Today is Chet Coppock Chet's Essays, Interviews and Press Clippings... UPDATE 3/31/2009 -- Crain's Personnel File: Chet Coppock. In an effort to gain some insights about the people who move and shake the sports business and media world in Chicago and elsewhere, we present the "Personnel File." The first participant (victim?) is Chet Coppock, one of the most colorful personalities this town has ever seen. Read the complete file on Chet UPDATE 5/21/2008 -- COPPOCK SPEAKS OUT! CC chats up southside memories and offers his thoughts on the current White Sox broadcast team on whitesoxinteractive.com with his long time pal, sports journalist Mark Liptak. Spoiler Alert! Coppock says the Sox will grab AL Central glory in September with a total of 89 Ws. Check out the full interview with Chet! UPDATE 12/26/2006 -- When Chicago Tribune correspondent Charles Leroux published a profile of Chet Coppock back in April 2006 (see below or click here), Chet was experiencing what he called "downtime": i.e., the phone wasn't ringing with job offers. A few months later, Chet evaluated the impact of the article... "The piece essentially sent out the alert: the fat kid is available. And the fat kid has lost 46 pounds!" Read full Tempo update here! UPDATE 11/16/2006 -- It's been almost 20 years since Chet Coppock pushed a peanut across the Michigan Avenue Bridge with his nose after losing some dumb sports bet. Well, the big-mouth sportscaster is at it again: But this time, the payoff will involve Coppock parading up and down State Street wearing nothing but a thong under his fur coat, Featured in Robert Ferder's Sun-Times column on 11/16/2006! UPDATE 7/5/2006 -- He's the Comeback Kid, the Blast from the Past, the irrepressible, one-of-a-kind, how ya doin' everybody host-with-the-most, the Human Rolodex, jack of all trades, the Ron Popeil of Chicago sports radio, the master of the one-minute question, the king of the glad-handers -- the dapper, the flamboyant, the outspoken, the one and only ... Chet Coppock! Featured in the Sun-Times "Quick Hits" column on 7/5/2006! UPDATE 4/5/2006 -- Not to long after his departure from Sporting News Radio, Chet Coppock was featured in the Tempo section of the April 5th Chicago Tribune, in a fantastic piece by acclaimed Trib correspondent Charles Leroux. The profile was titles "HAM TO THE BONE: Chet Coppock -- the Mouth of the Midway -- is down but not talked out"... Read it here! UPDATE 12/5/2003 -- The Cubs suffered another heartbreaking finish in 2003, but what else is new? How about Rich Wolfe's For Cubs Fans Only, a new book which takes a look at the fans who follow the lovable losers on the Northside of Chicago. More importantly, Chet Coppock has written an essay for the book... Read it here! UPDATE 9/9/2003 -- What is this photo??? At first glance, it looks like Chet is auditioning for the role of a private investigator in a 1950s flick. However, it is actually a photo from the 1994 book Great Chicago Stories -- a very cool collection of portraits and stories that profiles sixty of Chicago's most notable figures. Read Chet's essay from the book....