Mike Murphy (sports radio personality)
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Mike Murphy is an American sports radio personality, who hosts The Mike Murphy Show Monday through Friday, from Noon to 2:00pm CST, on Chicago's Sports Radio 670 The Score.
Mike "Mad Bugler" Murphy was a founding member of the Left Field Bleacher Bums, a group of dedicated Chicago Cubs fans who sat in the left field bleachers of Wrigley Field and rallied the team in the late 1960s and 70s.[1]
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[edit] Career
Mike Murphy started broadcasting in April of 1990 for WLS, a talk radio station in Chicago, hosting a weekly show on Sunday nights called "Fan Talk". Murph would host this show for 18 months, before he was approached by WXRT, a Chicago rock radio station, which was founding a new sports talk radio station, The Score. Murph originally hosted a weekend show on WSCR, but eventually moved to weekdays, where he hosted "The Mike Murphy Show".[2]
[edit] The Mike Murphy Show
The Mike Murphy Show can be heard Monday through Friday, from Noon to 2:00pm CST, on Sports Radio 670 The Score. Segments include:
- What's Your Beef? sponsored by Brown's Chicken; Callers voice what's "beefing" them in the world of sports. The best "beefs" deemed by Murph win gift certificates to Brown's.
- Tool Of The Week sponsored by RentalMax; Callers voice what figure in the world of sports who has, through their actions or words, proved to be the biggest "tool" in the past week. The figure with the most votes is deemed "tool of the week".
- Stat Of The Week with John Dewan; Chicago sports statistician John Dewan, owner of Baseball Info Solutions, calls Murph every Tuesday to give an insightful sports statistic.
Murph is known for being a die-hard Cub fan, which often puts him at odds with the often White Sox-dominated format of WSCR, which broadcasts every White Sox game, and is officially known as the "radio home of the Chicago White Sox". Despite being a Cub fan, Murph balances his show with equal amounts of Cubs and Sox talk, and fans of both teams call his show daily.
The Mike Murphy Show's theme song is sung by Howard Berk.
