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Kornheiser, a sports columnist for The Washington Post, joined the newspaper in July 1979 as a general assignment reporter in Style and Sports. In 1984 he became a sports columnist, and in 1989 Kornheiser also began writing a weekly Style column.

He has co-hosted Pardon the Interruption (PTI) on ESPN since 2001, and serves as an analyst for ESPN's Monday Night Football with Ron Jaworski and Mike Tirico. Tony Kornheiser joined ESPN Radio in November 1997 as host of The Tony Kornheiser Show, which premiered January 5, 1998. Previously, his show aired exclusively on WTEM-AM in Washington, D.C.

Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon (also a Post columnist) will take PTI on the road each Monday this NFL season from the site of ESPN's MNF games. They will also continue to appear on SportsCenter, which airs their "Big Finish" segment during the opening 15 minutes of the 6 p.m. edition.

Before joining The Washington Post, Kornheiser was a reporter for The New York Times from 1976 to 1979 and for Newsday from 1970 to 1976. He is a 1970 graduate of Harpur College in Binghamton, N.Y., where he studied English.

He is the author of three collections of columns from The Post: I'm Back For More Cash, Bald As I Wanna Be, and Pumping Irony.

Kornheiser and his wife and two children live in Washington.