Jeff Agrest
Deputy sports editor
Jeff Agrest is deputy sports editor at the Chicago Sun-Times.
He’ll be BTN’s analyst alongside Kevin Kugler for the first two quarterfinal games of the Big Ten Tournament on Friday, including Northwestern’s game against Wisconsin.
Yaklich went 47-70 (.402) overall, including 23-52 (.307) in conference play.
Clark’s rookie season could result in record viewership, putting the league in its best position ever to negotiate a new rights deal. Its current one expires after the 2025 season.
Marquee will use the game as a promotional tool, and Weigel will make it known that it’s available to air local teams’ games.
“I had a moment of frustration with the audio issue we were having,” Cronin told the Sun-Times on Saturday, “and I said something I shouldn’t have said, not realizing I had a live mic.”
Missing from this newfangled bundle are CBS and NBC, which have pretty good menus of sports programming. None of the league networks are included, either.
Kamka is known for unearthing nuggets of information. The rest of NBC Sports Chicago’s Sox production crew is back, led by producer Chris Withers.
Schriffen will make his debut Friday, when he’ll call the Sox’ spring-training opener against the Cubs in Mesa, Arizona, on NBC Sports Chicago.
Former skippers Joe Maddon and Terry Francona rewatched the game with open mics at the network’s studio. Neither had watched it since that night in Cleveland. Bob Costas and Tom Verducci co-host the show.