Tony Kornheiser's Bandwagon

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TK: The Bandwagon and the Blogs
Published 5/14/2008 by Dan Steinberg at D.C. Sports Bog
TK: The Bandwagon and the Blogs Quick notes gathered while looking for a lost wallet in a car with a dead battery.... First off, for those who weren't here at the time, or who were here and can't get enough, or who grew up in Western New York as Bills fans and still remember Super Bowl XXVI as one of life's great tragedis, here's the link to an old but still workable Bandwagon homepage . Lots of Bandwagon columns to read. Different time. But my D.C.-based friends who were adolescents in those days speak of the Bandwagon series as the most important brush with sports journalism ...

Kornheiser Takes a Buyout, I Don’t Care
Published 5/15/2008 by Jamie Mottram at Mr. Irrelevant
... The man has done two things that I ever gave a shit about: The Bandwagon and PTI. The former died 16 years ago and the latter has nothing to do with the Post, so whatever. Good for TK. Best of luck to him. Though I wish ESPN was offering Monday Night Football buyouts too. ...

Khornball Sells Bought Out
Published 5/17/2008 by Caps Nut (noreply@blogger.com) at Bleatings From a Caps Nut
... But his ignorance of hockey doesn't mean wasn't a great writer at one point in time. Driving down memory lane and reading his Bandwagon Columns, you see just how good Khornball once was. One could easily look at those and wondered just what happened? How did a guy who was funny, sarcastic, witty, clever, and just plain good turn so bad. The irony is, those columns right there were the beginning of the end. They mark is decent into a guy more committed to shtick than substance. ...

The Redskins Hire Their Blogger
Published 4 days ago by Dan Steinberg at D.C. Sports Bog
... in LOGO -- I think it would've ranked fairly high up there. Did you ever want to be a professional sports writer? Not once I realized that doing so would involve starting off as an amateur sports writer. I covered some high school basketball games and was just disastrous at it, so I immediately moved over to the Features section, where I did better. I did want to be a sports columnist, though, starting during the Redskins run to Super Bowl XXVI, with Kornheiser doing not only his "bandwagon" stuff , but all the endless coverage of ice fishing and various bits of wacky ...