Matt Spiegel’s sports resume
Since 2009, new Daily Herald baseball columnist Matt Spiegel has co-hosted “McNeil and Spiegel” on WSCR 670-AM radio, “The Score,” from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. weekdays. He also co-hosts the station’s baseball show, “Hit and Run,” Sunday mornings at beginning at 9 a.m. with Daily Herald sports columnist Barry Rozner.
The decade before that, Matt was a nationally syndicated talk show host on the Sporting News Radio Network. He was heard on more than 100 affiliates and on XM satellite radio.
Some of the highlights of his time at Sporting News:
타 Anchoring the network’s live coverage of baseball’s steroids hearings in Congress.
타 Reporting live from The 2005 World Series at Chicago’s U.S. Cellular Field.
타 Writing and voicing “The Year in Review,” a much heralded annual feature.
타 Writing baseball columns for Sporting News magazine, and for www.sportingnews.com.
In 2011, Matt was a Chicago baseball columnist for USA Today Sports Weekly.
For seven years before joining Sporting News Radio, Matt was a host, producer and reporter for WSCR 670-AM in Chicago. While there, he had a chance to cover Mike Ditka’s final days with the Bears and the entire second three-peat for Michael Jordan’s great Chicago Bulls teams.
Matt’s first job in sports media was as an intern for Major League Baseball Productions, where he worked on “This Week in Baseball” for Mel Allen’s final two years with the show. Matt fetched Mel coffee and lunch every Thursday for two summers. While matriculating at Emerson College in Boston, Matt won several sportscasting award and went to Fenway 30 times a season.
Matt was the founding producer of “Sound Opinions,” the world’s only Rock and Roll talk show, hosted then by Jim DeRogatis of the Sun Times and Greg Kot of the Tribune. He produced their two years of television on WTTW-11 as well. Matt also was a DJ at WXRT-FM.
Matt is the founder and lead singer of Tributosaurus, one of Chicago’s hottest musical acts, becoming a different band every month at Martyrs’ on the North Side since 2002.
He can be followed on Twitter @mattspiegel670.