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13 Facts About Matt Spiegel

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Matt Spiegel served as a host on The Score SportsRadio 670 off and on since 2009.

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Matt Spiegel has serves as a fill-in broadcaster on the Chicago Cubs Radio Network.

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Matt Spiegel grew up in New Jersey as the youngest of five children.

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Matt Spiegel studied broadcasting at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts where he won several sportscasting awards.

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Matt Spiegel enjoyed internships at MLB Productions working on This Week in Baseball, and at WBZ-TV in Boston, working Bob Lobel and Bob Neumeier.

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Matt Spiegel has a son, Rubin, who is named in honor of his deceased mother.

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In 1999, Matt Spiegel was the producer of Sound Opinions, a rock and roll talk show on WXRT, and moved with the show to WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio, where the show still is produced.

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Matt Spiegel moved to Los Angeles in 2007, where he founded the LA edition of Tributosaurus and resumed his career with Sporting News Radio.

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When Dan McNeil left WSCR in 2014, Matt Spiegel became the driver of a new midday show with former Bears long snapper Patrick Mannelly called The Matt Spiegel and Mannelly Show.

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Matt Spiegel was paired with former Kansas City sports radio host and Glencoe native Danny Parkins on The Matt Spiegel and Parkins Show.

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Matt Spiegel hosted his final show with Parkins in March 2018 when Dan Bernstein moved from the afternoon drive slot to take his place while Parkins moved to afternoons with the newly returned Dan McNeil.

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Matt Spiegel was thereafter named host of the Score's weekly Sunday baseball show, Hit and Run.

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Matt Spiegel writes a weekly baseball column for The Daily Herald.