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The Tony Kornheiser Show

“Where’s Wilbon?”

The Tony Kornheiser Show

This Show Stinks Productions, LLC

Sports, News

4.810.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Tony opens the show by talking about the Nats, a walkoff win for the O’s, some of the big games in college football, and he also talks about the US Open, the Walker Cup, and the passing of Ken Dryden and Davey Johnson.  Michael Wilbon calls in to talk some more about the US Open, and also about the Cubs / Nats series, and about college football and week 1 in the NFL. Dan Graziano calls in to talk about what stood out to him around the NFL in its opening week, and Tony closes out the show by opening up the Mailbag. Songs : Brett Wiscons “What Made Me” ; Dan Bern “Thanks Anisimova” 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, we will talk with Michael Wilbon about the U.S. Open and more,

0:04.0

and we'll talk to Dan Gratziano about the good, the bad, and the ugly from week one in the NFL.

0:07.9

But first, commerce.

0:12.9

Previously, on the Tony Kornheiser show.

0:16.6

Let's talk about how you don't think anyone remembers Jaja Gabor, and the connection is not only do I remember the Gabor sisters,

0:23.2

but my father fixed Jaja's teeth in an emergency situation

0:27.7

while she was in Syracuse back in the day.

0:30.8

So I'm assuming his father was a dentist as opposed to some guy in the street

0:34.3

who put a sign up and said, teeth fix teeth the t the tony cornizer

0:43.5

show is on now all righty then we are loaded today let me do a favor for our dear friend

0:48.7

mori povich to begin with mori's got a podcast called on par with morin povich and the current

0:53.8

episode he talks with mark mowboy who was the editor of Sports Illustrated.

0:58.2

And when Sports Illustrated was at its height, one of three or four editors in chief, when Sports Illustrated, was the dominant sports magazine.

1:06.8

And he talks about, you know, hockey teams behind the Iron Curtain and the swimsuit issue.

1:12.7

Everybody wants to know about the swimsuit issue.

1:14.4

Sure.

1:14.9

You know, and it's good.

1:16.9

I mean, he and Mori are pals, and they've been around a long time.

1:19.9

So if you get a chance to listen to that, after you listen to this, by all means, listen to Mori Popovich.

1:26.2

I have a million things here. The Nats very quickly. The Nats won. All the games against the Cubs were day games. So I didn't watch any. I didn't watch a single pitch. Can't stay up for him? No, the Nets. Couldn't stay up for him. I could stay up. It was day games. I didn't watch them. Other things were going on during the day.

1:46.8

But they won, the Nats won the last two and won the series. We'll ask Wilbon about this, of course. Josh Bell hit a pinch hit home run. How about that? You know, it drives me crazy. How did, they put up like five or six in the ninth, right? their relievers

1:59.4

they're really good now

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