BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Over the last week, Tony Kornheiser has gotten many emails from people offering him condolences over the shuttering of the Washington Post’s sports section.
The famed co-host of ESPN’s “Pardon the Interruption” hadn’t worked for the newspaper since he took a buyout in 2008. By his own admission, he’s never even been in the paper’s new offices on K Street.
However, Kornheiser gets why people have reached out to him in the wake of the national newspaper laying off over 300 employees in the newsroom last week, as well as shutter all of its international bureaus. In many ways, the newspaper was what gave him a major platform, coming to Washington in 1979 under sports editor George Solomon and staying through his work as a reporter and columnist, where he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1997. It’s also where he met Mike Wilbon, who would go on to join him for “PTI,” now in its 25th year on ESPN…