Around Horn ATH is an American round table discussion event held in a panel game style produced by ESPN. The show aired on November 4, 2002 as a replacement for Written with Chris Connelly and has been aired daily at 5 pm on ESPN East ever since.
ATH was recorded in New York City as of September 8, 2014. Prior to that the program came from Washington, DC, where it was located in the same studio as Pardon the Interruption (PTI).
The moderator for ATH is Tony Reali. He has hosted the program since 2004, and until relocation to New York, Reali is also a statistician at PTI.
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History
Around the Horn aired on November 4, 2002. From its premiere until January 30, 2004, the event was hosted by Max Kellerman, who was at that time widely known as a contributor of ESPN Friday Night Fights. Kellerman departed from the network for Fox Sports and after the show tried several substitutes, the current host Tony Reali was named the permanent host on 2 February 2004. In August 2017, Woody Paige had the most wins in show history, with over five hundred. Despite the initial negative reviews due to the argument format, the show has lasted more than fifteen years in the air, remains a staple on ESPN.
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Settings
The original set is in the same Atlantic Video complex defined for Pardon the Interruption . It displays the host table with trigger points and mute buttons. The judges of this event produced four panelists, which were shown on four different screens. Behind the host table there is a map of the United States adjacent to the cities where the sports writers at the show came from. Maps, divided into time zones, displayed the names of five newspapers representing each time zone. The Los Angeles Times represents the Pacific Time Zone, Denver Post Mountain Time Zone, Dallas Morning News and Chicago Sun-Times > both representing the Central Time Zone, and Boston Globe representing the Eastern Time Zone. This is to create a regional biased discussion, but this is then removed.
When New York-based Woody Paige panelist, the Cold Pizza logo was added to the Eastern Time Zone side of the map because Paige also appeared on the program. Finally, the Boston Globe logo was replaced by the word "Boston" because many contributors from Boston no longer write for the Globe. The map was eventually revised in this way for other cities on the map, but there were other contributing cities that were not added to the boards (probably due to lack of space) before the map was removed. Panelists still appear from left to right as on the United States map, from the westernmost to the left to the far east on the right.
On September 27, 2010, Around the Horn and Pardon the Interruption began airing in high definition and moved from the Atlantic Video complex to a facility at ABC News Washington news agency, where the high set the definition is built for both events.
Each panelist appears in their newspaper office, 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 appears) still use their newspaper office as a studio space while Washington, Miami, Chicago and Boston each have their own screens. (Los Angeles uses this too when J.A. Adande is a panelist.)
Rounds
The current format of Around The Horn consists of the following:
- Introduction: Three sports titles to be discussed during the show will be previewed; this is followed by an open event.
- First Word: The latest sports title is discussed. Panelists provide detailed arguments and can also raise objections to other panelists. This round lasts until the first commercial break.
- Buy or Sell: A quick-fire segment in which panelists are asked to "buy" or "sell" (support or oppose) three different concepts, also taken from current sports headlines. In the first few months of this format and sometimes used with three panelists, four topics are discussed, with each having a shorter deadline to adjust between the first and second ad breaks. In case a change of assessment occurs during the first commercial break, Reali will notify the score and announce a panelist or panelist committing a "commercial break violation" before the first "Buy or Sell" topic. After this round, the 2 lowest rating panels are eliminated.
- Showdown: Mentioned above, the remaining two columnists are in favor of whatever sports or cultural news is left. There are two or three questions, depending on the amount of time left. Typically, the western panelists go first for the first topic, with others speaking for the second half. The panelists then took turns earlier for the remaining topics. Each topic is counted between 15 and 40 seconds each depending on the time remaining. Reali usually gives a panelist one point per topic, although sometimes he gives more than one point or reduces points depending on the strength or weakness of the argument. There was only one confrontation and four confrontations.
- Face Time: The winner of the showdown and therefore the winner of that particular episode gets about 30 seconds (more or less depending on the time left in the showframe) to talk about whatever he or she wants to discuss. Often these are related to sports, but often their own personal lives or issues in pop culture or news are discussed. Lounge music is played in the background when the winner talks. Lounge music is not played in the serious Face Time (death, headlines (both sports and non-sport)).
- Goodbye: Reali says how long until the next episode, for example, "we're resting for half an hour." On Friday, he will sign by saying "a 71-and-a-half hour break." If there is an extended period until the event reappears, Reali might just say, "You're doing the math!"
- Paper Toss: Signature of the show, with Reali squeezing his notes and throwing them at the camera. As he does this, the panelist will often keep chatting in the background when the show is over. Since the summer of 2016, Reali more often throws a paper plane or flicked a paper ball toward the camera.
- Next PTI: This only tells the audience only that: that Pardon the Interruption is next.
Previous format
Before the show format was changed in early 2003, the format was similar, where the first two rounds were mostly the same but with different titles. There is a bigger difference after that. The event went something like this:
- Opening Round: The two biggest headlines today.
- Lightning Rounds: Fast-moving round with four topics where players have to make their points quickly or risk muted by Max Kellerman, the former host. Somewhat similar, though not entirely, to Lightning Round used from 2009 to 2015.
- Bonus Rounds: One last topic, with the panelists trying to get some last-minute points, followed by sports trivia question questions for each panelist, worth five points.
- Medal Round: The panelists get a Face Time equal to the score converted to seconds, in reverse order of their placement. The winner receives a gold medal, second place receives silver, third place gets bronze, and finisher fourth place is given a foil ball. More often than not, due to time constraints, panelists are given less time than they get, or at least one panelist will not be given any time at all. During this round, the panelists can appeal to Unwanted Votes to earn more points.
Despite the changes in the format, Reali still occasionally announces "ten topics, one winner" at the start of the show regardless of the number of topics.
The event of "argument score" by giving points or points deducted from the panelists at the discretion of the host depends on the strengths or weaknesses of their arguments. Giving and point deduction have changed throughout the series. Initially, under the host of Max Kellerman, who damped the cost of a five-point panelist. Later, Kellerman changed the score where the "good" answer received two points, the "great" answer received three, and mute minus three points from the panelist score. Shortly before Kellerman left the show, the Mute was reduced to -1 this time. After Tony Reali took over the show, the number of points randomly assigned or deducted for his wisdom. For example, Reali may provide a point for weak arguments, or many points for very powerful cases supported by statistical information, or not. Points can also be taken for self-promotion, such as boasting about a good column or a successful prediction of annoyance. (According to Reali, "Self-promotion is a mute call mute button!") In addition, complaints about how many points they or other panelists receive, usually resulting in deduction and/or mute. Reali uses the mute button when the panelist interrupts another panelist, starts babbling, or changes his previous opinion about a particular topic. Mute is also given for "prohibited" keywords, such as optical , narration , elite , or problem .
On January 9, 2012, Woody Paige scored a new record with 71 points. Michael Smith has held the record points before the confrontation with 64 on January 20, 2011. The record was set by Jackie MacMullan in 2011. In the episode that aired a day after Stephen Strasburg's debut, Woody Paige entered the showdown with 53 points despite having received a 25-point penalty early on performances for losing bets with Reali. The record for most points in the first half was set by Woody Paige on 41 points on October 30, 2009, the record was broken by Jackie MacMullan on May 12, 2010 with a score of 48, after he received a 25-point bonus to be named the recipient of Media Hall of Fame's Curt Gowdy Media. On 18 November 2011, Woody Paige reclaimed the title for most first-round points and on January 9, 2012, improved the title to 55 points, having received 30 pre-topic points to precisely predict the Denver Broncos win the previous night. The highest margin points that went into Showdown were set on June 13, 2011, with Jackie MacMullan scoring 60 points, 61 points ahead of Kevin Blackistone with -1. The highest margin points after the round are set on June 28, 2013, with Woody Page having 11 points, leading 497 points from Jackie MacMullan, who has -486 points going into Buy or Sell. Furthermore, on June 28, 2013, Jackie MacMullan was eliminated at First Cut with a low score of -474 points, as it started with -500 points because it was wrong to predict that Doc Rivers will not leave the Boston Celtics. His business failures were welcomed by host Tony Reali and other panelists, including Tim Cowlishaw and Woody Paige.
Reali also often makes bets with panelists at sporting events, with panelists earning or losing many points based on results. For example, in the summer of 2007, Woody Paige made a bet with Reali that he could drink a gallon of water for 30 minutes of performances. In the end, the tank was empty. At the next show, a secret camera reveals Paige dumping most of the water into the cooler. Instead of receiving the 100 promised points, Paige received some mute. Paige also received 10 points from Reali on January 22, 2009, while in the previous episode "Face Time" Paige cheered on the New Jersey Institute of Technology basketball team to take their 51-game losing streak, NJIT won, Paige earned the points and won again. Paige used the time to offer "service" to other failing teams at any level.
Reali will sometimes reduce or give points from the panelists who have strong opinions about predictive sports-related issues, which then become the opposite of what actually happens when the topic reappears on the show. For example, on August 30, 2010, the episode, Woody Paige was awarded a point after learning Stephen Strasburg would need Tommy John's operation, this came after Paige docked points in the July 29, 2010 episode when he advised Washington residents. had to close Strasburg on its first trip to the disabled list.
Rapper Snoop Dogg appeared in early 2009 as a "guest" at J.A. Adande lounge and contribute to an NBA-centered discussion, but went after the first segment after seeming to be offended by the remark made by Paige.
Active panelist statistics
Woody Paige, Tim Cowlishaw, Bill Plaschke, J.A. Adande, Kevin Blackistone, Jackie MacMullan, Bob Ryan, Bomani Jones, Israel Gutierrez, Pablo S. Torre, Frank Isola, Kate Fagan, Jemele Hill, Sarah Spain, Ramona Shelburne, Mina Kimes and Clinton Yates won on June 7, 2018, and the winning percentage is all inactive, Michael Smith may be a former panelist because his total victory is wrong because who knows when, listed in the order of first appearances.
- The percentage is rounded to the nearest tenth.
Running a joke
During the long run, he has developed a certain long comedic joke, similar to his brother Pardon the Interruption show. The best known actor is the blackboard in the upper left corner of the Woody Paige box where he writes different intelligent phrases for each segment of events, usually a play of words, such as "I am chalk-bored" (which is sometimes directed to Cowlishaw, Isola, Plaschke , even Reali - and earlier Mariotti). Paige started using it while in New York, then took it to Denver after some show he returned. In January 2010 Paige added electronic tickers under the chalkboard and with greetings or other messages to athletes, audiences, or event competitors. Due to the popularity of the board, he published a book entitled I Almost Ran Out of Cha... and has an adage available for viewing online.
Another joke involving Paige is his friendly rivalry with Mariotti, playing from the real-life dispute of the two men while working in Denver. Both have appeared in more events than other panelists, and are also facing each other at the Showdown at most. Paige often taunted Mariotti on his chalkboard, and also repeatedly silenced him and reduced the points when he hosted the event.
After the title sequence, Reali will greet the audience with lines like "Hey, now!", "That's right!", Or "What do you say? What do you know?" Often, Woody Paige will try to say one of these lines before Reali gets a chance.
Reali began introducing each episode with "The four most famous sports experts in America," incorporating a variety of adjectives sometimes, but not always, related to the sports story of the day. However it has been removed at the turn of the decade. He keeps coming up with an introduction to smart segues based on that day's topic. During Max Kellerman's tenure, Kellerman will start the show by saying, "These four things, I know very well!" Reali used this early in his tenure on the show, but soon adopted his own expression.
Reali is known for routinely holding back panelists for their predictions of match results and other sporting events where correct picks are well rewarded and wrong results result in substantial penalties during subsequent appearances in the program. Especially, Pablo Torre has received punches every year during the NCAA men's basketball tournament where he has several times misjudged 16 seeds to disrupt the number 1 seed. Unlike previous years, Torre predicted the team to beat first-seeded March 2015 tournament March Madness before knowing which sixteen seeds won the first round of "play-in" matches. Following the conclusion of the Super Bowl 50, Woody Paige was the only panelist to be awarded the points to choose the right one (Denver had beaten Carolina) while the remaining panelists throughout the week had been punished according to their first appropriate episode after the event.
Reali also often introduces 'Showdown,' the last segment of the show, with the phrase, "Two men enter, one person..." usually ends with a punch based on the winner. For example, on January 8, 2009, Reali introduced 'Showdown' by saying, "Two people came in, one person won the snuggie."
At the end of each episode, as the camera zooms in and some of the production staff looks, Reali tries to hit the camera with a rolled-up ball of paper from the episode. Reali also ended most of the episodes with the line tag "we were resting twenty-and-a-half-and-a-half hours" (seventy-one and a half if it was a Friday show). When the break is extended between performances, Reali usually says "You do the math".
During the initial show, Disembodied Voice will work on "Around the Horn" in the pause of the program, such as "Will Shaquille O'Neal go, or wander... horn!" Other times, Bodyless Voice will use a word that sounds similar to "around" ("land" or "down", for example) before "... horn!" After Tony Reali was tasked, however, he stopped using the traditional "around... horns!" and instead would say phrases like "My Horn!" or simply, "Horns!" before the commercial break.
The Cowlishaw team disguised as the owner of Al Davis Raiders before his death in October 2011 by using his accent in topics involving Raiders. It was originally seen as amusing by Tony Reali and other panelists, but, at times, was muted due to overuse of the sound imitation. In the August 2011 event, Cowlishaw docked points for not doing imitation during the topic of quarterback Raiders, Terrelle Pryor. Cowlishaw has done other imitations like Sir Alex Ferguson.
Kate Fagan's Face Times often tells about the story featured by her ESPNW colleagues.
Certain panelists have certain jokes associated with it. Woody Paige has become famous for urging others to "See the schedule!" Plaschke will often say "It's over" at the start of the playoff series. For a while, Bomani Jones appears with the WWE Championship belt and the pinky ring before losing the ring, which he calls the "panky rang". When J.A. Adande has won, Time His face is usually spent in "J.A. Adande Lounge" where he mentions the name of the drop-off (and sometimes visited by) celebrities. In recent years, Tim Cowlishaw has been known to try to earn points by starting his argument with "As the only panelists here that really cover [the event]...." Cowlishaw also often adopts teams, calling them "Red Cincinnati I "or" My San Diego Padres ". As the Stanley Cup playoffs close to every NHL season, Cowlishaw will have a miniature replica of the Stanley Cup at the ready, usually during elimination or Face Time. In addition, after introducing Kevin Blackistone, Reali once said "Everything seems to be everything." Blackistone has presented his hands face up and to the left as two newer female panelists join the show and are on a nearby plasma screen soon after Reali greets the new female panelist (Blackistone continues to do so for Kate Fagan and Sarah Spain after their next performance when to his left left). Reali usually says "Hello Jackie/Jemele/Kate/Sarah/Ladies" after introducing female panelists. Jackie will respond politely, calling Reali his full name, Anthony. When Bob Ryan gets knocked out in the future, he starts to mention that another chapter will be added to his Face Times book you've never heard of. Torre often thinks robots take over the world, especially those involving instant replays and game shows.
References
External links
- Official website
- Around the Horn on IMDb
- Around Horn on TV.com
- The list of whiteboard Woody Paige hissed since 2008
- Around Horn PodCenter
- Articles by ESPN Front Row
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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