{"id":10874,"date":"2016-03-23T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T14:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=10874"},"modified":"2016-03-24T08:20:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T13:20:25","slug":"giangreco-pays-off-hairy-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2016\/03\/23\/giangreco-pays-off-hairy-bet\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Giangreco pays off hairy bet"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Mark<\/a>

<\/a> Mark Giangreco<\/p><\/div>\n

Never let it be said that Mark Giangreco isn\u2019t a man of his word.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday the hirsute sports anchor at ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7 <\/a>made good on a sports bet and submitted to some creative manscaping live on the radio.<\/p>\n

Giangreco, 63, a graduate of the University of Dayton, lost to Chicago Bulls beat reporter Nick Friedell, a Syracuse University alum, on a first round March Madness tournament game last Friday between the two schools. Syracuse won 70-51.<\/p>\n

\"Mark<\/a>

Mark Giangreco<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cI have to tell you, the second I made that bet I was sweating,\u201d Giangreco said.<\/p>\n

As payment, Giangreco had a Syracuse \u201cS\u201d shaved into his chest live on ESPN Radio sports\/talk WMVP AM 1000. <\/a>While cameras rolled and a crowd gathered outside the station\u2019s State Street studio window, listeners were regaled with the play-by-play by ESPN 1000 host Marc Silverman. \u201cThis is way<\/em> bigger than Giangreco had ever anticipated for the S,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

When it was over, an admittedly \u201cbuzzed and confused\u201d <\/a>Giangreco said: \u201cI will never write another check to the University of Dayton as long as I live. Ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1987, sportscaster Chet Coppock made good on a bet with Sun-Times columnist Michael Sneed by pushing a peanut across the Michigan Avenue Bridge with his nose. Giangreco appears to have topped that one on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Never let it be said that Mark Giangreco isn\u2019t a man of his word. On Tuesday the hirsute sports anchor at ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7 made good on a sports bet and submitted to some creative manscaping live on the radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10874"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10887,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10874\/revisions\/10887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}