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newsday.com - 8/14/2008
Chris "Mad Dog" Russo has left WFAN -- Newsday.com
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wo weeks shy of its 19th anniversary, the "Mike and the Mad Dog'' show is no more. WFAN announced early Thursday evening that Chris Russo is leaving the company, making Mike Francesa the sole host of the popular afternoon drive time show. "Mike and Chris pioneered the genre more than 18 years ago and have shaped the sports talk format into what it is today," WFAN operations director Mark ...

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Mad Dog Leaves ‘Mike and the Mad Dog’ on WFAN
Bumpshack.com — ... Chris ‘Mad Dog’ Russo who co-hosted the popular New York sports talk show ‘Mike and the Mad Dog’ is leaving WFAN to pursue other interests.?? Russo had teamed with Mike Francesa for almost nineteen years on the highly rated afternoon radio program. ...

That's a bad job, Mikey: Mike and the Mad Dog no more
What's Alan Watching? — ... And yet, my dislike of them as a team doesn't remotely equal how I feel about them whenever they work solo -- which they will be doing permanently, now that WFAN has severed ties with the Dog. ...

WFAN Lets Mad Dog Off the Leash
Gothamist — ... , sports fans around the Big Apple will now have to turn elsewhere for an afternoon shot in the arm as Chris "Mad Dog" Russo will no longer be on-air to give his daily intro call of "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAnnnnnnnnnnnd good afternoon, everybody! How are you today?" Last night WFAN announced that Russo will leave the station immediately with no farewell show, thus breaking the most successful duo in sports talk radio. ...

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Mike and the Mad Dog Hosts Mike Francesa (right) and Chris Russo (left) Chris Russo has announced that he is leaving WFAN-AM, breaking up the sports talk giant’s “Mike and the Mad Dog” show after nearly 19th years. Mike Francesa will become the solo host of the afternoon drive program, and WFAN announced Thursday night that it [...]
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I've had the sports-radio yakfest Mike & The Mad Dog on for most of this afternoon, and it's been distractingly compelling, thanks to today's show being the last of the program's current iteration. The show, an afternoon-long chat about sports between sorta-smarmy Yankee partisan Mike Francesa and frenetic Giants fan Chris "Mad Dog" Russo, had been on New York's WFAN for 19 years, and served ...
'Sad Dog' Phones In Good Bye to FANs — Gothamist
After being told by WFAN that he could not have a farewell show, Chris "Mad Dog" Russo found his way onto the air yesterday with an emotional twenty-five minute phone call to co-host Mike Francesa. Francesa said he took matters into his own hands by bucking station brass's wishes and bringing Russo on to discuss the conclusion of the Mike and the Mad Dog program with Russo's announced ...
Chris 'Mad Dog' Russo Leaves WFAN-AM — FOXNews.com
Chris Russo has left WFAN-AM, breaking up the sports talk giant's "Mike and the Mad Dog" show two weeks short of its 19th anniversary.
Chris 'Mad Dog' Russo out at WFAN (AP) — Yahoo! News: Gossip/Celebrity News
AP - NEW YORK (AP) — Chris Russo has left WFAN-AM, breaking up the sports talk giant's "Mike and the Mad Dog" show two weeks short of its 19th anniversary.
Chris 'Mad Dog' Russo out at WFAN — Latest News on omg!
AP - NEW YORK (AP) — Chris Russo has left WFAN-AM, breaking up the sports talk giant's "Mike and the Mad Dog" show two weeks short of its 19th anniversary.