Gerry Callahan

Gerald "Gerry" Callahan is an American sports columnist for the Boston Herald and radio talk show host of the Kirk and Callahan show on WEEI. He is a graduate of Chelmsford High School and the University of Massachusetts Amherst and currently resides in Andover, Massachusetts.

He began his career as a sports reporter for The Sun in Lowell in 1983, and moved to the Herald in 1989. From 1994 to 1997, he also wrote for Sports Illustrated. He covered the 1996 Olympic Games for Sports Illustrated Olympic Daily. Callahan generally argues a conservative view point and jokes that he "fantasizes about" conservative columnist and author Ann Coulter.

On September 29, 2003, during a segment called 'headlines', where they read and comment about current news stories, Callahan and his morning co-host John Dennis made racist remarks while discussing a story about an escaped gorilla. The gorilla had escaped from the Franklin Park Zoo and had been recaptured at a bus stop. According to newspaper articles, the exchange allegedly was:

METCO is a state program that buses inner-city Boston students to nearby suburban schools. The racist comments compared poor, mostly African-American children to gorillas. WEEI general manager Tom Baker suspended both hosts for two days, then extended the suspension to two weeks after the Blue Cross-Blue Shield (Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts) pulled $27,000 in ads and in turn donated that money to METCO. Dunkin' Donuts responded by ceasing all advertising that involved the voices of John Dennis or Gerry Callahan. Both hosts apologized and were sent to sensitivity training. WEEI also agreed to provide free advertising for the METCO program on the radio station. In November 2003, WEEI General Manager Tom Baker was replaced by Julie Kahn. Station executives denied there was a connection between the METCO incident and Baker's replacement. Nowadays, both Dennis and Callahan regularly mock their sensitivity training punishment.

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