Former WSCR host Terry Boers dies

Was paired with Dan Bernstein for eighteen years in midday, afternoons

Former WSCR-AM/670 The Score host Terry Boers passed away on Friday at the age of 75. 

From WSCR Operations Director Mitch Rosen: “The Score lost one of our own today. Terry Boers passed away today surrounded by loved ones. Terry was one of the founding fathers of The Score and one of the most popular people on the air and in The Score hallways. Terry was original, funny, smart, witty and most importantly a beautiful person. Terry’s family’s wish is there won’t be a funeral, but The Score will celebrate his life on the air next week. So today and forever, RIP Terry Boers.”

Boers joined WSCR when the station started operations in January 1992 (he was a regular on WGN-AM’s The Sportswriters for two years before that) and spent 25 years with the station, best known for being paired with Dan Bernstein for eighteen of those years, first in midday then in afternoons. The most popular segment was “Who Ya Crappin'”, as callers would take potshots at sports figures and was inspired by a phrase Bears coach Mike Ditka said to Boers on the air. Boers was known to have health issues in later years, and often kept him off the air at times. The cause of death is due to liver failure. 

Before his radio career took off, Boers spent twenty years as a print journalist, most notably for the Chicago Sun-Times, where he covered the Chicago Bulls from 1982 to 1985. A south suburban kid, Boers was born in Chicago Heights, raised in Steger, and went to Bloom Township High School. 

Boers announced his retirement in November 2016. Here’s what he said back then: 

“During this trying year, it’s never been made more crystal clear to me how many people care. My email has been swamped more than a couple of times during the summer and fall, jammed with well-wishers who’d heard what was going on. That made me cry, too. And so do all the people from this station and others from CBS who’ve shown their love. They have no idea how much it means to me, even if I have no idea how to handle it or what to say when you enter a room of cheering co-workers as I did back on Oct. 24, the first day of my aborted comeback.”

“So there’s really only one other thing for you to know. This has been the time of my life. Thanks for the ride.”

Boers departed WSCR on January 5, 2017, the same year parent CBS Radio was sold to Entercom, which is now known as Audacy.