The Sports Junkies
| Genre | Talk, Sports |
|---|---|
| Running time | Monday through Friday 5 am to 10 am |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Home station | Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic (2016-Present) |
| Starring | John Martin “Cakes” Auville Eric Carlton “E.B.” Bickel Jason William “Lurch” Bishop John-Paul “J.P.” Flaim |
| Produced by | Matt Cahill, Matt Myers |
| Original release | 1996 – present |
| Website | [6] |
| Podcast | Podcasts |
The Sports Junkies, also known as The Junkies, are the hosts of an eponymous morning drive time radio show aired in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. The hosts are John Auville, Eric Bickel, Jason Bishop, and John-Paul Flaim. Their show is heard on WJFK, 106.7. Their show focuses on a mix of discussions about sports, women, popular culture, and the day-to-day lives of the Junkies.
The show debuted at #100 in the 2008 edition of Talkers Magazine Heavy 100, moved up to #84 in the 2009 edition and #75 in the 2010 edition. It fell to #88 in the 2011 edition and were not mentioned in the 2012 Heavy Talkers Top 250 List. The Junkies are listed on the Talkers Sports Heavy Hundred #32.
Known as “Cakes,” Auville, (has also been credited as "Martin Auville") was born in 1970. He was raised in Bowie, Maryland alongside fellow Junkies Eric Bickel and John-Paul Flaim, and attended Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt, Maryland. After high school, Auville studied communications at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland, about which he is occasionally ridiculed for achieving a 1.5 grade point average (GPA) one semester; he then managed a local Toys Я Us store until making radio his full-time occupation in 1996. Auville's family currently lives in Olney, Maryland. He married his wife, Amy, in 1995. They have three children, Kurt Joseph (1997), Juliet (2002), and Brendan Craig (2004). After the birth of their third child, Auville had a vasectomy and has since been mocked with the name “Johnny Blanks.” The most successful poker player among the group with multiple cashes in the annual JPO and a surprise 15th-place finish in the PPC Aruba World Championship.
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