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Around the Horn | |
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Genre |
Sports
talk Panel show Debate |
Presented by |
Tony Reali (2004–present) Max Kellerman (2002–2004) |
Starring | See panelists |
Theme music composer | Umphrey's McGee (2015–2022) |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 21 |
No. of episodes | 4,491 (as of 2022) [1] |
Production | |
Executive producers | James Cohen Erik Rydholm Mark Shapiro |
Producers |
Dan Farmer Aaron Solomon Bill Wolff |
Running time | 30 minutes (with commercials) |
Original release | |
Network | ESPN |
Release | November 4, 2002 present | –
Around the Horn (ATH) is an American sports roundtable discussion show, conducted in the style of a panel game, produced by ESPN. The show premiered on November 4, 2002, as a replacement for Unscripted with Chris Connelly, and has aired daily at 5:00 p.m. ET on ESPN ever since. The show has been recorded in New York City since September 8, 2014, and has had over 4,000 episodes aired as of 2020. The program emanated from Washington, D.C., where it was located in the same facility as Pardon the Interruption (PTI). Production still is based in Washington, D.C. [2] The moderator for the show is Tony Reali, who has hosted the program since 2004, replacing Max Kellerman, and also served as the statistician on Pardon the Interruption until the show's relocation to New York.
Around the Horn premiered on November 4, 2002. [3] From its premiere until January 30, 2004, the show was hosted by Max Kellerman, who at the time was largely known strictly as a contributor to ESPN's Friday Night Fights. In late 2003, Kellerman announced that he would depart from the network for Fox Sports; [4] [5] after the show tried out several replacements, current host Tony Reali was named the permanent host on February 2, 2004, three days after Kellerman's last episode aired. [6] As of September 23, 2019, Woody Paige has the most wins in the history of the show, with more than six hundred. [7] Despite early negative reviews due to its now-defunct argumentative formatting, [8] the show has lasted more than twenty years on the air, remaining a staple on ESPN. [9] The show became less combative and more playful over the years, and in 2018, changed its look with augmented reality of the panel with Reali standing in an enhanced studio at ESPN's South Street Seaport studios with a continuation of the relaxed tone of the show since the mid-2010s.
The show went on hiatus from March 16, 2020, to May 8, 2020, as a result of a national emergency being declared due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused the suspension of sports leagues around the world. Between May 11, 2020, and July 10, 2020, Around the Horn aired for 20 minutes with commercials at 4:40 p.m. EDT as Around the Home under a new format where Tony Reali, along with three panelists, discussed sports issues from their own homes. The Around the Home format became semipermanent beginning with the July 13, 2020 episode, which saw the show expand back to its normal length. The show returned to its regular format when it returned to the studio in September 2020, although the Around the Home format is still used occasionally.
The original set was in the same Atlantic Video complex as the set for Pardon the Interruption. [10] It featured the host's desk with the point triggers [11] and mute buttons. [12] The judge of the show scores four panelists, that are shown on four different screens. [13] Behind the host's desk was a map of the contiguous United States of America with the cities the sportswriters on the show appeared from. The map, divided into time zones, displayed the names of five newspapers representing each time zone. The Los Angeles Times represented the Pacific Time Zone, the Denver Post the Mountain Time Zone, the Dallas Morning News and Chicago Sun-Times both represented the Central Time Zone, and the Boston Globe represented the Eastern Time Zone. This was to create a regionally biased discussion, but this was later phased out.
When panelist Woody Paige was based in New York, the logo of Cold Pizza was added to the Eastern Time Zone side of the map as Paige also appeared on that program. Eventually, the logo of the Boston Globe was replaced by the word "Boston" as many of the contributors from Boston were no longer writing for the Globe. The map was eventually revised in this way for the other cities on the map, but there cities of other contributors were not added to the board (possibly due to a lack of space) before the map was removed. Panelists still appear from left to right as on a map of the United States, from the westernmost on the left to the easternmost on the right.
On September 27, 2010, Around the Horn and Pardon the Interruption began broadcasting in high definition and moved from the Atlantic Video complex to facilities in the ABC News Washington bureau, where high definition sets were built for both shows. [14] In 2014, Reali relocated to New York, with a studio built in ABC's Times Square Studios. [15] In 2018, in conjunction with the conclusion of Reali's work on Good Morning America, the show moved to ESPN's South Street Seaport Studios with an enhanced set featuring augmented reality.
Each panelist appears either in the offices of their newspaper, in front of a screen representing the city in which they are located, or in another studio. Dallas, Denver, and Los Angeles (when Bill Plaschke is appearing) still use their newspaper offices as studio space while Washington, Miami, Chicago, and Boston each have their own screens. (Los Angeles employs this as well when J.A. Adande is a panelist.) Newspaper office space is rarely used in today's iteration.
The current Around the Horn format consists of the following:
Before the format of the show was changed in early 2003, the format was similar, wherein the first two rounds were largely the same but with different titles. There was a bigger difference after that. The show ran like so:
Despite the change in format, Reali still occasionally announces "ten topics, one winner" at the beginning of the show regardless of the number of topics.
This format ran from 2003 thru 2015:
As of 6/11/2024. [16] City (or cities) where the panelist is based are next to their name.
Statistics correct as of July 2, 2024. [20]
Name | # wins | # appearances | winning % | Special Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Woody Paige | 675 | 2,931 | 23.0% | All-time leader in wins & appearances, 2015 Tournament of Champions; 70-70 versus Bob Ryan; Winner of ATH's 20th Anniversary show. |
Tim Cowlishaw | 537 | 2,051 | 26.2% | First show: November 5, 2002; 2018 & 2021 Tournament of Champions; 82-79 versus Woody Paige; 20-8 versus Frank Isola, fourth lowest score (-99) |
Bill Plaschke | 422 | 1,727 | 24.4% | First show: April 16, 2003; 2014 Tournament of Champions, third lowest score (-108), 74-66 versus Woody Paige, 21-14 versus Frank Isola, 13-9 versus Sarah Spain |
Kevin Blackistone | 376 | 1,570 | 23.9% | First show: January 21, 2003; 2011 Tournament of Champions, 39-38 versus Bill Plaschke |
J. A. Adande | 333 | 1,279 | 26.0% | First show: November 11, 2002; 2012 Tournament of Champions, 44-37 versus Tim Cowlishaw |
Jay Mariotti | 329 | 1,549 | 21.2% | Hasn't appeared on the show since August 2010; Consecutive shows record (265 episodes); Won 2009 April Fools episode hosted by Woody Paige, only episode to be scored with golf score procedure (lowest points wins). |
Jackie MacMullan | 258 | 890 | 29.0% | First show: November 12, 2002; Lowest score (-474); 37-35 versus Woody Paige; Last show 12/22/2021, retired after 19 years on ATH and 39 years at ESPN |
Israel Gutierrez | 226.5 | 866 | 26.2% | First show: March 18, 2008; 2023 Tournament of Champions |
Bob Ryan | 219 | 745 | 29.2% | 8-6 versus Bill Plaschke |
Frank Isola | 178 | 851 | 20.9% | First show: 2013, 2016 Tournament of Champions, 7-5 versus Jorge Sedano, 3-1 versus Emily Kaplan |
Bomani Jones | 159 | 560 | 28.4% | First show: October 22, 2010; Highest Point Avg.: 23.4 Pts/Show (minimum 100 appearances) |
Michael Smith | 136 | 451 | 30.2% | First show: October 9, 2003 |
Pablo S. Torre | 130.75 | 573 | 22.8% | First show: October 25, 2012; 2013 Tournament of Champions, most points ever (136) most points lost (-336) second lowest score (-286) 9-5 versus Sarah Spain |
Sarah Spain | 125.5 | 433 | 29.0% | First show: February 25, 2016; 2017 & 2020 Tournament of Champions; highest score (74); 11-9-1 versus Woody Paige, 14-2 versus Tim Cowlishaw |
Clinton Yates | 125 | 481 | 26.0% | First show: September 6, 2017 |
Mina Kimes | 80 | 272 | 29.4% | First show: March 30, 2017 |
Ramona Shelburne | 58 | 212 | 27.4% | First show: July 2016 |
Jorge Sedano | 43.5 | 157 | 27.7% | First show: October 19, 2018 |
Kate Fagan | 41 | 157 | 26.1% | First show: October 22, 2014 [21] |
Courtney Cronin | 37 | 124 | 29.8% | First show: June 1, 2022; Won in her debut on the show, First rookie panelist to win Tournament of Champions (2022); Highest winning percentage (minimum 100 appearances) |
Michael Holley | 34 | 120 | 28.3% | |
Emily Kaplan | 34 | 125 | 27.2% | First show: May 10, 2019 |
Harry Lyles Jr. | 33 | 158 | 20.9% | First show: October 12, 2021; Lowest active winning percentage (minimum 100 appearances) |
Justin Tinsley | 33 | 130 | 25.4% | First show: January 28, 2021 |
David Dennis Jr. | 32 | 140 | 22.9% | First show: May 4, 2022; Record for lowest points in a Showdown (-25). |
Jemele Hill | 22 | 78 | 28.2% | |
Monica McNutt | 20 | 83 | 24.1% | First show: February 17, 2021 |
Elle Duncan | 19 | 63 | 30.2% | First show: June 22, 2020 |
Jim Armstrong | 18 | 75 | 24.0% | |
Kevin Clark | 14 | 41 | 34.1% | First show: September 22, 2023; Won in his debut on the show. |
T. J. Simers | 10 | 65 | 15.4% | Winner of the first Around the Horn episode |
Joon Lee | 10 | 49 | 20.4% | First show: April 28, 2021 |
Gene Wojciechowski | 9 | 44 | 20.4% | |
Marcel Louis-Jacques | 9 | 36 | 25.0% | First show: June 20, 2023; Won in his debut on the show. |
Bill Barnwell | 6 | 37 | 16.2% | First show: September 15, 2023 |
Josh Elliott | 5 | 23 | 21.7% | |
Charlie Pierce | 5 | 13 | 38.5% | |
LZ Granderson | 4 | 19 | 21.1% | |
Jon "Stugotz" Weiner | 4 | 16 | 25.0% | First show: April 1, 2019 |
Lindsey Thiry | 3 | 10 | 30.0% | First show: September 29, 2023; Won in her debut on the show. |
Domonique Foxworth | 3 | 8 | 37.5% | First show: May 9, 2019 |
David Jacoby | 3 | 5 | 60.0% | First show: September 13, 2019 |
Tony Reali | 2 | 7 | 28.6% | |
Adam Schefter | 2 | 5 | 40.0% | |
Kimberley A. Martin | 2 | 4 | 50.0% | First show: December 15, 2021 |
Martenzie Johnson | 2 | 7 | 28.6% | First show: February 23, 2023; Won in his debut on the show. |
Richard Justice | 1 | 5 | 20.0% | |
Dianna Russini | 1 | 4 | 25.0% | First show: June 27, 2019 |
Jen Lada | 1 | 4 | 25.0% | First show: June 12, 2024; Won in her debut on the show. |
Mark Cuban | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | Guest Panelist |
Lil Wayne | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | Guest Panelist |
Bruce Arthur | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | First Canadian Panelist, First Canadian Winner |
Malika Andrews | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | First show: December 12, 2019 |
Christine Williamson | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | First show: October 3, 2023; Won in her debut on the show. |
John Powers | 0 | 5 | 0.0% | |
Dan Shanoff | 0 | 5 | 0.0% | |
Ron Borges | 0 | 4 | 0.0% | |
Jean Jacques Taylor | 0 | 4 | 0.0% | |
Mark Kiszla | 0 | 2 | 0.0% | |
Andy Katz | 0 | 1 | 0.0% | |
Bob Glauber | 0 | 1 | 0.0% |
This article needs additional citations for
verification. (February 2016) |
Around the Horn | |
---|---|
![]() Around the Horn logo | |
Genre |
Sports
talk Panel show Debate |
Presented by |
Tony Reali (2004–present) Max Kellerman (2002–2004) |
Starring | See panelists |
Theme music composer | Umphrey's McGee (2015–2022) |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 21 |
No. of episodes | 4,491 (as of 2022) [1] |
Production | |
Executive producers | James Cohen Erik Rydholm Mark Shapiro |
Producers |
Dan Farmer Aaron Solomon Bill Wolff |
Running time | 30 minutes (with commercials) |
Original release | |
Network | ESPN |
Release | November 4, 2002 present | –
Around the Horn (ATH) is an American sports roundtable discussion show, conducted in the style of a panel game, produced by ESPN. The show premiered on November 4, 2002, as a replacement for Unscripted with Chris Connelly, and has aired daily at 5:00 p.m. ET on ESPN ever since. The show has been recorded in New York City since September 8, 2014, and has had over 4,000 episodes aired as of 2020. The program emanated from Washington, D.C., where it was located in the same facility as Pardon the Interruption (PTI). Production still is based in Washington, D.C. [2] The moderator for the show is Tony Reali, who has hosted the program since 2004, replacing Max Kellerman, and also served as the statistician on Pardon the Interruption until the show's relocation to New York.
Around the Horn premiered on November 4, 2002. [3] From its premiere until January 30, 2004, the show was hosted by Max Kellerman, who at the time was largely known strictly as a contributor to ESPN's Friday Night Fights. In late 2003, Kellerman announced that he would depart from the network for Fox Sports; [4] [5] after the show tried out several replacements, current host Tony Reali was named the permanent host on February 2, 2004, three days after Kellerman's last episode aired. [6] As of September 23, 2019, Woody Paige has the most wins in the history of the show, with more than six hundred. [7] Despite early negative reviews due to its now-defunct argumentative formatting, [8] the show has lasted more than twenty years on the air, remaining a staple on ESPN. [9] The show became less combative and more playful over the years, and in 2018, changed its look with augmented reality of the panel with Reali standing in an enhanced studio at ESPN's South Street Seaport studios with a continuation of the relaxed tone of the show since the mid-2010s.
The show went on hiatus from March 16, 2020, to May 8, 2020, as a result of a national emergency being declared due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused the suspension of sports leagues around the world. Between May 11, 2020, and July 10, 2020, Around the Horn aired for 20 minutes with commercials at 4:40 p.m. EDT as Around the Home under a new format where Tony Reali, along with three panelists, discussed sports issues from their own homes. The Around the Home format became semipermanent beginning with the July 13, 2020 episode, which saw the show expand back to its normal length. The show returned to its regular format when it returned to the studio in September 2020, although the Around the Home format is still used occasionally.
The original set was in the same Atlantic Video complex as the set for Pardon the Interruption. [10] It featured the host's desk with the point triggers [11] and mute buttons. [12] The judge of the show scores four panelists, that are shown on four different screens. [13] Behind the host's desk was a map of the contiguous United States of America with the cities the sportswriters on the show appeared from. The map, divided into time zones, displayed the names of five newspapers representing each time zone. The Los Angeles Times represented the Pacific Time Zone, the Denver Post the Mountain Time Zone, the Dallas Morning News and Chicago Sun-Times both represented the Central Time Zone, and the Boston Globe represented the Eastern Time Zone. This was to create a regionally biased discussion, but this was later phased out.
When panelist Woody Paige was based in New York, the logo of Cold Pizza was added to the Eastern Time Zone side of the map as Paige also appeared on that program. Eventually, the logo of the Boston Globe was replaced by the word "Boston" as many of the contributors from Boston were no longer writing for the Globe. The map was eventually revised in this way for the other cities on the map, but there cities of other contributors were not added to the board (possibly due to a lack of space) before the map was removed. Panelists still appear from left to right as on a map of the United States, from the westernmost on the left to the easternmost on the right.
On September 27, 2010, Around the Horn and Pardon the Interruption began broadcasting in high definition and moved from the Atlantic Video complex to facilities in the ABC News Washington bureau, where high definition sets were built for both shows. [14] In 2014, Reali relocated to New York, with a studio built in ABC's Times Square Studios. [15] In 2018, in conjunction with the conclusion of Reali's work on Good Morning America, the show moved to ESPN's South Street Seaport Studios with an enhanced set featuring augmented reality.
Each panelist appears either in the offices of their newspaper, in front of a screen representing the city in which they are located, or in another studio. Dallas, Denver, and Los Angeles (when Bill Plaschke is appearing) still use their newspaper offices as studio space while Washington, Miami, Chicago, and Boston each have their own screens. (Los Angeles employs this as well when J.A. Adande is a panelist.) Newspaper office space is rarely used in today's iteration.
The current Around the Horn format consists of the following:
Before the format of the show was changed in early 2003, the format was similar, wherein the first two rounds were largely the same but with different titles. There was a bigger difference after that. The show ran like so:
Despite the change in format, Reali still occasionally announces "ten topics, one winner" at the beginning of the show regardless of the number of topics.
This format ran from 2003 thru 2015:
As of 6/11/2024. [16] City (or cities) where the panelist is based are next to their name.
Statistics correct as of July 2, 2024. [20]
Name | # wins | # appearances | winning % | Special Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Woody Paige | 675 | 2,931 | 23.0% | All-time leader in wins & appearances, 2015 Tournament of Champions; 70-70 versus Bob Ryan; Winner of ATH's 20th Anniversary show. |
Tim Cowlishaw | 537 | 2,051 | 26.2% | First show: November 5, 2002; 2018 & 2021 Tournament of Champions; 82-79 versus Woody Paige; 20-8 versus Frank Isola, fourth lowest score (-99) |
Bill Plaschke | 422 | 1,727 | 24.4% | First show: April 16, 2003; 2014 Tournament of Champions, third lowest score (-108), 74-66 versus Woody Paige, 21-14 versus Frank Isola, 13-9 versus Sarah Spain |
Kevin Blackistone | 376 | 1,570 | 23.9% | First show: January 21, 2003; 2011 Tournament of Champions, 39-38 versus Bill Plaschke |
J. A. Adande | 333 | 1,279 | 26.0% | First show: November 11, 2002; 2012 Tournament of Champions, 44-37 versus Tim Cowlishaw |
Jay Mariotti | 329 | 1,549 | 21.2% | Hasn't appeared on the show since August 2010; Consecutive shows record (265 episodes); Won 2009 April Fools episode hosted by Woody Paige, only episode to be scored with golf score procedure (lowest points wins). |
Jackie MacMullan | 258 | 890 | 29.0% | First show: November 12, 2002; Lowest score (-474); 37-35 versus Woody Paige; Last show 12/22/2021, retired after 19 years on ATH and 39 years at ESPN |
Israel Gutierrez | 226.5 | 866 | 26.2% | First show: March 18, 2008; 2023 Tournament of Champions |
Bob Ryan | 219 | 745 | 29.2% | 8-6 versus Bill Plaschke |
Frank Isola | 178 | 851 | 20.9% | First show: 2013, 2016 Tournament of Champions, 7-5 versus Jorge Sedano, 3-1 versus Emily Kaplan |
Bomani Jones | 159 | 560 | 28.4% | First show: October 22, 2010; Highest Point Avg.: 23.4 Pts/Show (minimum 100 appearances) |
Michael Smith | 136 | 451 | 30.2% | First show: October 9, 2003 |
Pablo S. Torre | 130.75 | 573 | 22.8% | First show: October 25, 2012; 2013 Tournament of Champions, most points ever (136) most points lost (-336) second lowest score (-286) 9-5 versus Sarah Spain |
Sarah Spain | 125.5 | 433 | 29.0% | First show: February 25, 2016; 2017 & 2020 Tournament of Champions; highest score (74); 11-9-1 versus Woody Paige, 14-2 versus Tim Cowlishaw |
Clinton Yates | 125 | 481 | 26.0% | First show: September 6, 2017 |
Mina Kimes | 80 | 272 | 29.4% | First show: March 30, 2017 |
Ramona Shelburne | 58 | 212 | 27.4% | First show: July 2016 |
Jorge Sedano | 43.5 | 157 | 27.7% | First show: October 19, 2018 |
Kate Fagan | 41 | 157 | 26.1% | First show: October 22, 2014 [21] |
Courtney Cronin | 37 | 124 | 29.8% | First show: June 1, 2022; Won in her debut on the show, First rookie panelist to win Tournament of Champions (2022); Highest winning percentage (minimum 100 appearances) |
Michael Holley | 34 | 120 | 28.3% | |
Emily Kaplan | 34 | 125 | 27.2% | First show: May 10, 2019 |
Harry Lyles Jr. | 33 | 158 | 20.9% | First show: October 12, 2021; Lowest active winning percentage (minimum 100 appearances) |
Justin Tinsley | 33 | 130 | 25.4% | First show: January 28, 2021 |
David Dennis Jr. | 32 | 140 | 22.9% | First show: May 4, 2022; Record for lowest points in a Showdown (-25). |
Jemele Hill | 22 | 78 | 28.2% | |
Monica McNutt | 20 | 83 | 24.1% | First show: February 17, 2021 |
Elle Duncan | 19 | 63 | 30.2% | First show: June 22, 2020 |
Jim Armstrong | 18 | 75 | 24.0% | |
Kevin Clark | 14 | 41 | 34.1% | First show: September 22, 2023; Won in his debut on the show. |
T. J. Simers | 10 | 65 | 15.4% | Winner of the first Around the Horn episode |
Joon Lee | 10 | 49 | 20.4% | First show: April 28, 2021 |
Gene Wojciechowski | 9 | 44 | 20.4% | |
Marcel Louis-Jacques | 9 | 36 | 25.0% | First show: June 20, 2023; Won in his debut on the show. |
Bill Barnwell | 6 | 37 | 16.2% | First show: September 15, 2023 |
Josh Elliott | 5 | 23 | 21.7% | |
Charlie Pierce | 5 | 13 | 38.5% | |
LZ Granderson | 4 | 19 | 21.1% | |
Jon "Stugotz" Weiner | 4 | 16 | 25.0% | First show: April 1, 2019 |
Lindsey Thiry | 3 | 10 | 30.0% | First show: September 29, 2023; Won in her debut on the show. |
Domonique Foxworth | 3 | 8 | 37.5% | First show: May 9, 2019 |
David Jacoby | 3 | 5 | 60.0% | First show: September 13, 2019 |
Tony Reali | 2 | 7 | 28.6% | |
Adam Schefter | 2 | 5 | 40.0% | |
Kimberley A. Martin | 2 | 4 | 50.0% | First show: December 15, 2021 |
Martenzie Johnson | 2 | 7 | 28.6% | First show: February 23, 2023; Won in his debut on the show. |
Richard Justice | 1 | 5 | 20.0% | |
Dianna Russini | 1 | 4 | 25.0% | First show: June 27, 2019 |
Jen Lada | 1 | 4 | 25.0% | First show: June 12, 2024; Won in her debut on the show. |
Mark Cuban | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | Guest Panelist |
Lil Wayne | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | Guest Panelist |
Bruce Arthur | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | First Canadian Panelist, First Canadian Winner |
Malika Andrews | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | First show: December 12, 2019 |
Christine Williamson | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | First show: October 3, 2023; Won in her debut on the show. |
John Powers | 0 | 5 | 0.0% | |
Dan Shanoff | 0 | 5 | 0.0% | |
Ron Borges | 0 | 4 | 0.0% | |
Jean Jacques Taylor | 0 | 4 | 0.0% | |
Mark Kiszla | 0 | 2 | 0.0% | |
Andy Katz | 0 | 1 | 0.0% | |
Bob Glauber | 0 | 1 | 0.0% |