(670 The Score) David Schuster has covered Chicago sports for several decades, including reporting on a dozen championships that the city's teams have won. For thousands of those games, he watched alongside the late Les Grobstein, who passed away in January.
Schuster, who worked as a reporter for 670 The Score from 2001 to 2020, remembered his good friend Grobstein as a constant presence he cherished.
“Les was in my life for 40-plus years,” Schuster said in a Score Stories segment on the Parkins & Spiegel Show on Thursday as the station continued to celebrate its 30-year anniversary. “I mean, wherever I was, he was. We traveled together. We were at games next to each other. I mean, there was nothing more fun.
“Les and I would go at it in press boxes over all these years, especially at Bears games where you’re bored out of your mind from all the hijinks going on down on the field. We would sort of turn it into a comedy show, and Les and I would sort of go at it. It would be good-natured, but of course I would win all those things. Totally.
“I always said that Les would always be there. The Cubs, it took them 108 years to win a championship. If it took them another 100, I thought Les would be there for that one too.”
Grobstein was a Chicago native and Columbia College graduate who began his career as a Northwestern basketball commentator in 1970. Spending his career in sports, Grobstein worked as an announcer for various sports teams, a reporter for Sportsphone Chicago, as the sports director at WLS 890-AM and as a reporter for WMVP-1000 before settling into his longtime home with 670 The Score.