Deadspin: Norman Chad

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]

Media Approval Ratings: Norman Chad

Leitch — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:05:32 EDT

First off, don't get our own Rick Chandler started on poker analyst and "comedy" columnist Norman Chad. You really don't want to know.

Actually, we don't mind Chad that much, though he should come up with more original ideas for his columns. (Not that ours was inherently original either.) Chad's big schtick is to riff on his failed marriages, which is probably funnier if you're old enough to have been married a few times and, you know, don't much care anymore.

But poker fans know Chad better than we do, not that they're always dead-on. Alas.

So: Do you like the Norman Chad? Do you not like the Norman Chad? Let's hear it.

An absolutely BRILLIANT idea from Norman ...

Leitch — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:50:11 EDT

An absolutely BRILLIANT idea from Norman Chad: Watching the ESPN family of networks for 24 consecutive hours! [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]