It was that year he went to New York and wrote a lengthy piece entitled "They Always Come Home Again" about college basketball players who return to their city courts in the summer.
After the multi-year deal expired, Telander sporadically would contribute to Sports Illustrated, and host a radio show on WSCR.
Of note is the fact that Telander voted for two known steroid users, José Canseco and Ken Caminiti, in the previous year's Hall of Fame ballot.
[citation needed] The fury erupted very publicly after Chicago sports-talk radio show host Mike North took Telander to task while interviewing Andre Dawson on January 9, 2008.
[citation needed] Telander wrote an article that Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens should not get in the Hall of Fame because of their use of steroids and that they lack integrity.
Nearly 1,000 people attended, including famous Cubs fan Bill Murray, who sang with Telander’s band, the Del-Crustaceans.
The 101st Annual Next Year Day was held Friday, April 3, 2009, at Harry Caray's Tavern in Chicago's River North neighborhood.
[8] Former South Carolina assistant coach Jim Washburn, just hired by the Philadelphia Eagles, apologized again in 2011 for steroid scandal he helped create (and which sent him to prison), as documented in Telander’s SI story with Tommy Chaikin.
[13] In June 2018, he received the Sigma Delta Chi Award and Bronze Medallion for distinguished service from the Society of Professional Journalists, in Washington, D.C.[14] In January 2021 it was announced that Telander was voted into the National Sports Media Association Hall of Fame in Winston-Salem, NC.