Junkies on Radio
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED -- Scorecard - Monday, July 12
America’s hot new radio show is called The Sports Junkies, but its four twenty-something hosts often go long stretches without mentioning sports. The Junkies -- John Auville, Eric Bickel, Jason Bishop and J.P. Flaim, four boyhood buddies from Bowie, MD. -- were watching a cable-access talk show when Bickel’s mother-in-law said, “You guys could do that.” She was right. Within a year the Junkies were a hit with a daily three-hour call-in show on WJFK-FM in Washington, D.C., and in May they went national with a 50-city syndication deal.
“We don’t claim to know everything,” says Flaim. But that doesn’t keep the Junkies from sounding off on everything from the Redskins ownership to the Wizards’ woes to their own expanding adult-movie collections. “For the last year or so we’ve had a running argument over who would win a fight between a shark and a crocodile,” says Flaim. “Three of us say the shark, but Jason keeps saying a 25-foot crocodile would win. We argued about it for half an hour the other night. Even guests have a hard time sticking to sports. “Paul Azinger came to the studio to talk about the Kemper Open,” says Flaim, “but ended up talking about pants.”
The Sports Junkies’ dramatic on-air highlight came in December 1997 when Flaim, a Temple Law School graduate, opened an envelope containing the results of his bar exam. “Listeners had been placing bets for and against me,” he says. “I failed, but it was good radio.” Flaim passed the bar the second time, but he has no immediate plans to give up his current gig to practice law. “We’re four friends talking about sports for a living,” he says. “You can’t beat it.”
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