Reghi Update

UPDATE: 8-2-06 11:54am
We're getting confirmation from an extremely reliable source inside Cleveland media circles that Michael Reghi has indeed been pushed out of the Cavaliers' play-by-play job on FSN Ohio by Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert. Former Detroit Piston play-by-play man for FSN Detroit and WDIV-TV 4 sports anchor Fred McLeod will indeed take over the Cavaliers play-by-play duties.

In addition to our source, the Cleveland Plain Dealer's Roger Brown is also now reporting the story.

We're slowly getting more information on the rationale behind this decision. As inintially speculated, this is strictly an instance of Gilbert forcing the hand of FSN Ohio. Sources close to the situation tell us that Gilbert actually interned for Fred McLeod years ago in Detroit, hence his interest in having McLeod take over the Cavaliers television play-by-play.

Still, this is not a sound decision by Gilbert and should be met with a great deal of backlash from Cavaliers fans and Reghi supporters.

In a related note, it looks like while the play-by-play portion of Reghi's contract with FSN Ohio has been bought out, he will stay with the cable network in the immediate future. Wednesday morning FSN Ohio announced a new agreement with the Cleveland Browns to broadcast team related programming. Apparently Reghi WILL be a part of FSN Ohio's Browns coverage.

We'll post more as it comes in...