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New Show Name and Home Site

Hey there everyone:

If you are looking for Jon Moncrief and Ray Manukay's Sunday morning sports radio show blog page, the name and location of the page has changed to match the new name of the show.

The show is now called The Sunday Tailgate and can be found by clicking this link:
http://thesundaytailgate.blogspot.com

Be sure to go there for the latest information about the show.

Update coming this week

If for some reason you are checking this page to find out the latest information about the debut of the internet-based sports-talk show known as Sunday Scores and More on the Sports Journey Broadcast Network:

(1) thank you for your patience and diligence
(2) this Wednesday, July 29, all questions will be answered
(3) the name of the show is likely to be changing - more on that in Wednesday's announcement.

Pushed back ome more time

Hey gang - launch has been pushed one more week until Sunday May 31. Details coming this Tuesday...

Guests for May 24 episode are confirmed

So our first episode is due to launch next Sunday, May 24. Remember, the start time is 10AM on the East Coast, 7AM here on the West Coast. Three hours of sports talk. I know I’m excited. I know my co-host, Ray Manukay, is very excited. I know that you’re excited.

And at least two other people are excited; they are my confirmed guests for the opening show. They are Tina Cervasio and Dan Rosen. We’re still efforting to lock down two other guests, and hope to have more about that when it becomes official (or not) next week.

So, a little bit about our guests:
Ladies first – Tina Cervasio is currently an anchor and reporter working for MSG Network in New York. She covers the New York Knicks and the Red Bull New York soccer team for the network, and also handles studio hosting duties as well. The pride of Nutley, New Jersey, Tina graduated from the University of Maryland in 1996, and has been working ever since then with various sports television and radio networks.


She is best known around the country for her three seasons as a sideline reporter on NESN for Boston Red Sox baseball. She spent three seasons in that assignment, including the team’s 2007 World Series championship campaign. She also previously worked for such entities as NFL Sunday Ticket, ESPN2, Sunshine Network, WFAN, and the CBS affiliate in New York.

In the interest of full disclosure, we’ve been friends for six years now. We first met when I was writing and producing a pilot for a weekly sports television series in northern New Jersey. She had just started providing sports updates on Imus in the Morning, and couldn’t have been more energetic about what we were doing.

We then worked on several projects together, including her writing a feature piece for That’s Life magazine on Jason Kidd in 2004, hosting a red-carpet movie premiere I helped organize that spring for the Jon Doscher film Remedy, and again in a ‘special correspondent’ role for that TV show which went from pilot to series, North Jersey Sports Showcase. Someday soon, I’ll dust some of those segments from that show from off the shelves and post some clips for posterity.

Anyways, Tina is very knowledgeable on a variety of sports topics, and I am very pleased that she will be one of my first guests on the show.

Meanwhile, I’m also pleased that Dan Rosen is going to jump on-board with us on the first show. I’ve known Dan for the same amount of time, and ironically the relationship started through North Jersey Sports Showcase.


The primary sponsor of that show was the Bergen Record newspaper, located in Hackensack. As part of their title sponsorship role, they provided our show with access to their high school writing staff. This meant not only getting the chance to get to know Dan, who was covering high school football for the paper at the time, but other great writers from that paper such as Mark Czerwinski and Art Stapleton.

Dan was always very well prepared for any on-air segment we did with him, and also very knowledgeable about which games we should cover each week. Dan was also very easy going ‘off camera’ and could talk about any number of sports. This included hockey, for which he also covered the high school variety for the paper.

Today, he’s a staff writer for NHL.com, and his work continues to be top-notch, filled with the right touch of opinion and fact, and delivered in as smooth a style as watching Wayne Gretzky skate with a puck in the good old days. With the Stanley Cup playoffs now reaching the conference finals stage, Dan will be able to help us get a better understanding of which teams will play for the Stanley Cup and why, as well as maybe a peek ahead to the draft.

As I said, we’ve got a couple of guests that we’re hoping will be able to join us for the first show, in the hopes of making it one to remember for a long time. Nevertheless, if Tina and Dan are the only two guests, it will still allow the show to be memorable in its own right.

Next week, I’ll post more info about the show, including official profiles of all of us working on the show. I’m also being told by our network that I will be making a few promotional guest appearances to hype our launch for next Sunday. Exciting times to be sure, and I look forward to sharing them with you.

May 24 now new launch date

The good news is you'll be able to hear my friend Ray Manukay and I every Sunday morning on the internet-based radio show Sunday Scores and More. The not so good news is that you have to wait one additional week for our first show.

This posting confirms that our show will officially begin on Sunday, May 24. As a reminder, it will air on the Sports Journey Broadcast Network. The air times are 10AM-1PM Eastern, 7-10AM Pacific.

We'll have much more info in the days between now and show lanuch, so be sure to check back here for more updates as we have them.

Also, be sure to check out our companion blog site for info about my nightly sports talk show, SportsRock, launching June 1st.

guest spot with Lake Lewis May 6

So this afternoon, I took some time to talk NHL playoff hockey with my good friend Lake Lewis on Sports Journey.

Click here to listen to an archive of the show. I appear at the top of the third hour of the program, but I encourage you to listen to it in its entirety.

Guests we can confirm

So there are three guests that we can confirm will appear on the first episode of Sunday Scores and More as part of our debut show on May 17. The other two will need to be confirmed next week, as we closer to the launch date. At this point in our development, I don't want to promise you, our potentially loyal listener, any guests unless I can confirm them with absolute certainty.

Having said that, these are three guests that I can confirm for our madien voyage:
- Tina Cervasio, former NESN reporter covering the Red Sox, now at MSG Network in New York. We'll talk NBA, baseball, and even MLS soccer.
- Dan Rosen, columnist for NHL.com. We'll look at the Stanley Cup playoffs up-to-the-moment
- Pat Gallen, host of Basketball Round-Up on Sports Journey. We'll catch up on the NBA playoffs. Pat also covers the Philadelphia Phillies for Examiner.

Two bigger names are still being confirmed - we'll announce them here so watch for it soon...

The Countdown is on for May 17

Our first show will air on Sunday, May 17 at 10AM Eastern, 7AM Pacific. My co-host is Ray Manukay. We will be announcing the guests for our first 3-hour radio show within the next few days, so be sure to check back here frequently for our upcoming guest list, more details on them and the topics we'll be talking about, and how you can get involved in the show!

Click here to listen to the network that we'll be appearing on: the Sports Journey Broadcast Network.

More to come...

Coming Soon

Be sure to check back here for the launch of the sports talk internet radio program called SUNDAY SCORES AND MORE on the Sports Journey Broadcast Network