Pardon the Interruption

Monday – Friday 6:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Washington Post columnists Tony Kornheiser and Mike Wilbon face-off during this half-hour debate devoted exclusively to sports opinions and headlines. Time is always ticking away as Kornheiser and Wilbon haggle their way through sports topics. Two minutes per argument and rebuttal makes for a fast-paced and quick-witted show delivering candid insight.

Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon (also a sports columnist with the Washington Post) have co-hosted Pardon the Interruption since the show's debut on Sept. 22, 2001. Highlighted by the type of contentious but good-natured verbal sparring that the two engaged in for years at the Post, the program has consistently enjoyed increased listenership with its unique, fast-paced, wide-ranging and humorous discussion of the day's most important and interesting news in sports and more.

Kornheiser joined ESPN in November 1997 as host of ESPN Radio's Tony Kornheiser Show, which premiered January 5, 1998 and continued until March 2004. Previously, his show aired exclusively on WTEM-AM in Washington, D.C. beginning in 1992. He also has appeared frequently on ESPN's Sunday-morning roundtable program, The Sports Reporters.

Kornheiser remains a columnist for the Washington Post, which he joined in 1979. He has been a sports columnist there since 1984 and for many years also wrote for the Style section, attracting a large following for his humorous musings on topics ranging from presidential politics to his teenaged children, his elderly father and the behavior of his dog. These columns have been compiled in three books – Pumping Irony, Bald as I Wanna Be, and Back for More Cash.

Kornheiser graduated from Harpur College in upstate New York (now SUNY-Binghamton) in 1970. He began his career in journalism at Newsday and the New York Times. He is married and has two children..

Wilbon joined The Washington Post in 1980 as a general assignment sports reporter, and since 1990 has been as a full-time sports columnist. He has covered a wide variety of sports, including professional soccer, college football and basketball, Major League Baseball, the NFL and the NBA. Since 1984 Wilbon has been part of The Washington Post's Olympics coverage. As a columnist, he offers commentary on the national issues of the day as they relate to sports..

In 2001, the Society of Professional Journalists named Wilbon the top sports columnist of the year. Wilbon has been among the top three national sports columnists selected by the Associated Press Sports Editors three times..

Wilbon also appears on ESPN's Sports Reporters, and has been on ESPN's NFL Monday Night Countdown, WRC-TV's "Redskins Report", and Full Court Press on NBC's Washington affiliate.