Rich Shertenlieb is getting set for this return to the airwaves. Via his X account, Shertenlieb announced his new show on Boston Classic Rock station 100.7 WZLX will debut on Monday May 20.

Shertenlieb has been off the air since not accepting a new contract offered by Beasley Media Group in November 2023. Just over six months later, the general length of a non-compete clause in media, Shertenlieb will make his long awaited return.

Shertenlieb left what was considered by many one of the top sports radio shows in the country. He and Fred Toucher teamed up for 17 years together including 14 years on 98.5 The Sports Hub.

Shertenlieb announced his move to the iHeartMedia station last week which ended months of speculation about where he would next be heard. A lot of noise was made in March when two different people, the Boston Globe’s Chad Finn and Barstool’s Kirk Minihane had reported Shertenlieb was headed to Sports Hub rival WEEI. Minihane went as far as saying it was “going to be Andy Gresh and Rich Shertenlieb in afternoons” on WEEI but turns out neither had the right information.

“Boy oh boy are there a lot of things we need to talk about the least of which including how non-competes are the worst and should be totally illegal but also about how much I’ve missed you and how I’ve worked every day over the last several months to put together this show and great group of co-hosts well not every day because there were some days when I went to the movies by myself because no one in my family wanted to see ‘Dune 2’ which was a quality film, but I prefer the David Lynch version with Sting and the guy with pus boils all over his face hey how about them Celtics,” Shertenlieb wrote in a video posted on X.

As the NFL prepares to reveal its 2024 schedule on Wednesday night, there has been discussion pertaining to the prime-time football game it will play to begin the season on Friday night. The Week 1 matchup between the Green Bay Packers and Philadelphia Eagles will take place from Corinthians Arena in São Paulo, Brazil broadcast exclusively on Peacock on Friday, Sept. 6 at 8:20 p.m. EST. Much to the chagrin of Daryle “The Guru” Johnson though, the matchup is taking place on a Friday rather than another day of the week.

The Packers-Eagles matchup represents the first NFL game to be played on a Friday during the league’s opening week in 54 years. It will follow an opening night matchup on NBC and Peacock featuring the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs hosting the Baltimore Ravens. The NFL has played just 12 games on a Friday since merging with the AFL ahead of the 1970 season, the most recent of which is the Black Friday Football matchup that was presented on Amazon Prime Video.

Under the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961, antitrust immunity is withdrawn for any professional football telecast if a high school or college football game is being played within 75 miles on a Friday night (after 6 p.m.) or Saturday from the second weekend in September until the second weekend in December.

“That’s for high schoolers; that’s for Happy Hour. Football – and I get it the end of the year all depending on when Christmas or New Year’s Day [are], you get the Friday or Saturday games, but to just come out and do that to the kids, I just don’t like it man,” Johnson said on Monday’s edition of Steiney and Guru on 95.7 The Game. “[Roger] Goodell, just whatever figure it is, if you meet it, you can get the NFL.”

With the rest of the schedule being released on Wednesday night at 8 p.m. EST, the program thought about how many prime time games the San Francisco 49ers should be granted. The team has a plethora of star players, including quarterback Brock Purdy, running back Christian McCaffrey and defensive end Nick Bosa, and has won two NFC Championships in the last five seasons. Last season, the schedule release tabbed the 49ers for five games in prime-time television, which was in a tie for second place in the NFL. The Kansas City Chiefs and Dallas Cowboys led the way with six prime-time games each at the time of the schedule release. Last year, the NFL attained an average of 17.9 million viewers across its regular-season slate of games, an increase of 7% from the 2022 season.

“I’m going seven,” Johnson said. “I think they’re going to be a fixture on Thanksgiving night – that night game, I think they get that.”

“I would like that,” Evan Giddings replied, filling in for Matt Steinmetz. “Honestly I just want to see the Niners in the spotlight as much as possible. We’re going to watch the games obviously – maybe get down to one or two depending – but the Niners deserve, I think, just as many prime time games as the Chiefs even though they lost to them.”.

On April 15, New York Yankees play-by-play announcer John Sterling announced his retirement, effective immediately. He had been behind a microphone for 65 years and as it turns out, he didn’t go a full month without coming back on the air. While not calling a Yankees game, he did do a 90-minute call-in show over the weekend and led WFAN up to its pregame baseball coverage.

“Live From the ‘Evan and Tiki Studio‘ here at WFAN, this is John Sterling and I’m here for an hour and a half before the Yankee game, how noteworthy,” Sterling said as the show began.

“Now, some of you know that I am retired,” he continued. “So, what am I doing here? The General Manager Chris Oliviero…he thought I should come in because some people didn’t have a chance to say goodbye and I’m all for it. But I’m also for, you know I watch every game. Being retired is fabulous. I see every Yankee game every Met game, I listen to every Yankee game and Met game, and then the Knicks and the Rangers and the rest of the basketball and hockey playoffs. Anyway, I don’t miss a game.”

Then he gave out the phone number and the calls poured in.

Sterling, it seemed, would have much preferred to talk Yankees baseball or about the basketball and hockey playoffs. But, as one could imagine, everybody who called in wanted to thank Sterling for his years calling games and many were emotional speaking to him as they shared their thoughts, memories and well-wishes.

One caller asked Sterling what retirement has been like and he said, “Basically living a very easy life…I’ve had a wonderful time. Dinners with friends and family…It’s been wonderful and it’s going to stay wonderful too.”

The show was filled with great memories from both those that called in as well as Sterling.

“I guess it’s time to hit the road jack, huh?” Sterling said as the show wrapped up. “I loved being here. I loved it as much as you can imagine. Think of how lucky I am to hear all these wonderful things for the last hour and a half. Upcoming is Yankee baseball as the Yankees try to make it two in a row against Tampa. And who knows where we will meet each other next but you know what, we are going to meet each other next, I don’t know where, I don’t know when, but I believe it. This is John Sterling. Thank you so much for listening. I am a very lucky person and I wish you all the very, very best.”