Kornheiser Takes Buyout

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Sad Day at the Wash Post: Kornheiser Takes Buyout
Published 5/14/2008 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... Guess this could be filed under breaking news, but several readers have written in this morning to say that Tony Kornheiser just announced on his radio show that he has taken a buyout from the Washington Post. The DC Sports Bog has taken some notes: ...

Tony Kornheiser Leaves The World Of Newspapers [Tony Kornheiser]
Published 5/14/2008 by Leitch at Deadspin
... Sad news this morning, and we're pretty sure it's the fault of the goddamned blogs: Tony Kornheiser, after nearly 30 years at the Washington Post, has accepted a buyout from the paper. ...

Former Newsday scribe Tony Kornheiser leaves Post
Published 5/14/2008 by Neil Best at Watchdog
Tony Kornheiser officially is done (for now) as a full-time newspaper man, having accepted a buyout from the Washington Post. Here is the news, via his radio show, via DC Sports Bog, via Deadspin. Tony's wistfulness is understandable, and there is a local connection here, of course, for a kid from Lynbrook who began his professional career at Newsday, inspired by Stan Isaacs, who later founded Newsday's TV Sports column. But none of this is a surprise. When I spoke to Tony before his "Monday Night Football" debut in 2006, he made ...

Kornheiser Officially Takes Buyout From The Washington Post
Published 5/14/2008 by Awful Announcing- (noreply@blogger.com) at Awful Announcing
... As much as I bash Tony Kornheiser for his MNF nonsense, this is actually a sad day for us DC folks. I, like many others, grew up reading Tony in the Post covering everything from Sports to his family and extremely enjoyed it. DC Sports Bog has the details of the announcement on his radio show.... ...

Kornheiser Takes Washington Post Buy-Out
Published 5/14/2008 by DanShanoff.com (noreply@blogger.com) at Dan Shanoff
Tony Kornheiser ends his newspaper career at the Washington Post: Tony Kornheiser hadn't been a particularly active "newspaperman" for years -- perhaps not since he became a better radio guy than newspaper guy, then an even better TV guy (on PTI) than radio guy. ...

Kornheiser Out At Washington Post
Published 5/14/2008 by Christopher Byrne (noreply@blogger.com) at Eye On Sports Media
Athens, GA (Mar 14, 2008) - Dan Steinberg is reporting on his Washington Post blog that Tony Kornheiser is taking the buy-out offer from the Washington Post. More over on Steinberg's D.C. Sports blog... ...

Tom Brady's wish for ESPN: More girls, less spygate
Published 5/14/2008 at Shutdown Corner
... Brady's right when he says it's the environment. It is. And it's an environment that we've created by being ravenous sports fans who crave a ton of information, opinion, analysis, and columnists (and ex-columnists) and TV personalities yelling at each other. The market insists that it exist, and it does. It's the nature of the beast. ...

Kornheiser Takes Washington Post Buyout, Retires as a 'Newspaper Guy'
Published 5/14/2008 by Will Brinson at FanHouse
... Kornheiser has been at the Post since 1979 and for a pair of generations -- ours and our parents -- is probably considered the most important sports journalism voice from the Capitol area. Kornheiser sounded (as transcribed by Dan Steinberg) melancholy about his departure. ...

Morning Constitutional: Tony K Leaves WaPo
Published 5/14/2008 at The Sporting Blog
Kornheiser Takes Buyout | D.C. Sports Bog Tony announces this morning on his radio show that he is no longer a newspaper writer. You'll still see plenty of him on the ol' picture box. ...

First Significant Offseason Personnel Development for HockeyWashington
Published 5/14/2008 by The OFB Team at On Frozen Blog
... It’s a sunny Wednesday indeed. As heard on 3WT and reported by Dan Steinberg, Tony Kornheiser has accepted an early retirement/cost-cutting buyout from the Washington Post. ...

Tony Kornheiser and the Washington Post Make Like a Banana
Published 5/14/2008 by JC at Stet Sports Blog
... And split. It's sad, really. Tony Kornheiser in so many ways made Washington sports. Nobody captured the malaise of the fan base, the essence of under achievement, and the irony of it all like he did. Mix in his seamless transition to television banter with his awkwardness on Monday Night Football, and add in a dash of love/hate for blogs, and you've got the epitome of sports media celebrity. Even though he's been out the door for a couple of years now, it's always sad when you finally hear it shut behind you. ...

TK LEAVES JOB HE REALLY LEFT YEARS AGO
Published 5/14/2008 at With Leather
... Coming as a shock to the hundred of fans of his radio show, Tony Kornheiser took a brief break from discussing American Idol. This momentous shift in programming was done so he could announce that he was the latest of dozens of employees that have taken the voluntary buyout from The Washington Post, that redoubtable money-bleeding newspaper he's pretended to write for the last few years. ...

Blog Jam: Barkley Calls Magic Coach ‘Ron Jeremy’
Published 5/14/2008 by jason at SPORTSbyBROOKS
... . • DC SPORTS BOG cashes in on the news of Tony Kornheiser taking a buyout from the Washington Post . • DEUCE OF DAVENPORT says to just let Joba ...

Cheap Shots: Haven’t Done This In a While
Published 5/14/2008 by Signal to Noise at Signal to Noise
... Despite what Tony Kornheiser has become on Monday Night Football, the news of him accepting a buyout from the Washington Post is a sad note. [DC Sports Bog] ...

Wednesday News Roundup 5.14.08
Published 5/14/2008 by Cherie at THE SPORTS DIVA MAGAZINE
... The NBA Playoff analysts are the greatest aren't they? (JuicedSportsBlog) Carson Palmer's frustration level is at zero. (ProFootballTalk) Why WON'T Meechigan just pay off WVU and put the Rodriguez madness to bed? (Eleven Warriors) Why NBA teams just can't seem to win on the road. (Epic Carnival) Basketball and Poetry, a fit made in sneaker heaven. (And One) Kornheiser says goodbye to print and takes buyout. (D.C. Sports Bog) ESPN turning into MTV? Well Tom Brady, I might not hold the fact that ...

Kornheiser takes Post buyout
Published 5/15/2008 by Howard Burns at SPORTS COUCH POTATO
... Kornheiser made the announcement on his Washington radio show, which he will continue to do along with "PTI" and "Monday Night Football," Dan Steinberg wrote in the Post's D.C. Sports Bog. ...

Kornheiser Takes a Buyout, I Don’t Care
Published 5/15/2008 by Jamie Mottram at Mr. Irrelevant
... Tony Kornheiser won’t be writing for the Post anymore, and that affects me about as much as it would affect him if I stopped writing for Mr. Irrelevant. ...

Kornheiser takes a buyout: Washington Post won’t be the same
Published 5/15/2008 by houroc at SportFiends
... Tony Kornheiser announced that he will be retiring from the Washington Post on his Radio Show yesterday. The DC Sports blog has more info about his announcement on the show. ...

Published 5/16/2008 by Aaron (noreply@blogger.com) at AaronGleeman.com
... After nearly 30 years at the Washington Post, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Tony Kornheiser took a buyout from the newspaper this week and announced that he'll likely retire at the end of the month. Kornheiser appeared on longtime Miami Herald columnist Dan LeBatard's radio show to discuss the news and LeBatard, who recently took a self-imposed leave of absence from his own column, opined that the newspaper business "is dying." Kornheiser interrupted, ...