Notable Episodes
On November 4, 2002, Around The Horn aired it's first episode. Woody Paige, Jay Marrioti, Bob Ryan, and T.J Simers were the first four panelists to appear on the show. T.J Simers won with 11 points, while Ryan, Mariotti, and Paige were the runners up, respectively.
On July 10, 2007, Around The Horn celebrated the show's 1,000th episode with a highlight package at the beginning of all the best moments of Around the Horn since its first episode. Jay Mariotti won in the showdown in daring fashion. Because it was the 1,000th episode, Mariotti got an extra 3 seconds of face time.
On August 11, 2008, Michael Smith, senior writer for ESPN.com, returned to the show for the first time in nearly a year and went on to win the show with 25 points over Tim Cowlishaw, J. A. Adande and Woody Paige; before the show, Tony Reali said "who's that guy in Boston?". Smith has been in the rotating pool of panelists ever since.
On Halloween, 2008, Woody Paige dressed up as The Joker, Jay Mariotti as Batman, Kevin Blackistone as a doctor and J. A. Adande as Manny Ramirez. Paige went on to defeat Adande in showdown.
On April Fool's Day, 2009, Woody Paige hosted the show, with Reali taking his place as a panelist. Paige took great delight in muting Reali, while constantly deducting points from Reali and rival Mariotti. He changed the rules so the highest point total was eliminated, rather than the lowest, leading to a showdown between Reali and Mariotti. Mariotti won, but Paige quickly muted him and campaigned to be the new host, as Plaschke, Mariotti and Cowlishaw chanted, "Wood-y! Wood-y! Wood-y!" The following April Fool's featured the show being played backwards, with Paige with his Face Time, then subsequent rounds being done in reverse order, with points being deducted and guests being added. Since it was April Fool's Day,none of this happened.
On August 5, 2009, Showdown was between Mariotti and Plaschke, which ended with the final topic about Lou Holtz possibly running for the US Senate. Reali asked both of them who on the panel would make a good congressman. Mariotti, who was in the lead at the time, commented that eliminated panelist Kevin Blackistone would be a great congressman. Due to this, Reali gave the Face Time to Blackistone instead of Mariotti.
On September 8, 2009, Woody Paige defeated Jackie MacMullan to get his 300th career win on Around The Horn. During his 30-second Face Time, he awarded himself a self-made "bronzed" blackboard with 300 written on it, and having one of his production assistants throw confetti on him (some of which got in his mouth and he playfully choked on), and had the same assistant pie him in the face.
On October 20, 2009, Jay Mariotti became the second ATH panelist to get a 300th career win.
On October 30, 2009, the panelists dressed up again for Halloween. This time Paige dressed up as The Wicked Witch of the West, Mariotti as Kate Hudson, Blackistone as Kanye West and Jackie MacMullan as her own Wheaties box.
On January 28, 2010, Cowlishaw got his 200th career win.
On April Fools' Day 2010, Around The Horn celebrated by doing the entire show backwards, beginning with the showdown and ending with the show's intro.
On May 25, 2010, Kevin Blackistone was awarded a record 13 points during the Showdown in a 13-0 shutout of Tim Cowlishaw, the largest margin of victory in Showdown history. In the facetime, Blackistone expressed excitement over the future of prospect Stephen Strasburg of the Washington Nationals.
On June 24, 2010, Woody Paige had the lowest point total after "Buy or Sell". When Reali asked him if he had any last words, Bob Ryan, who thought that he himself had the lowest point total, responded. Reali decided that if Ryan wanted to leave the show that badly, he could go. Reali subtracted enough points so that Ryan was in last place, then eliminated him.
On August 20, 2010, Jay Mariotti made his last appearance on the show, scoring 33 points, and losing in the lightning round. Around the Horn went on a 10 day hiatus, but Mariotti was arrested for domestic violence involving his girlfriend on August 21, 2010.
On August 30, 2010, Tim Cowlishaw went into the first word with -57 points. Tony subtracted them from Tim because of an incorrect report about Darrelle Revis. This is the second lowest point total ever at one moment. Also,they returned with a new room.
On September 7, 2010, Woody Paige celebrated his 1500th appearance on the show.
On September 27, 2010, Around The Horn was broadcast for the first time in HD. The SD version is widescreen 16:9. The format of the show remained the same, however, the graphics were noticeably upgraded along with a few other tweaks in the show's appearance. Bill Plaschke defeated Paige for the first win under the HD format.
On the 2010 Halloween episode of Around The Horn, Tim Cowlishaw impersonated Al Davis, Kevin Blackistone dressed as Ron Washington, Bill Plaschke was a Chilean miner and Michael Smith was Agent Smith from The Matrix trilogy. Tim Cowlishaw won the showdown against Michael Smith and scored 49 points in the main game. All panelists except Bill Plaschke (who was eliminated after Buy or Sell) had over 40 points.
On January 10, 2011, Bill Plaschke was the first panelist in Around The Horn history using the regular format to enter the Lightning Round with -15 points. This came with a missed pick in the NFC Wildcard Game against the Saints and Seahawks.
On January 27, 2011, Bob Ryan earned his 100th career win after defeating J.A. Adande in the Showdown.
On February 11, 2011, Reali decided to mix up the showdown a little bit. He announced that the day's Showdown would be called "Final Schmeopardy". The point system was played in the style of the "Final Jeopardy" round of the quiz show "Jeopardy!". The topic was introduced, a Jeopardy-style title card was shown, and Reali discussed the topic as normal. He then told both panelists to write down the number of points that they wanted to wager on that question. Whomever Reali judged to have given the better answer was awarded the number of points that they wagered. Whoever "lost" the topic lost the number of points that they wagered. After three questions, Bill Plaschke defeated Jackie MacMullan in a come-from-behind victory with a score of 29 to 25. With 29 points, Plaschke set a record for points earned in the Showdown.
On February 28, 2011, Tim Cowlishaw earned his 250th victory by beating Michael Smith in Showdown, who himself was looking for his 100th victory.
On March 4, 2011, Michael Smith earned his 100th victory by beating Tim Cowlishaw in the Showdown with a score of 2-1.
On March 10, 2011, Woody Paige made his 1600th appearance.
On April 27, 2011, Bob Ryan made his 300th appearance.
On June 3, 2011, Woody Paige was the first panelist going into the Showdown in the regular format with -3 points. Also, Tim Cowlishaw was the only panelist in positive points because Paige, Bomani Jones, and Bill Plaschke said the NBA Finals was over after two games.
On June 13, 2011, Reali penalized Bill Plaschke, Woody Paige, and Kevin Blackistone, who all had claimed that they would prefer to take on the Dallas Mavericks in the second round in the NBA playoffs. The Mavericks won the NBA Finals the night before. As a result, Plaschke started with -60 points (the lowest ever in Around the Horn history), Paige started with -46 points, and Blackistone started with -31 points. Jackie MacMullan (who was not on the aforementioned episode) started with 15 points. MacMullan wound up with sixty points. Strangely, MacMullan was awarded the victory after the Lightning Round when both Blackistone and Paige failed to break even, and she was the only person in the Showdown. She was awarded two points on top of her earlier points for her solo performance for a total of 62 points and fell behind the ATH points record by 2 points.
On July 7, 2011, J.A. Adande earned his 200th victory, becoming the fourth panelist with 200 victories after Paige, Cowlishaw, and Mariotti.
On August 1, 2011, Around The Horn started skipping the panelist intro. Around The Horn continued to skip the panelist intros except on Halloween and the Around The Horn Tournament of Champions Shows.
On August 5, 2011, Gene Wojciechowski made his return to the show as a panelist.
On August 30, 2011, Bill Plaschke got his 200th win, becoming the fifth panelist to do so.
On September 22, 2011, Jackie MacMullan earned her 100th win, becoming the ninth panelist with 100 victories.
On September 26, 2011, Kevin Blackistone celebrated his 600th appearance on the show.
On October 3, 2011, Woody Paige made his 1700th appeararence
On the 2011 Halloween Edition J.A. Adande was dressed in black for the NBA Lockout, Tim Cowlishaw as Ron Swason, Jackie Macmullan as Lady Gaga, and Woody Paige as a Dysfunctional Red Sox Clubhouse. Paige defeated Cowlishaw in showdown.
On January 9, 2012, Bob Ryan started out the show with -29 points for giving the Denver Broncos no chance of winning on January 6. Denver won their football game over the Pittsburgh Steelers. Woody Paige would go on to break Michael Smith's previous scoring record with 71. In addition, Paige scored 15 points in the Showdown.
On January 19, 2012, Tim Cowlishaw began the show with -50 points for what Reali referred to as a "pre-show violation." A video posted on the show's YouTube page revealed that Cowlishaw had suggested that fellow panelist Jackie MacMullan had botox.
On February 7, 2012, Michael Smith defeated Woody Paige in the Showdown despite the score showing Smith losing 1-2, after Paige made a comment earlier in the show that "points don't matter", referring to Kobe Bryant becoming fifth on the NBA's all-time scoring list.
On February 8, 2012, Woody Paige earned his 400th win.
On April 4, 2012, for scoring in the 100th percentile in the ESPN Tournament Challenge for the NCAA tournament, Bill Plaschke received 3 free un-eliminations, giving him the power to avoid elimination three times. On April 13, he used his first to knock out Bomani Jones, and would go on to win the Showdown aganist Tim Cowlishaw. He used his second on June 27, again knocking out Bomani Jones, but this time he lost in the Lightning Round.
On June 25, 2012, Tim Cowlishaw got his 300th career win.
On the 2012 Halloween episode Bill Plaschke was a leprecon, Woody Paige was in a Hitchcock Movie, Tim Cowlishaw was the Ghost of Al Davis, and Israel Gutierrez was Barack Obama. Cowlishaw defeated Gutierrez in Showdown.
On November 2, 2012, Around the Horn aired a tenth anniversary show. The episode featured the return of original host Max Kellerman and the Disembodied Voice.
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