KDKA Sports Showdown is a weekly Pittsburgh-based sports talk show airing at 11:35 Sunday nights on KDKA-TV Pittsburgh.
The show is hosted by Bob Pompeani or Jory Rand, both from KDKA-TV. Frequent guests include Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Columnist Ron Cook, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette web blogger Bob Smizik, Sports Radio 970AM talk show host Joe Bendel, Fox Sports Net Pittsburgh reporter Paul Alexander ESPN Radio 1250 Steelers Beat Reporter Ken Laird, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Penguins Beat Writer Rob Rossi and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette College sports reporter Paul Zeise and Cody "Coby" Kolaja.
Former Panelists include former KDKA-TV sports anchor John Steigerwald, ESPN Radio 1250 personality Tim Benz, and WPGB sports host Ellis Cannon.
Since its debut in 1998, Showdown has held a significant lead over the competition, including WTAE-TV's Action Sports Sunday, by several ratings points. Initially, the show was supposed to last only through the NFL Season, but because of its great success, it was expanded to air each week year-round.
Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)