Mike Francesa to host biweekly podcast for BetRivers sportsbook

Mike Francesa
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The Sports activities Pope has a brand new pulpit.

Mike Francesa has signed a take care of the BetRivers sportsbook to do a biweekly podcast entitled “The Mike Francesa Present,” in response to Barrett Sports activities Media.

Francesa can be reunited along with his longtime producer Brian Monzo. The present, in the intervening time a minimum of, can be audio solely although a video element may come later. Francesa will even narrate commercials for the sportsbook.

Francesa was a stalwart of WFAN afternoon drive for greater than 30 years, first in partnership with Chris “Mad Canine” Russo, and later solo. He briefly retired in 2017, returning only a few months later till he retired from radio once more in 2020.

Francesa’s contract with WFAN expired on the finish of 2021, and for those who had been a bettor it was probably he would land with a sportsbook after doing NFL picks, amongst others, on his radio present for years. The 68-year-old Francesa additionally owns a horse, Excessive Oak, who may compete on the this 12 months’s Kentucky Derby.

As sports activities playing legalization has continued to proliferate throughout America, sportsbooks like Rivers, DraftKings, FanDuel, BetMGM and Caesar’s have infused the sports activities content material trade with money in hopes of changing reside sports activities and sports activities media customers into bettors.

An official announcement is predicted to be made Tuesday morning round 9am ET, in response to the report.