Sports talk with receipts and side complaints.
The Tony Kornheiser Show starts with sports, then lets the room decide how straight the road stays. Masters pressure, brackets, Lakers losses, NASA talk, phone trouble, and listener emails all sit in the same crowded booth.
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The Tony Kornheiser Show is sports talk that behaves like a standing table conversation. It usually begins with the scoreboard or the schedule. It rarely ends there. Masters coverage can move from Rory’s weekend and Augusta pressure to Tiger’s aura, Brando Chamblee’s point about blown leads, and the way sports media loses something when it forgets history. Basketball brings out the show’s taste for brackets, grudges, seed complaints, and quick reversals. A Miami of Ohio result can become both a correction and a point of pride. A Michigan win over UConn gets the Bob Ryan treatment. A Lakers blowout in Oklahoma City becomes a sharper question about how bad the night really was before the injury excuse arrived. The show likes big events, but it also likes the texture around them. Parking is treated with comic seriousness. Washington, D.C. weather gets logged like a box score. Travel to Arizona, a comedy show, an arena name, a NASA mission, or a bag of potatoes can all make the board. That looseness is part of the appeal. The regular rhythm is not polished monologue so much as layered interruption, agreement, correction, and remembered detail. Guests and familiar names supply range: Michael Wilbon on tournament stakes, Steve Sands on Augusta, Ron Green Jr. on Gary Woodland, Buster Olney on baseball and odd domestic ideas, Noah Petro on Artemis II, and Greg Garcia on whatever the room drags him into. The show can be very funny. It can also turn grave quickly, especially when an athlete’s private fear or recovery changes the usual fan conversation. Listener emails close the loop with food jokes, music notes, old sports memories, and recurring bits. It is best for people who want sports opinion with human clutter left in. The mess is the method.
Made for: For sports fans who like opinion, memory, and daily-life digression mixed together. It especially fits listeners who enjoy golf, basketball talk, NBA talk, listener mail, and familiar recurring voices.
What sets it apart: The show’s edge is its willingness to let the side road become the main road. Scores and tournaments matter, but so do parking, weather, phone trouble, food jokes, and the old reference that somehow explains the game.
"The Tony Kornheiser Show" (now available exclusively on-demand) is a topical, daily talk show that starts with sports and quickly moves into politics, current events, entertainment and, really, whatever happens to be on Tony’s mind that day. The format of the show—regular sit-in guests with familiar interviews and segments—highlights not only the unique perspective of Tony Kornheiser but also the expertise of his network of friends. Join one of the most recognizable and outspoken commentators of sports and entertainment (longtime radio host in Washington, DC and current co-host of ESPN's PTI) and enjoy original episodes published every weekday starting September 6th.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Tony Kornheiser pairs sharp sports questions with long memory, guest conversation and comic detours that make each argument feel lived rather than packaged.
The Tony Kornheiser Show turns sports analysis into a running conversation, with Tony Kornheiser moving easily between personal stories, pointed questions and exchanges with familiar voices.
Tony Kornheiser takes you from Rory's Masters finish to an Alabama veggie burger without asking permission.
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The Masters talk turns on memory, with an Alabama veggie burger waiting in the margins.
The Masters gives the episode its shape, though the more interesting thread is how memory changes the way a tournament is judged. Tony and the conversations with Michael, Michael Wilbon, and Steve Sands move through Rory's difficult Sunday, Cameron Young's repeated recoveries…
Augusta talk turns moving as Gary Woodland's recovery reaches beyond the usual sports comeback story.
Augusta supplies the golf backdrop, but Gary Woodland's life after brain surgery gives this episode its emotional pull. Steve Sands speaks plainly about the fear, mood changes and daily uncertainty Woodland still faces, as well as the strain carried by his supportive wife.
College basketball, Masters uncertainty and parking logistics meet in a loose, detail-rich sports conversation.
Michigan's first men's basketball title since 1989 opens the episode, with Bob Ryan joining Tony Kornheiser for that discussion before AP golf writer Doug Ferguson helps turn the focus to a wide-open Masters.
A loose Arizona trip frames a dry, lived-in conversation about a surprising men's Final Four.
The episode uses a trip to Arizona as the frame for a loose, easygoing sports conversation, drifting from Greg Garcia and Nate Bargetze into the men's Final Four and the surprise of Michigan-Arizona never really becoming a game.
Gary Woodland's recovery sits beside bagged potatoes, full-moon logic, and another chicken argument.
Tony Kornheiser's show settles into its usual odd balance: a bag of potatoes on one side, Gary Woodland's recovery on the other. The planned Ron Green Jr.
James Carville turns college football's return into a lively defense of LSU tailgating.
College football comes back through James Carville's full-bodied confidence in the sport's rituals, starting with the tailgate. For him, LSU's standing is not really up for debate, even as the host tests that certainty with SEC rivals, Packers crowds in December, and the ways…
A Steelers loss, older quarterbacks playing well, and a wine hunt shape a loose but useful NFL conversation.
"It Was In the Tank!" starts with a wild Bengals-Steelers Thursday game, then opens into a wider NFL read on pressure, narrow strengths, and teams that may be edging toward real trouble.
Big Cat and PFT Commenter cover the NFL, March Madness, and NHL for laughs.
Tony Kornhauser rambles about a missing guest, thanks a florist, and discusses the Wizards' win and lack of media coverage.
Tony Kornheiser hosts a show celebrating the return of college football with guest James Carville, who discusses LSU tailgating, the political origins of the New Orleans Saints, and the Manning family's legacy.
Tony Kornheiser opens with a personal story about a toilet leak causing a high water bill.
Rick Devens's Big Brother season-28 win brought an email writer $58.71 from a $5 bet inspired by The Tony Kornheiser Show.
Rory McIlroy's second straight Masters win sits beside Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, and Nick Faldo, and Tony Kornheiser frames it as a six-major leap toward ten.
Tony Kornheiser opens from a cold Washington morning, then spends the first stretch on the Nationals' 6.39 bullpen ERA, six-walk outings, and another blown eighth-inning lead.
Tony Kornheiser opens by teeing up Masters coverage with Doug Ferguson of the AP and a later conversation with Bob Ryan about Michigan's 69-63 win over UConn.
Tony Kornheiser opens with Greg Garcia, Nate Bargatze, and a parking setup that puts his group next to the tour bus at a 20,000-seat arena.
Tony Kornheiser discusses the cold weather in D.C., Greg Garcia's presence, and the Lakers' blowout loss to Oklahoma City.
Tony Kornheiser and Buster Olney spend the baseball segment on Shohei Ohtani, and Buster says he would call Ohtani "the greatest baseball player ever." They also discuss Ohtani's 97 mph fastball, his splitter-slider-cutter mix, and the challenge of pitching while serving as the Dodgers' DH.
Tony Kornheiser and Bob Ryan discuss NCAA tournament brackets, including Iowa State's seeding and Miami of Ohio's play-in game victory.
Tony Kornheiser discusses NFL coach of the year, Phillip Rivers' future with the Colts, and football picks with guests, while ranting about email and phone issues.
Tony Kornheiser discusses football picks, a New Yorker documentary, and shares anecdotes about a mouse and caramels.
Tony Kornheiser discusses the cold weather in Washington D.C.