Lupica to take on Francesa in afternoon drive

Everybody's favorite condesending, control freak sports writer will be going head-to-head with everybody's favorite condesending, control freak radio host.
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The NY Daily News announced Tuesday afternoon: "Mike Lupica, award-winning Daily News sports columnist and long-time panelist on ESPN's "Sports Reporters," adds another notch to his media belt next month with a daily sports-talk show on WEPN (1050 AM, ESPN Radio)."
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Lupica will only be going against the Sports Pope for one hour a day, however, from 2-3pm. For those of us old enough to remember, Francesa took over his current time slot from Lupica on WFAN.
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But Damn, ESPN Radio, You now have Mike Golic, Mike Greenberg, Michael Kay and now Mike Lupica, that's a a lot of people named Mike.
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Girardi to Francesa: "No soup for you!"

Despite Mike telling listeners that Yankees manager Joe Girardi will be on Mike'd Up daily, that ain't gonna happen, according to Newsday. Honestly, I wouldn't want to talk to Francesa every day either.
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But to hear Girardi tell it, he was misled: "The way it was announced is not the way it was talked about," Girardi said. "It just didn't work out the way we thought it was going to work out."
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But Newsday reports that Girardi will continue to do Mike'd Up every Thursday, as well as his game day segment with Suzy on WCBS.
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Newsday tops it off with this quote: "We had planned to do it every weekday all season but Joe asked to go back to our previous deal of once a week with Mike," WFAN operations manager Mark Chernoff said. "He felt it was going to be too time consuming having to do it every day...We were perfectly understanding of Joe's feelings and were OK with it going back to the old way."
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Francesa will get to the bottom of this...

Controvercial call in the St. John's/Rutgers game. Someone threw the ball in the stands with time left on the clock. But the game ended with a 65-63 St. John's win.
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"This is an embarrasment. This is the worst game of [The referee's] career."
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Mike says he wants the Big East Comish on the phone to explain himself. Bill Simmons is railing Mike on Twitter. The Sports Pope is pissed.

Francesa doesn't want to talk about Carmelo for 15 minutes.

Mike Francesa started Friday's Mike'd Up by saying that he doesn't want to talk abut Carmelo Anthony trade rumors because he's sick of it. Then, he talked about the Carmelo Anthony trade rumors for 15 minutes and, aside from praising Derrick Rose, is still talking about the Carmelo Anthony trade rumors.
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Mike didn't want to talk about the Wilpon's and their Madoff mess, and then he talked about the Wilpon's Madoff mess non-stop for four days straight.
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New reports are that Melo to the Nets trade is done, pending his signing a contract extension. Bob's Blitz reports:
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Nuggets get: 4 1st round picks + Derrick Favors, Devin Harris, Troy Murphy and Ben Uzoh
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Nets get: Anthony, Renaldo Balkman, Chauncey Billups, Melvin Ely and Sheldon Williams.