Tony Kornheiser (born Anthony Irwin Kornheiser on July 13, 1948) is a popular American sportswriter, radio host and columnist for the Washington Post.

Well known for his acerbic wit, Kornheiser began his career in New York City after his graduation from Harpur College, now Binghamton University, in 1970. He joined the Post in 1979. Kornheiser and fellow sportswriter Michael Wilbon co-host the program Pardon the Interruption on ESPN television. He hosted The Tony Kornheiser Show on ESPN radio for six years and now has a radio show on AM 980 out of Washington, D.C. and carried by XM Satellite Radio.

The sitcom television show Listen Up, currently airing on CBS, is based on his life and features Jason Alexander as Tony.

Kornheiser believes that "Man vs. Beast" is the greatest program in sports history, and that the "trampoline bear" is the funniest clip in human history.

Describes himself as a "Blue State Guy".

Bibliography

• 1995 - Pumping irony: working out the angst of a lifetime. DIANE Publishing Company. ASIN 0788167731.
• 1997 - Bald as I wanna be. Villard. 304 pages. ASIN 0375500375.
• 2003 - I’m back for more cash: a Tony Kornheiser collection (because you can’t take two hundred newspapers into the bathroom). Villard. 400 pages. ISBN 0812968530.

External links

• Tony’s recent sports columns from The Washington Post (requires registration)
• The Tony Kornheiser unofficial home page includes an archive of columns from 1996-2001
• Archive of clips from the Tony Kornheiser Show on ESPN Radio