Taylor McGregor leaving Cubs' Marquee Sports Network for ESPN
Reporter Taylor McGregor is leaving Marquee Sports Network to join ESPN full-time. Her final day covering the Chicago Cubs is Thursday.
Initially, Taylor McGregor wasn’t interested in coming to Chicago to be the lead field reporter for the Cubs’ fledgling Marquee Sports Network. She was happy doing the same job for the Rockies, her hometown team.But colleagues set her straight, pointing to the Cubs’ draw and stature in baseball.“They were like, ‘You’re insane. You have to go after this,’ ” McGregor told the Sun-Times in March. “I said, ‘OK, you’re right.’ I ended up flying out, and I remember landing in Chicago and being like,…
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