[1] In addition to hosting, Rodgers served as a play-by-play announcer for NESN's coverage of the Pawtucket Red Sox and was the network's play-by-play announcer for the final six weeks of the 2000 Boston Red Sox season.
Rodgers won the station's first EMMY award for the groundbreaking morning show, Sportsdesk.
Rodgers was fired by NESN in March 2004 after he left spring training without permission to coach the Whitman-Hanson Regional High School boys' basketball team in the state tournament.
In June 2011 he took over as the athletic director at Whitman-Hanson Regional High School in a suburb of Boston.
The team also earned the states number one ranking and amassed a school record 35 game winning streak spanning two seasons including an undefeated campaign during the covid year of 2021.