Earlier this week, during the Ask Me Anything segment the new 94 WIP morning show of Joe DeCamara and Jon Ritchie were asked who would win a triple tag-team wrestling match between DeCamara/Ritchie, Hugh Douglas and Joe Giglio, and Jon Marks and Ike Reese.

In response, DeCamara said it was clear the morning show would win, and called Ike Reese a liability.

“Jon Ritchie? Starter. Hugh Douglas? Starter. Ike? Special teams guy,” DeCamara said. “I’m not trying to be rude. I love Ike, I’m just saying. He was a little light. A great backup, but the thing about being a backup is that you’re always a backup.”

DeCamara later said “I’m like Howard Cosell. I call it like it is.”

During the station’s afternoon show, Reese fired back by saying what DeCamara’s sports fantasies have consisted of — like a bit earlier this week where he took part in a free-throw shooting contest against former St. Joseph’s star Jameer Nelson — has been Reese’s professional life while the morning host was too “unathletic and frankly uncool” to achieve.

“You get to be on WIP now and get to shoot free throws with Jameer Nelson and other Big 5 athletes. You get to go down to fantasy camp and be around former Phillies players. Joe, your fantasy life is the life I’ve lived for the last 30-plus years. You were the one cheering for me. You realize that, right?

“Whether I was out there playing a backup role on third down or special teams, you were cheering for me. Remember that, Joe. This platform has finally allowed you to live the life you’ve dreamed of when I’ve been doing this 30-plus years. Not to mention, I retired and now I’m doing what you love, doing better than you.”

DeCamara and Ritchie played the audio of Reese’s comments Thursday morning. Co-host Rhea Hughes jokingly called DeCamara’s comments “disrespectful”.

“I’ll say this,” DeCamara said. “I was prepared to give Ike a standing ovation. The last two seconds? I don’t know.”

Hans Olsen spent five years in Provo as a member of the BYU football team. He started on the defensive line for his final two seasons and as a senior was named second team all Mountain West. Now, the Cougars are moving into the Big 12 and Olsen is coming along for the ride.

The school announced on Thursday that he will be the new radio analyst. He replaces Riley Nelson, who resigned in January and will work with Greg Wrubell, who has been the voice of the Cougars since 2001.

Calling games runs in the Olsen family. Hans is the nephew of Merlin Olsen, who worked as an analyst for CBS and NBC after a Hall of Fame NFL career.

“I’ve always loved what my Uncle Merlin did in the booth, and I had a dream to see what it was like,” Olsen said. “I’m grateful to Brian Estridge and Bowl Season Radio for giving me the chance to pursue that dream, and I’m beyond thrilled to now work with Greg, Mitch, and Jason to bring my passion for the game to the BYU fans I played for years ago.”

Sports fans in Salt Lake City know Hans Olsen well. He is the co-host of Hans & Scotty G on KSL Sports Zone 97.5. He and Scott Garrard have worked together since 2014.

Late last year, WEEI afternoon co-host Lou Merloni announced he was leaving Merloni, Fauria, and Mego as part of a larger shakeup of the Boston sports radio station to work as a game analyst for the Boston Red Sox on both WEEI and NESN.

In an interview with The Athletic, Merloni discussed his exit from the program and admitted after a decade and a half, sports radio had become increasingly difficult. But being a game analyst had always been of interest to him.

“It’s what I’ve always wanted to do,” Merloni said. “I’ve done games before and that was my happy place. I liked doing sports talk, but after a while, it was 15 years, it started grinding on you more than I wanted it to.”

Merloni — who spent nine seasons in the big leagues with the Red Sox, Padres, Indians, and Angels — added that the negativity of sports radio grew to be an issue for him.

“You wake up every day and search for that negative topic and it wears on you and turns you extremely negative,” he said. “It’s not manufactured, it’s just, that’s your job. If you just talk about nothing but how great the Bruins are, nobody would ever call in. So it’s ‘Why isn’t (David) Pastrnak signed yet?’

“So those are things that get people interacting with sports radio and those are the discussions you have. But you also want to keep it somewhat positive and balanced, it’s just different. There’s always that search for that sort of angle. And that grinds on you, it really does. It turns you into something you’re not, maybe.”

The soon-to-be 52-year-old said joining the NESN booth came at a great time for him.

“I’ve always wanted to be in the TV booth, I just didn’t know when the right time was, so sometimes things work out for a reason,”