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Dave Portnoy recalls ESPN sending Barstool cease and desist letter over ‘Pardon My Take’
"Best thing they could have done for us."
Tony Kornheiser predicts Pete Rose still won’t make HOF after Rob Manfred affirms eligibility
"You know who else is eligible for the Hall of Fame right now? Barry Bonds is eligible, Mark McGwire is eligible, Sammy Sosa, Roger Clemens, they're eligible. Are they getting in any time soon?"
Michael Wilbon admits he had to be talked into doing ‘Pardon the Interruption’
"Charles took me to dinner and said, 'What do you mean you're thinking about not doing this show, what are you talking about?'"
Kendrick Perkins calls for Tyrese Haliburton’s father to be suspended for postseason
"At some point, you gotta make an example. And he has to be the example."
Michael Wilbon credits Mel Kiper Jr. for outrage over Shedeur Sanders’ draft slide: ‘It was personal’
"Mel Kiper got this right when he said this was personal. This is not about football."
Tony Kornheiser, Michael Wilbon committed to the bit on torpedo bat ban April Fool’s joke
"Do you want me to say it or do you want to say it, as to what we're doing here?"
Michael Wilbon remembers John Feinstein: ‘Always a compelling figure’
"He could be the most charming guy in the room and the guy you wanted to throw out the room."
Michael Wilbon rips ‘loathsome’ SEC, Big Ten plan for College Football Playoff
"It leads toward the ruination of what I appreciate about college football."
Michael Wilbon calls for NBA to ‘follow suit’ with NHL in getting rid of All-Star Game
"The NBA needs to follow suit very quickly after the tone that the NHL has set."
Tony Kornheiser mocks ‘Get Up’ panelists for anti-Nick Sirianni narrative
"You're the problem."
PTI’s Tony Kornheiser, Pablo Torre go outside the box with Luka Dončić debate
"The first game is where you are going to feel how much those fans feel betrayed and how much pain they have."
Pablo Torre lauds PTI for being ahead of its time
"PTI is one of the brilliantly engineered formats."
Mike Breen confuses ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ with ‘Pardon the Interruption’
"I don't know why I said Pardon the Interruption."
Michael Wilbon, Tony Kornheiser take shots at ESPN over CFP format, SEC bias
"It's a money play for everybody involved, including this network."
Supersizing ‘Pardon the Interruption’ would be a mistake
Tony Kornheiser says CFP and NFL scheduling competing games is ‘football on football crime’
"This is college football attempting to spit in the eye of the NFL."
‘Pardon the Interruption’ could expand to 60 minutes after ‘Around the Horn’ cancellation
ESPN is bouncing around ideas to replace the departing Around the Horn including an hour-long edition of Pardon the Interruption.
Michael Wilbon takes odd victory lap on Tom Brady as NFL broadcaster
Wilbon is handing himself a W for predicting Brady would be great at Fox, not realizing just how split NFL fans are on the legendary QB's broadcasting start.
Tony Kornheiser claims CFP voters ‘don’t want any Big 12 teams in the Playoff’
"The Big 12 stinks. It's a terrible conference."
‘Pardon the Interruption’ to continue on ESPN ‘for the foreseeable future’
"My Bristol sources insist PTI will continue to anchor ESPN’s afternoon block for the foreseeable future."
‘Pardon the Interruption’ hosts defend Bob Costas against ‘stupid’ critics
Unclear whether Wilbon and Costas actually understand what the criticism actually was of Costas, who appeared to retire on his own terms.
Ted Leonsis slams Michael Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser as ‘cheaters’
"Wilbon was criticizing me for moving 3½ miles — from Phoenix, where he moved 20 years ago."
Jets, Cowboys felt the wrath of Tony Kornheiser, Michael Wilbon on ‘PTI’
"The Jets aren't as good as they, or all of their slurpers, think they are."
Tony Kornheiser: ‘Pete Rose was a sportswriter’s dream’
"It was like he was a human computer. A baseball computer."