Sports “The Mightier 1090” XEPRS Rosarito MX has announced the addition of Arash Markazi to host a daily hour from 12-1pm starting Wednesday, October 7.
Markazi most recently served as a Sports columnist for the Los Angeles Times until going on paid leave and then exiting the newspaper this summer. Markazi resigned from the Times in August following an investigation into accusations of plagiarism and ethical impropriety. Markazi has also served as a columnist for ESPN.com and Sports Illustrated.
Southern California’s sports leader, The Mightier 1090, recently returned to the airwaves last August and today announced that they are launching another new local show, The Arash Markazi Show from 12pm-1pm, Monday- Friday. The show will start on Wednesday, October 7, 2020.
Arash Markazi spent the previous 16 years as a sports columnist with the Los Angeles Times and a senior writer at ESPN and Sports Illustrated. He has covered every major sports event from the Super Bowl and the World Series to Wimbledon and the Tour de France.
A Southern California native, Markazi dreamed of hosting a sports talk radio show when he was in grade school, later at Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, Calif., and at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California.
“When I was in grade school, I would listen to the old Mighty 690 every day and type out faxes to my favorite sports talk radio hosts at the station since I was too young to call in,” said Markazi. “When we were asked to draw our future jobs in school, I drew a picture of me hosting a sports talk show on the old 690. I even created a logo for my radio show in school but I was too nervous to actually pursue it so it remained nothing more than a childhood dream. Well, 26 years later that dream has become a reality. I can’t begin to say how excited I am for the debut of The Arash Markazi Show on The Mightier 1090.”
After graduating from USC, Markazi was hired by Sports Illustrated and appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated on Campus. He soon began writing a weekly column for Sports Illustrated’s website and his intimate and quirky portraits of athletes promoted the Los Angeles Times to name him one of the Faces to Watch in 2006. After five years at Sports Illustrated, Markazi joined ESPN in 2009 before becoming a sports columnist at the Los Angeles Times in 2019. His first assignment was to cover the Los Angeles Rams playing in Super Bowl LIII.
Located at 1090 AM on the radio dial, The Mightier 1090 features an all-star lineup that includes long-time San Diego prime-time sports-radio staple, Scott Kaplan. The Mightier 1090 is the Flagship radio station for The Rich Eisen Show and Sportsgrid Radio’s Scott Ferrall Shows.
“We are really excited that Arash is joining the team,” said The Mightier 1090’s Bill Hagen. “Each and every day we continue to build this iconic radio station back into something that everyone will love. Adding another local show with Arash was a huge step in the right direction.”
