Tony Kornheiser blasts Knicks’ ‘arrogance’ as coaching search collapses
"They think that their name is so prestigious that everyone wants to coach there."
"They think that their name is so prestigious that everyone wants to coach there."
"The show should die when they don't wanna do it anymore."
As expected, the show's finale saw higher than usual tune in.
"We could not have asked for a better partner program. ATH built up an audience and handed it off to us, so we could hit the ground running every weeknight."
"What do we need to do differently?"
WaPo reports that ESPN approached Michael Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser about doubling their airtime but didn’t offer much of a raise.
"Best thing they could have done for us."
"You know who else is eligible for the Hall of Fame right now? Barry Bonds is eligible, Mark McGwire is eligible, Sammy Sosa, Roger Clemens, they're eligible. Are they getting in any time soon?"
"Charles took me to dinner and said, 'What do you mean you're thinking about not doing this show, what are you talking about?'"
"At some point, you gotta make an example. And he has to be the example."
"Mel Kiper got this right when he said this was personal. This is not about football."
"Do you want me to say it or do you want to say it, as to what we're doing here?"
"He could be the most charming guy in the room and the guy you wanted to throw out the room."
"It leads toward the ruination of what I appreciate about college football."
"The NBA needs to follow suit very quickly after the tone that the NHL has set."
"You're the problem."
"The first game is where you are going to feel how much those fans feel betrayed and how much pain they have."
"PTI is one of the brilliantly engineered formats."
"I don't know why I said Pardon the Interruption."
"It's a money play for everybody involved, including this network."
"This is college football attempting to spit in the eye of the NFL."
ESPN is bouncing around ideas to replace the departing Around the Horn including an hour-long edition of Pardon the Interruption.
Wilbon is handing himself a W for predicting Brady would be great at Fox, not realizing just how split NFL fans are on the legendary QB's broadcasting start.