He got his start working in the shadows of SU at WHEN Radio. The 1999 Syracuse University alum has been with SiriusXM for 15 years. He’s heard weekdays from 10am-1pm on SiriusXM’s Mad Dog Sports Radio and he’s also seen on CBS Sports Network, weeknights from 6-7pm. I couldn’t tell you half their names or anything memorable they’ve said. Hopping around the dying AM dial, PCs or mobile devices, talk show hosts today are indistinguishable. Still, Schein isn’t afraid to opine, particularly about the NFL to which he pays lots of attention. Chris speed-talks, spewing more words in five minutes than Schein does in an hour. For years, he did overnights, which he called, “a journey to 5:30.” Schein grew up in New York, listening to both Somers and Russo.Īdam delivers his sports axioms in a deliberate cadence vocal mannerisms that belie Russo’s. When I first heard Adam Schein, I said to myself, this fellow’s cadence is so similar to longtime New York sports talkie, Steve Somers, a WFAN institution since day one, July 1, 1987. If Russo talks a mile a minute, his mid-morning man almost sounds ponderous. Russo is one of the few who doesn’t think sports were born yesterday. When he gets serious, he often talk sports history. In his own inimitable way, Chris makes me smile here in South Florida 1,200 miles from his studio. Russo himself hosts afternoons and others fill the day’s schedule on the eponymous Mad Dog Sports Radio. When Russo split with Francesa after a long and profitable run, Mad Dog was bestowed with a national channel of his own at SiriusXM. But for most of the busy New York day the bridge is impassable, a New York traffic nightmare. See, to get to the WFAN studios where for years he teamed with Mike Francesa, it was impossible to avoid the darn thing. How you can get so angry at something of concrete and steel I don’t know but Chris did. If the bridge were to be sabotaged, the cops would be at Russo’s door in a heartbeat. One of his favorite targets was the inanimate 59th Street Bridge, now named for New York’s esteemed late mayor, Ed Koch. His rants then were hilarious and they still are today. Mad Dog was part of my routine on most days in my earlier iteration in New York. There’s the heady Colin Cowherd, the didactic Jim Rome and the creative Dan Le Batard. Today, I can listen to just about any talk show on SiriusXM. With endless media options, talk shows today waft from everywhere like pot now does from Manhattan streets. I usually chose Mazer and my grades often reflected it. Back from school, our choices were watching reruns of Abbott & Costello, do homework or listen to Bill Mazer. There were three network TV channels in most towns and a couple independents in the bigger ones. Bill would take calls and converse gently with young listeners in an avuncular tone. In New York, the late Bill Mazer hosted the first such sports show in 1964. She is a native of Concord, NH, and currently resides in New Jersey.Two way talk on radio, no matter the format, didn’t emerge until the early ’60s. Lawrence was recently honored as one of The 100 Most Important Sports Talk Radio Hosts in America by Talkers Magazine for 2015, and was the only female personality to make the list. She graduated from Messiah College with bachelor’s degrees in Communications & Accounting, before earning her master’s degree in TV & Radio from Syracuse University. She recently called her first two games on the Westwood One Radio Network, including an NCAA Tournament Regional Final. Lawrence has handled basketball play-by-play and color duties for various radio and TV outlets over the past 15 years, and served as the voice of University of Hartford women’s hoop for six seasons (2008-14). Local radio stops include Providence, RI Lebanon, NH Rochester, NY and Oklahoma City, OK, where she was the first female in state history to pilot her own sports radio talk show. Prior to joining CBS in January 2013, Lawrence spent nine years at ESPN Radio where she was the only regular female host. Listeners also tune in via and the app. A well-traveled veteran and pioneer of sports radio and television, Amy Lawrence is the host of CBS Sports Radio’s late-night program, “After Hours with Amy Lawrence.” The show can be heard weekdays from 1:00-4:00 AM on KROS.
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