Ryen Russillo Biography
Ryen Russillo is an American sports journalist and sports host born on 5th August 1975 in West Tisbury, Massachusetts. He is a host of the ‘Dual Threat’ on the Ringer Podcast Network. He is a former host of ‘The Russilo Show’ on ESPN.
Ryen Russillo Age
Ryen was born on 5th August 1975 in West Tisbury, Massachusetts (43 years as of 2018)
Ryen Russillo Girlfriend
Ryen has not made his relationship status public, in 2012 he shared a funny tweet stating if he were married, he would call 9am-1pm on Sunday his “married window,” which is the only time on a weekend he would want to pretend to listen.
Ryen Russillo Education
Ryen graduated from the University of Vermont. He was a member of the fraternity ‘Sigma Alpha Epsilon’.
Ryen Russillo Career
Ryen began his career as play-by-play broadcaster for the Trenton Thunder before becoming a host of The Die Hards from 2003 to 2005 in Boston, Massachusetts. His work as a host of ‘The Die Hards’ gained him popularity becoming a commentator for New England Patriots but soon left work due to personal issues with John Dennis who had lefy him a threatening email.
ESPN
During the 2008 season Russillo hosted NBA Sunday, The Baseball Show, and ESPN Radio College GameDay on ESPN radio. He was also a regular host for GameNight and a fill-in host for The Doug Gottlieb Show and All Night with Jason Smith.
In 2007 he was named as the Best Radio Voice by Richard Deitsch due to his work on ESPN Tadio. He praised him as “reasoned approach and knowledge across sports.”
He appeared regularly on Comcast Sportsnet New England shows such as New England Sports Tonight with Gary Tanguay and Greg Dickerson and was also a studio analyst for the Boston Celtics’ television coverage.
Ryen hosted ESPN’s The NBA Today podcast,the network’s #2 most downloaded podcast series, during the NBA season.
In 2009 he was a host of the afternoon show on ESPN Radio. The same year he began co- hosting ‘The Scott Van Pelt Show’ which was later renamed to ‘SVP & Russillo’. Following Van Pelt’s departure the show was renamed to ‘The Russilo Show’.
Russillo Show
In the show Ryen gives his unfiltered take on the biggest stories in the sports world
On 20th December 2017 he announced that he was leaving ESPN to persue other ventures. His last show broadcasted on 22nd December. Since his departure from his show he has appeared across several ESPN platforms including on television with Get Up!. He officially resigned from ESPN in the late August 2018.
Ryen Russillo Exit from ESPN
In December 2017 ESPN announced that Ryen was leaving his show, ‘The Ryen Russillo Show’.
“Here’s the deal: I have been here like I said 12 (years) — 8.5 in this slot — I wasn’t sure I wanted to move slots. Personally, I felt like I wasn’t growing the way I wanted to grow. And that’s OK. I can be wrong there … But the way my contract works is if I was going to move a slot then I could talk to them about like, ‘OK, well, if I’m gonna move again with Will — we’re gonna do 3 to 6.’ Especially with everything that a lot of people at the company had to go through earlier this year, I just said, ‘Is there any way we can talk about an extension?’ ESPN said, ‘Absolutely. We’ll do this.’ And I was offered an extension, and it was the same money that I made now. And in the grand scheme in the way the world works, it’s a lot of money, and I get that. But my days were gonna be different. I was gonna be here on NBA hits for SportsCenter. I was gonna be here like 10 hours a day.
I don’t have a lot of a life now. I don’t really have any balance. I’d be lying if I told you I was super happy lately. I know people who know me really well here, I don’t think they’re entirely surprised by this. So it would have to be something where I also felt like I was growing creatively outside of ESPN Radio — some other entities … I don’t know if that was going to happen.”
Ryen Russillo Podcast
On 24th August 2018 on the “The Bill Simmons Podcast” Ryen announced that he will be launching a weekly podcast on “Dual Threat”, focusing on NFL and college football that will be part of the Ringer Podcast Network.
The podcast was launched on 29th August and will air on Wednesdays throughout football season. In February 2019 Ryen is also set to appear on the “Bill Simmons Podcast” every Monday to discuss the biggest NBA topics for 22 weeks through the 2019 Finals.
Ryen Russillo Salary and Net worth
Ryen earns an annual salary of $95,000 and has an estimated net worth of $1.7 Million.
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