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Smerconish's driveway tragedy
The talk-show host goes public with what he calls a "devastating" story: He accidentally ran over his son's dog.
Michael Smerconish went public on his WPHT (1210) talk show with a tragic accident last Saturday, in which he accidentally ran over his son's cocker spaniel in the driveway of their home. Smerconish said he rushed the dog to three vets to no avail. Two months before, the family dog Checkers, a Lab, died at age 14 of natural causes.
"This was just devasting, just horrible," Smerconish told me. Though he now seems regretful that he discussed it on the air, he acknowledged that his confession opened the phone lines Monday with people telling what he called "amazing stories" about similar family tragedies.