ESPN DREAM JOBBER BLOWS OFF BRISTOL FOR CHICAGO: The CHICAGO TRIBUNE reports on trouble in paradise for Mike Hall, your first-year ESPN “Dream Job” winnner.

Hall, not satisfied with being buried given periodic assignments on seldom-watched ESPNU, has departed his position and “will move back to Chicago to explore on-air opportunities.”

ESPN “tried to keep him by offering a raise, a short-term contract … and the promise of more high-profile work,” but Hall understandably wants to step out of obscurity and “return to Chicago.”

Hall smartly “declined to offer specifics, but he’s likely to draw strong interest from Comcast SportsNet and the Big Ten Network, among others.“