{"id":20676,"date":"2019-02-06T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=20676"},"modified":"2019-02-06T06:00:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T12:00:20","slug":"free-agent-barry-rozner-cuts-ties-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2019\/02\/06\/free-agent-barry-rozner-cuts-ties-score\/","title":{"rendered":"Free agent Barry Rozner cuts ties with The Score"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Barry Rozner (Photo: Joe Lewnard\/Daily Herald)<\/p><\/div>\n

As expected, Daily Herald<\/a> sports columnist Barry Rozner has severed ties with WSCR 670-AM<\/a> after 10 years as a prominent weekend and fill-in personality at the Entercom sports\/talk station.<\/p>\n

Rozner confirmed that he\u2019s stepping down as host of \u201cHit & Run,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0which airs from 9 a.m. to noon Sundays during baseball season. He made it official after conferring Tuesday with Mitch Rosen, operations director of The Score.<\/p>\n

A little more than two weeks ago Rozner acknowledged here<\/a> that he was strongly considering calling it quits. As noted at the time, he\u2019d filled in for weekday hosts on The Score more often than anyone else over the years, but had been passed over for promotion to a full-time position three times.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what\u2019s next. I\u2019m not certain there is a next,\u201d Rozner told me. \u201cI\u2019ve heard from a few radio and TV outlets, but haven\u2019t spoken to anyone yet. Out of fairness, I wanted to speak with Mitch first. I\u2019m not in any hurry and with spring only about five months away, my sand wedge needs immediate attention.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know. I\u2019ve been at this radio thing for more than 20 years. I go back to the Belmont days at The Score. WCKG with Steve Dahl. WGN. The last 10 years at The Score. I\u2019ve enjoyed all of it, but it\u2019s a funny business. TV\u2019s the same. We\u2019ll see what happens.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn any case, if I may, thanks so much to the listeners who have expressed their feelings the last couple of weeks. It\u2019s quite surprising and really warms the heart,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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670 The Score<\/p><\/div>\n

In an email to The Score\u2019s staff, Rosen had nothing but praise for Rozner, calling him \u201ca great teammate for the past 10 years,\u201d and wishing him the best.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether an early morning wakeup call from me for fill-in purposes or long term co-hosting, Barry was always there to help,\u201d Rosen said. \u201cI look forward to working together with Barry again down the road.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rosen added that he and \"Hit & Run\" co-host Joe Ostrowski would work on finding a replacement for Rozner.<\/p>\n

Now in his 35th year at the Daily Herald, Rozner continues as the paper\u2019s premier sports columnist.<\/p>\n

Tuesday's comment of the day:<\/a>\u00a0Bruce Beckman:<\/strong> I understand the \"Bozo\" tapes were discovered after the glaciers receded in Greenland, exposing them for the first time since the dawn of television.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As expected, Daily Herald sports columnist Barry Rozner has severed ties with WSCR 670-AM after 10 years as a prominent weekend and fill-in personality at the Entercom sports\/talk station. Rozner confirmed that he\u2019s stepping down as host of \u201cHit & Run,\u201d\u00a0which airs from 9 a.m. to noon Sundays during baseball season. He made it official... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/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\/20676"}],"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=20676"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20683,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20676\/revisions\/20683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}