Norman Chad's Not Shedding Any Tears Over Kornheiser's Departure

DAULERIO — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:30:49 EDT

It's been no secret that Washington Post columnist/ poker rim-shot clown Norman Chad and Tony Kornheiser have a strained relationship. Apparently, this stems back to the WaPo days of yore when a young Chad was mentored by a less bald Kornheiser who took him under his combover'd-wing. Through that relationship, careers were launched, more media exposure was attained, and yet somewhere along the lines these two had become estranged. Chad says it happened over an aborted PTI appearance and has never recovered.

After an interview with the On The DL's podcast show yesterday, it appears that the comforting student-teacher friendship these two once had is gone forever:

With Tony [Kornheiser] it’s been more problematic and it goes beyond that, but as I like to tell people about Tony, who I’ve known forever and haven’t now for, actually, several months – if not more than a year – to paraphrase Tony Soprano in The Sopranos, about his mother, ‘Tony is dead to me.’

Looks like somebody has to call a sit-down between these two.

Thoughts on Kornheiser [On The DL]

Bilas Vs. Le Batard: Quien Es Mas Macho?

Leitch — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:10:25 EDT

In case you haven't heard it, here's the exchange on Dan Le Batard's radio show between Le Batard and Jay Bilas. It's possible these two don't like each other very much.

Generally speaking, we think Le Batard is more prone to discuss matters of race in sport than most of his colleagues, something we find commendable. But we kind of agree with Bilas here: We're really not sure what Le Batard's point is supposed to be. If Michael Beasley were white? If Tyler Hansbrough were black? Where you going with this?

That said, Bilas is awfully short fused here; the man's pretty serious for a guy who was in a Dolph Lundgren movie.

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Norman Chad's Not Shedding Any Tears Over Kornheiser's Departure

Bilas Vs. Le Batard: Quien Es Mas Macho?