SPORTSCASTER Les Grobstein was found dead on Sunday afternoon in his Elk Grove Village home. Grobstein was 69 years old and had been a Chicago radio sportscaster for more than 50 years. How did Les… ...

Scott Grobstein remembers calling in to his father’s radio show. The Illinois high school English teacher grew up with a dad, Les Grobstein, who had a famous voice and a career that ended with a ...

Les Grobstein was one of the few absolute constants in my life as a Chicago sports fan. His recall and passion for the games, players and coaches were unmatched. He was 1-of-1.

Les Grobstein, a legendary figure among the Chicago sports broadcasting community, has died. He was 69. Grobstein, known to his 670 The Score (WSCR 670-AM) radio listeners as “The Grobber ...

Remembering Les Grobstein — and the Lee Elia rant The radio icon’s death brings back memories of the former Cubs manager’s tirade in 1983 and a column-that-wasn’t two decades later.

Sports radio has lost a famed Chicago voice. That would be Les Grobstein, a figure on several stations in the area for over 50 years and a regular overnight host for 670 The Score since 2009.As ...

(WSCR) This week's Crap of the Week goes out to Les Grobstein. This, from Joe B. Sunday night, after the Super Bowl, Les joked with a caller who speculated the reason for the power outage.

Les Grobstein, a longtime Chicago sports radio reporter and talk show host who recorded Lee Elia's famous profanity-laced postgame rant about Cubs fans, has died. Primary Menu Sections.

Les Grobstein’s encyclopedic knowledge of Chicago sports was above and beyond. When I told him I had written a novel about the 1908 Cubs, who won their second straight World Series, ...

Les Grobstein was at an indoor soccer game. “We’re in the Rosemont Horizon watching that soccer game and everyone else is watching ‘Dallas,’” he said 37 years later, the memory clear as day.

Grobstein has no time for robots. (CBS) 670 The Score host Les Grobstein, one of America's leading critics against the idea of implementing robot umpires in baseball, continued to wage war against ...

Happy Les Grobstein Day! The late Chicago sports-radio icon will be celebrated Friday, which would have been his 70 th birthday. Mayor Lori Lightfoot issued a proclamation declaring it Les ...