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The Tony Kornheiser Show

“Attention Must Be Paid”

The Tony Kornheiser Show

This Show Stinks Productions, LLC

Sports, News

4.610.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Tony opens the show by talking with Jeanne McManus about the Washington Post shutting down the Sports section amid huge cuts to the Post. Jason La Canfora calls in to give his thoughts on the changes at the Post, and he also talks about all the coaching changes around the NFL, and he talks about what to expect in the Super Bowl. James Carville and Jeff Ma call in with their picks for Sunday, and Tony closes out the show by opening up the Mailbag.Song : Bees Deluxe “The Deep Blue Sea” To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Tony. On today's show, I'll talk with Jeannie McMahonis about the end of the Washington Post Sports section.

0:04.7

Plus, we'll preview to Super Bowl with Jason Lock and Forer. And we'll get our picks as usual from James Carville and Jeff Ma.

0:09.8

But first, let's keep the sales weasels happy.

0:15.1

Previously, on the Tony Cornheiser show.

0:18.8

And we're on two, and Jordan is coming up the other way, seven or eight, whatever it is.

0:24.3

And I see Jordan, and Alan says there's Jordan.

0:27.2

So I start to walk over to Jordan.

0:29.2

So Jordan, he's beaming.

0:31.6

He's beaming.

0:32.9

Gives me a big hug.

0:34.5

And we talk about Wilbot.

0:36.1

We talk about Wilbot.

0:37.3

Of course, the text change. I say, where's you boy? He says, what a Maude doing here before him? And he just makes fun of Wilbon. Of course, call Wilbon and tell him all about this. The Tony Cornizer show is on now. All righty then. There were a couple of things I was going to do today to start the show. I was going to talk about Jenny's ice cream because we got a bunch of Jenny's ice cream. Yes. And I was going to talk about this new candy, Kinder or Kinder Bueno. I don't know how it is exactly pronounced, which we have tried and which the boys have tried. Boys have had a big week. Yeah, but this, yeah, they tried everything.

1:11.9

What a taste.

1:12.7

Ice cream candy.

1:13.7

But there's greater news than this in my life and in the lives of people who work at newspapers

1:19.4

and who live in Washington, D.C., and that is the gutting of the Washington Post Sports

1:26.4

section and Metro section and soon style

1:29.0

section I'm sure books I would have to you out there's no book section I would have done this

1:34.5

on Wednesday except it wasn't official people had heard about it people were afraid of it people

1:41.1

were convinced it was going to happen but but it wasn't official. And the one

1:44.6

thing you learn when you work on a newspaper is get it right. So I held back. But Jeannie joins us now

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