Press release from Triumph books. My only question is, has steve silverman ever wrote a book before this? The relase is funny.

Chicago's biggest voice is now part of the Triumph Books family. Mike North, the longtime radio personality at WSCR-AM who founded sports talk radio in The Windy City, will be the author of his very first book this spring.

SETTLING THE SCORE: TALKIN' CHICAGO SPORTS by North will be Chicago sports fans' first chance to read North's take on a wide variety of Chicago-related topics that he was previously limited by FCC regulations from sharing. North is now unshackled from any regulations and Chicago sports fans will be shocked to see what he has to say about the Cubs' 2008 magical season among other things.

"If you ever thought my show was worth listening to on the radio, wait till you see what I have to say when I'm not forced to look over my shoulder," North said. "Bears have a fearsome defense? I'll tell you why that's a joke."

SETTLING THE SCORE will be in book stores in time for the 2009 baseball season (pub date: April 2009).

"Mike North is a legend in Chicago radio history," said Triumph Books president Mitch Rogatz. "For Mike to pick Triumph Books to partner with to share his personal vision of what Chicago sports is really about is a huge compliment that we are very proud of. They can try to silence Mike North, but anyone who's ever listened to his show or have had the pleasure to know him knows that will never happen."

You want to hear Mike talking sports? Listen Live to The Mike North Webio Show Monday-Friday from 9 -11 a.m. at Wildfirerestaurant.com or the pod cast after 1:00 p.m. each day at northtonorth.com. You can also find Mike's winning sports picks on a daily basis at dontfademe.com.

great way to get back into the radio business, burn more bridges.

On his soon to be 'award winning webio show" he had SS on and they said McNeil ripped off his idea, so they will need to go a different route with the book. If Mike is going to do a tell all book, he better be ready, because there are stories out there about him and if he outs some people, he better be ready to be exposed, the storys about him are endless, thats all I am going to say, but maybe if a certain depaul cheerleader were to join this board, maybe she could share the one I have been told a few times.

RV: Please pm me all the shit you have on North. I won't be telling anyone. I am in freaking Hawaii anyway so your secrets are safe with me. Please, Depaul cheerleader story first and then everything else ranked 1-100

i would love to hear about this please share with the rest of the class

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Mke had Steve Silverman on webio show, the ghost writer for his book, so I gave a listen.

Mike says mac stole his idea for the book, so he has to go a different route with the book, which means it will be mostly pictures of him with famous people and some GED questions.

Steve is just stroking mike and pappy is sucking it all up.

Steve is telling pappy why he loves him so much, "pappy, you will always admit when you are wrong, no one else will do that in this biz". Gun to head time.

Mike is giving pointers on how to never be in talk show hell.....uh, doing a webio show wouldnt be talk show hell?

Steve brings up how mike was right about kyle orton. what the fuck was he right about? did orton make a pro bowl i dont know about, lead the team to a super bowl?

mike totally goes away from the interview with book, brings up emails blasts, how only 17% of his loyal fans know he is doing this show, etc....

steve trys to bring the interview back to the book. pappy seems surprised for some strange reason.

they should name this show " pappy talks about things no one cares about show".

book is going to be about all the people he met, places he been, so bascially his show, just in book form.

mike and steve talking about how pappy admits when he is wrong again. pappy mentions how message boards will call you out if one is wrong, almost a compliment to the message board people..

this interview was like 5 minutes about the book and 20 about how great mike is. I dont know this for sure, but i dont think silverman has ever written a book before, so i dont know why pappy picked him. At least mac has a professional writer helping him out.

I'll give you one: a find of mine was a pr person for Playboy, and was taking a few of the girls from Depaul that had posed to local chicago radio stations. Mike had been part of the group - and was making advances to one of the girls. His form of advances was to offer money to one of them - saying she posed for money, why not go all the way?

Playby never brought any of the women over to the Score ever again - to any show.

I thought I saw a 49er book ghosted by Silverman. Something like "And then Joe said to Steve"...

I think Jiggs has such a book about the Bears, also ghosted.

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I wasnt sure if he had done a book or not, googled it, couldnt find anything.



Do's broads were crazy, tats how we did its on da streets.

No, he didn't.


No, I didn't.


No, I don't.

Do the authors and ghost writers get advances from the publisher to put something like this together?

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His constant talk about himself shows he still doesn't get it. Mr.Self Proclaimed MOST VERSATILE RADIO host think the program directors and radio/tv managers don't know about this scumbag's antics throughout the years. Great message to send to any potential employers, wearing a BEER Hat (drunk), unshaven (Unprofessional), and begging like your some school yard bully (unbalanced) gonna really impress people to give him a gig?

Wait, his book is going to be published by Triumph?


"I wouldn't have anything to do with dat guy. His book is for me.......TO POOP ON!!!"

Rumor has it MAc set up Silverman with an Allen Bros. deal.

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When his book comes out and flops, his excuse will be that the NYT's best seller list is flawed. I bet this dummy doesn't even know what amazon.com is.

Pappy said this is going to be the best book ever made, no one has ever done this type of thing, you know, put ones thoughts into words, onto paper and then sell it has a book, its a first.

No they weren't and Mac himself would admit that North was the principal reason for the early success of the SCORE.

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While I look forward to coloring this book, I'm sure that the word-finds and the mazes will be too hard for me to navigate.

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fixed.

But don't worry Mike, I already know.

[quote="good dolphin]North was the principal reason for the early success of the SCORE.[/quote]

I think I could agree with that...

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I will never agree with that, its more me not being a fan of Jigs and North or at least their act. I was more of a HFC guy and always thought their show was much better then the monsters. North was the centerpiece because he forced it, he had MGT. in hi back pocket and that got him pretty far.

Did that guy have a few stiff drinks before or after he said that?

That's just...shameful. Yech.

No, I don't. He was an established go-fer when he went to the SCORE. Chet would throw him a couple of minutes on air on Fridays.

HFC only gained popularity only after the Monsters reeled the listeners into the station.

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North was the centerpiece of the station because he worked his ass off getting listeners and it showed in his ratings. Think back to those early days. North was on the air 7 days a week and out promoting the station every night. He acquired and retained sponsors like no other. He went out and met the listeners.

Even further, Mike North defined the identity of the station as the populist "voice of the fan". Minus North, the SCORE could have been the same old stuff we were getting from the Chets of the world...a shill for the establishment. However, his popularity showed that a station could be antagonistic to the teams and still get ratings.

All those other guys had something to fall back on. If the radio station did not work, they would still be in the industry. This was North's one and only shot. Every action that he took in the early days showed that he was inspired to make that station succeed...and he did.

You may not like Mike. You may not like where he is at professionally today. However, anyone with any perspective of SCORE history, has to remember the tour de force that was Mike North from the first decade of so of the station.

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Excellent post good dolphin, right on the money.

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Dolphin's narrative, while factually accurate, is a silent indictment on North, the businessman and every single one of his handlers. One would think that efforting to the extent described has to earn the principal in question and equity and profit sharing position in the business.

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I'm sure he has CBS stock. The original owners of the station were bought out for a huge profit. You can see the difference in the station between from before and after CBS ownership.

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GD I understand your points on mike and agree for the most part, but dont think for a second that mike wasnt getting paid when he was out there, i recall a conversation back in the early days i had with mike at a score function. He pointed out a few times that he was on the "clock", so its safe to assume not only was he getting paid, he for sure was getting some coin back on any sponsers he might have bought in, so pappy was taking care of pappy also which i totally understand, i just get annoyed with his side story has changed now to make it look like he was screwed over, which is not even close to being true.

My opinon on the monsters was just personal taste, didnt care for the show, more because of jigs back then to be honest.

Totally agree AF3. Mike is disrespecting the forefathers of sports radio in Chicago. Swirsk and Chet were on the air way before he was.


I also agree with what Good Dolphin posted.

when i think about the history of sport radio in chicago. i look at it as two eras.

pre-1992 era: swirsk,coppock, sports central,the sportswriters on radio, and mike murphy's fantalk on wls

modern era:1992-present: the score,wmvp,wmaq sports huddle(which i liked by the way)

the reason i break it down like this because before january 2nd 1992. if you wanted to talk sports you only had those shows to talk and listen to.

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