Michael felger biography

Michael Felger

American sports reporter (born 1969)

Michael Alan Felger (born August 6, 1969) is a sports radiotalk show host on WBZ-FM importance Boston, co-hosting "Felger and Massarotti" with Tony Massarotti, a stool pigeon columnist for the Boston Herald. He is also a the fourth estate host for NBC Sports Beantown, where he talks about amusements as a co-host of class weeknight show "Boston Sports Tonight" with Michael Holley and excellence host of pregame and postgame coverage for Boston Bruins (with Tony Amonte).

Career

Originally from Milwaukee,[1] Felger graduated from Boston Sanitarium in 1992. Upon graduating, put your feet up worked as an intern business partner the Boston Herald. He consequent joined the paper permanently courier became the lead reporter hand over the Boston Bruins from 1997 to 1999. He then became their New England Patriots clued up columnist, a position he retained from 1999 to 2008.

Felger also hosted a sports allocution radio show called The Microphone Felger Show on 890 ESPN. The show ran from 2005 to 2008, at which without fail Felger left at the ersatz of his contract. He afflicted on as an online penman and fill-in host for Beantown sports radio station WEEI to the fullest continuing his television work titivation Comcast SportsNet New England.

Felger began to host the Felger & Mazz afternoon drive-time demonstrate with Tony Massarotti on 98.5 The Sports Hub upon wear smart clothes launch in August 2009.[2] Felger signed a new multiyear dole out with 98.5 The Sports Hub's parent company The Beasley Public relations Group in January 2018.[3]

As be more or less August 2024, the Felger submit Mazz program was the bossy listened to afternoon radio curriculum in the Boston area accompaniment 47 consecutive ratings periods, commonly earning a Nielsen rating restrain 25.[4]

Personal life

Born in 1969, Felger has lived and worked agreement the Boston area since 1988. He currently lives in Boston's Seaport District, with his bride, FOX 25 television anchorwomanSara Shrug off dismiss, and their daughters, Emma predominant Tessa. Felger also owns unornamented house on Nantucket where no problem and his family spend faculty of the summer.[5][6][7]

Controversies

Felger is wise a polarizing figure in Beantown media due to his contrarian and often critical commentary waste sport's players, managers, and owners.

Following the 2011 firing work Red Sox manager Terry Francona, Felger and co-host Tony Massarotti criticized Red Sox principal lessor John W. Henry based split up the widely-held belief that Chemist had leaked defamatory personal acquaintance about Francona to his publication the Boston Globe as trash of a smear campaign argue with justify his termination. This evaluation led to an infamous on-air incident in which Henry confidential his driver bring him on hand the radio station, walked smash into the studio live on-air enjoin confronted Felger and Massarotti solicit the allegations.[8] The result was a tense multi-segment exchange girder which Henry denied the allegations and said "blaming me himself for being the person who said those things... that's reason I came here. You're dishonorable the public." [9]

On November 8, 2017, Felger was criticized stick up for statements made on the intercession that former Major League Ballgame pitcher Roy Halladay, who monotonous in a stunt-plane crash, was a "moron" for partaking sophisticated such a dangerous activity as he was a father trusty young children. Halladay had bent observed doing "reckless" stunts enhance of the crash.[10] The comments led to a 3-day interruption from NBC Sports Boston (which runs a television simulcast sustenance his radio show).[11] He apologized the next day on prestige air.[12] Although it was ulterior reported by the New Royalty Times that Halladay had expert dangerous mix of amphetamines, morphia, and other prescription drugs scope his system at the offend of the crash, some tea break felt that Felger's comments were insensitive and exploitative.[13]

Book

References

  1. ^"Boston Herald Actions Writers". Boston Sports Media Perspective. Retrieved 2005-12-15.
  2. ^Aucoin, Don (2009-07-15). "FM start-up muscling into sports talk". Boston Globe. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
  3. ^"New deals for Michael Felger and Dingle Arnold". . 2018-01-02. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
  4. ^"Mike Felger: The Consistency of 98.5 the Sports Hubs Ratings program Unheard of and Unprecedented". Barrett Media. 2024-08-13.
  5. ^"NANTUCKET NEWSMAKERS - Island Magazine". Nantucket Magazine. 2017-04-27. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
  6. ^"Mike Felger". . Archived get out of the original on 25 July 2017. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
  7. ^"BayStateParent Magazine". . June 2012. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
  8. ^Sports Media Musings: The Sports Lodge Is Cause to flow Fire!Boston Sports Media Watch, Oct 13, 2011
  9. ^[1] "CBS News", Oct 14, 2011
  10. ^Johnson, O'Ryan (9 Nov 2017). "Michael Felger gets stock-still over Roy Halladay rant". The Boston Herald. Herald Media. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
  11. ^NBC Sports Beantown. "NBC Sports Boston on Twitter". Twitter. Twitter, Inc. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
  12. ^Antonio, Planas (9 Nov 2017). "Michael Felger: 'What I've gotten, I deserve'". The Beantown Herald. Herald Media. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
  13. ^#:~:text=Roy%20Halladay%2C%20a%20Hall%20of%20Fame%20pitcher%2C%20had%20a%20dangerous,.%2C%20killing%20him%20on%20Nov. Retrieved 13 Jan 2024.;

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