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From Dan Steinberg in the DC Sports Bog..... But help may be on the way. A new Baltimore sports talker will launch this coming Monday, Fox 1370 Sports Radio, with old friend Jerry Coleman on board as sports director. Coleman will host an afternoon drive show from 3-6, tentatively called "Sports With Coleman," but much of the other content will be syndicated, at least initially. And that means Steve Czaban and Scott Linn's "First Team on Fox" should be available locally, at least to many of D.C.'s suburban Marylanders. (The station has a 50,000-watt daytime signal, according to Coleman.) For the time being, this puts Baltimore ahead of D.C., 3-1, in the number of sports talkers, which doesn't speak particularly highly of D.C. fandom, although it's fair to speculate that both markets will be back to two sports talkers eventually. Czaban, of course, continues to co-host the Sports Reporters afternoons on the new ESPN 980, but anyone who wants to hear him on the air in the morning will now have to tune in to a rival station from a rival city featuring a rival national network, which all feels very odd. Will he be able to promote his morning show while on the air in the afternoon? Unclear. I just chatted with Czaban, and asked what it's like to have his local employer promoting his competition, the Mikes.

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I don't know about you, but I feel like everytime I watch a college football game with Brent Musburger, I am watching with my cool uncle. Uncle Brent.

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All along, when my home station, Sportstalk 980, was being boarded at swordpoint bought out by our Beloved Supreme Football Leader Dan Snyder, I was puzzled by one pretty key aspect of the deal. How was this going to fix his "signal problems?" Answer: It hasn't. And it won't.

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Brian "Boom Goes the Dynamite" Collins has a job. Doing sports on TV. Could it have worked out any other way? I say not.

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So much for the phrase: "Eat your Wheaties." Michael Phelps has signed a deal to appear on the cover of boxes of Frosted Flakes this fall, bucking the decades old tradition of Olympic and other athletes appearing on Wheaties: aka "The Breakfast of Champions."

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