For those who can’t get enough sports talk at home or office, two popular morning-radio shows help fill the void: The Sports Junkies on 106.7 The Fan, and The Tony Kornheiser Show on ESPN 980-AM. Both are on-air boys’ clubs where the guys can opine, whine, and crack jokes about sports, pop culture, life, and each other. The Junks, as they’re known, started in broadcasting with a cable-access show in Bowie. Tony Kornheiser, a former sports columnist for the Washington Post, once was a commentator on Monday Night Football and appears on ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption with good friend Michael Wilbon. Here’s a guide.
The Sports Junkies
The Tony Kornheiser Show
YEARS ON THE AIR
15
19
WHO THEY ARE
J.P. Flaim, Jason Bishop, John Auville, and Eric Bickel
Photograph courtesy of CBS Radio.
Kornheiser and an assortment of sidekicks
Photograph by Richard Greenhouse/ESPN.
ORIGINALLY FROM
Prince George’s County
Long Island
HOURS ON AIR
5 to 10 am
10 to noon
OPENING LINE
“What’s up, everybody?”
“All righty then . . .”
STUDIO LOCATION
Lanham
Rockville
WHO’S THE BOSS?
CBS Radio
Dan Snyder
ON-AIR JARGON
“Bro”; “donk” as a verb and noun
“Old guy”; computers are “Google machines”
ON-AIR MUSIC
Metal and rock
Oldies from the ’60s and ’70s
ON-AIR OBSESSIONS
Girls, sex, cocktails
Traffic, parking garages, modern technology
PREFERRED SPORTS
Football
Basketball and baseball
SPORTS HEROES
Michael Jordan, Eddie Murray
Willie Mays
WOMEN REGULARS
None
Torie Clarke, Jeanne McManus, Liz Clarke
COOL BUDDIES
Chris Cooley, former Maryland governor Bob Ehrlich
A Guide to Morning Sports Talk Radio
The Sports Junkies on 106.7 The Fan, and The Tony Kornheiser Show on ESPN 980-AM help fill the void for those who can't get enough sports talk.
For those who can’t get enough sports talk at home or office, two popular morning-radio shows help fill the void: The Sports Junkies on 106.7 The Fan, and The Tony Kornheiser Show on ESPN 980-AM. Both are on-air boys’ clubs where the guys can opine, whine, and crack jokes about sports, pop culture, life, and each other. The Junks, as they’re known, started in broadcasting with a cable-access show in Bowie. Tony Kornheiser, a former sports columnist for the Washington Post, once was a commentator on Monday Night Football and appears on ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption with good friend Michael Wilbon. Here’s a guide.
Photograph courtesy of CBS Radio.
Photograph by Richard Greenhouse/ESPN.
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