Chet Coppock was an institution in the Chicago sports broadcasting world. A graduate of New Trier High School in Winnetka, IL, Coppock held quite a few positions at various radio and media companies ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chet Coppock, a Chicago-based sports broadcaster known locally as “The Godfather of Sports” in the 1980s, has died. He was 70.His ...

In a ChicagoBears.com series, Chicago sports media icon Chet Coppock looks back at the games of the franchise's 1963 championship season. In a ChicagoBears.com series, Chicago sports media icon Chet ...

The last time I spoke to Chet Coppock was in January. I had posted yet another shameless plug for my 1908 Cubs historic novel—this time, for a change, on LinkedIn, which plays Burger King to ...

To know Chet Coppock was to get swept up in the presence of a literal and figurative giant. The 6-foot-6 sportscasting legend dispensed brash opinions and hilarious anecdotes, all the while guzzling ...

ON A RAINY DAY AND MONDAY, Chicago bid farewell to Chet Coppock. At an elegant church on the edge of Lincoln Park, seven eulogists spoke, including Mark Giangreco, John McDonough, radio baseball ...

Legendary Chicago sportscaster Chet Coppock passed away on Wednesday due to injuries he suffered as a passenger in a car accident on April 11th outside of Hilton Head, S.C. He was 70 years old.

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Sorry about the autoplay. All right, how ya' doin', everybody?! Chet Coppock used to be the king of sport talk-radio in Chicago. He has been marginalized in recent years — well, the past 20 or so — ...

No matter where Chet Coppock’s half-century-long sports broadcasting career took him, he remained firmly rooted in his North Shore upbringing — and motivated by some of the big names he met along the ...

Dollars and sense is a regular sports media and business column. Recently, David Kaplan took the long way through the East Bank Club, walking purposefully through the grill room. He was looking for ...