show to sickening new low
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These two Colin Kaepernick reactions show why he’s doomed
Forget the actual process of signing Colin Kaepernick. Merely the idea of him in a football uniform again is enough to make head coaches buckle and former star quarterbacks vent. There is nearly zero chance Kaepernick takes another snap in the NFL, his filing a collusion grievance against the league this weekend sealing his fate....
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Craig Carton fill-in host ready to forge his own path
CBS Sports Radio host Gregg Giannotti has been filling in consistently alongside Boomer Esiason on WFAN’s morning show since Craig Carton’s resignation. Giannotti, who could land the job full-time, talks with The Post’s Justin Terranova about his rise from producer, his chemistry with Esiason and what the show could look like going forward. Q: You...
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‘We haven’t spoken since 2010’: How Mike Francesa has welcomed his replacements
` The congratulations from Mike Francesa may not come too quickly. WFAN officially introduced the trio — Chris Carlin, Bart Scott and Maggie Gray — replacing the longtime host, using Boomer Esiason’s morning show as the platform. Esiason gave a warm welcome to the group, who will take over for the most famed voice in...
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Sydney Esiason engaged to hockey star her dad has accepted
Now that he’s put a ring on longtime girlfriend Sydney Esiason, Maple Leafs winger Matt Martin is hopeful to score one of his own as the Stanley Cup playoffs approach. On Sunday, the former Islander popped the question to the 25-year-old daughter of WFAN host and one-time Jets quarterback Boomer Esiason, after several years of...
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Boomer Esiason fires back at ‘classless’ Mike & the Mad Dog
They weren’t laughing. Chris Russo and Mike Francesa took some shots Wednesday over WFAN’s struggling ratings in the months after Francesa’s departure, and morning-show hosts Boomer Esiason and Gregg Giannotti, as well as WFAN’s vice president of programming, Mark Chernoff, responded Monday morning. “Classless, it really was,” Esiason said in comments first noted by Newsday. “I’ll tell...
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Chris Russo doubles down on Boomer Esiason mockery
It’s an eye for an eye in Chris Russo’s book. Russo, one half of WFAN’s old “Mike & the Mad Dog” show, shot back at Boomer Esiason and his former WFAN colleagues who took offense to the jokes he and Mike Francesa made during a reunion show last week about the station’s declining ratings. Starting...
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Boomer Esiason isn’t ending this Chris Russo fight
The former faces of WFAN are now the faces on the target board. The radio war between Chris Russo, Mike Francesa and the ones they left behind continued Wednesday morning, when Boomer Esiason again responded to their shots on the “Afternoon Drive Show,” taking the mantle as the voice of FAN. Chris Carlin, Maggie Gray...
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Afternoon hosts take private ‘Mike & Mad Dog’ frustration to the airwaves
The trio in the middle of the WFAN vs. “Mike & the Mad Dog” spat came to their own defense on Tuesday for the first time, at least publicly. A week after Mike Francesa and Chris Russo mocked their old station as a whole, and the ratings of the afternoon hosts in particular, Chris Carlin,...
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Mike Francesa proclaims WFAN return in cryptic revenge plan
Mike Francesa says he is coming home. A day after The Post’s Andrew Marchand reported that a desperate Francesa was trying to work his way back to WFAN, the broadcasting legend confirmed his intentions to Newsday. “It is time to return to WFAN,” Francesa told the paper. It remains unclear what exactly what that role...
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How Mike Francesa’s replacements are handling his return
Mike Francesa’s replacements are better at one thing than the WFAN legend. On a day of turmoil on the sports station, Chris Carlin, Maggie Gray and Bart Scott took the high road in complimenting Francesa even as he’s poised to take back some of his airtime from them. “All I could tell you is this:...
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WFAN morning show unloads on Mike Francesa return
Back, after these disses. Mike Francesa is being welcomed back to WFAN not with open arms but with anger. The tenants of the radio station — and perhaps its biggest face since Francesa left in December, Boomer Esiason — took some shots at the returning sports-radio legend Wednesday, a day after he announced his second...
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MLB managers keep finding new ways to blunder
Hello, again. Today we study Einstein’s theory of relativity and his conclusion that you can’t pick your relatives. And as Confuse-us said, “The small of the back is always opposite the large of the stomach.” And if I’m making no sense, you ain’t read nothin’ yet. My friend Marty retired to Florida, but became bored....
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Kurt Warner emerging for Boomer Esiason’s Super Bowl gig
Hall of Famer Kurt Warner did not land ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” job, but he might end up calling the Super Bowl — on radio. Warner is the leading candidate to replace Boomer Esiason as Westwood One’s analyst on the Super Bowl, The Post has learned. The Super Bowl and the playoffs are the prizes...
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‘No excuses’ for Eli Manning now: Boomer Esiason
It’s win now and win eventually. We already have seen the fruits of these differing strategies by the Giants and Jets on draft night when the teams selected players at No. 2 (Saquon Barkley) and No. 3 (Sam Darnold) who will define the future of both franchises. Now, it will play out starting this week...
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Mike Francesa angrily lashes out at another WFAN show: ‘Boomer & Gio’
The Sports Pope is going after his self-perceived underlings at WFAN again. A few weeks after he sided with Garden chairman James Dolan over FAN teammate Maggie Gray, Mike Francesa on Wednesday went after morning-show hosts Gregg Giannotti and Boomer Esiason, saying their show “stinks.” He also claimed that Giannotti and Chris Carlin — one-third of...
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Boomer Esiason opens up on ‘cautionary tale’ Craig Carton
Boomer Esiason opened WFAN’s morning show Thursday by dealing with former co-host Craig Carton’s fraud conviction. “All of us are saddened by the news and we had all held out hope that Craig would somehow find his way out of what he got himself into,” a somber Esiason said. “There are victims in this case....
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WFAN war picks up: Mike Francesa is a miserable ‘bully’
A day after Mike Francesa lashed out at “Boomer & Gio” co-host Gregg Giannotti — saying his show “stinks,” among other complaints — Giannotti clapped back, calling Francesa a miserable, insecure narcissist in an early-morning tirade Thursday. “He’s an insecure bully who thinks those things are going to affect me, affect us, and it just...
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Inside WFAN’s war: Obsessive Francesa, sensitive Carlin and Gio in middle of it all
In daily texts to his boss at WFAN, Mike Francesa will weigh in on a variety of topics. While Francesa may come across as charged up on the air, this daily barrage of messages is intense and incessant. Though Francesa has said for years he does not pay attention to the other shows on his...
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Former New York QBs know that Eli Manning exit won’t be pretty
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — When should it end? When does an athlete, who’s had a sustained run of success with his team, know when it’s time to walk away? When does a franchise, for whom a player has been borderline iconic, know it’s time to move on? These are the uncomfortable questions the Giants and...
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