A Guide to Morning Sports Talk Radio

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	James Carville, Arch Campbell, Michael Wilbon
CLOSING LINE	“We’re outta here.”	“If you’re out on your bike tonight, wear white.”

Carol Ross Joynt