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Profile of Woody Paige
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27th June 1946 |
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Memphis, Tennessee, USA |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Paige, Jr. (b. June 27, 1946 at Memphis, Tennessee) is a sports columnist for The Denver Post and a regular panelist on the ESPN sports talk program Around The Horn.
Paige was born in Memphis and attended the University of Tennessee. He joined the Denver Post in 1981. After graduating, he began his career with the Whitehaven Press in 1963, and went on to write for the Knoxville Journal, the Memphis Commercial Appeal, and the Rocky Mountain News.
Paige is arguably Around The Horn's most popular panelist. He has an ongoing rivalry with fellow panelist Jay Mariotti of the Chicago Sun-Times (the two had a real feud in the early '90s but have apparently since resolved their differences) and he is, after Mariotti, the show's second-most winning panelist. He is well-known for his opening line jokes (he has appeared with a talking toy parrot, a blow-up doll, a mariachi guitar player, and others in his opening segments), and since the summer of 2004 has had a blackboard where he writes various messages (usually either about himself or attacking host Tony Reali or Mariotti). He also has several catchphrases - such as "Why do I always have to straighten you guys out?" and "LOOK AT THE SCHEDULE!" - which he repeatedly uses on the show, often being mocked by his fellow panelists. He is also famous for his frequent and various malapropisms and mispronunciations of various words on the show.
In July 2004, Paige announced that he was taking a one year leave from the Post to join ESPN2's Cold Pizza. On the show, he is featured in the 1st and Ten segment, where he lightheartly debates Skip Bayless on 10 sports-related topics. He will still write a column for the Sunday Post working out of New York City.
His work has appeared in numerous sports magazines and he is also the author of seven sports books.
Paige is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Selection Committee and is a Baseball Hall of Fame and ESPY Awards voter.
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