The Sun-Times' Jeff Agrest wrote this story upon the official news from 104.3 FM The SCORE Operations Director Mitch Rosen that Jarrett Payton will indeed replace Mike Mulligan alongside David Haugh starting next Monday.

It's not really as much about "Haugh & Payton" as much as Agrest feels the Chicago sports talk radio pipeline may have dried up. Agrest's biting comments can be found here:

https://chicago.suntimes.com/sports-media/2026/08/24/jarrett-payton-david-haugh-the-score-sports-radio-chicago-morning-show-mike-mulligan-brian-hanley-dan-bernstein-danny-parkins-jason-goff-patrick-kane-caleb-wilson