SubscribeGratuitous Tony Kornheiser entry
You know I always give a shout-out to my man, Mr. Tony, whenever there’s some even tangential Jewish content, so here goes.
In the “Mailtime” segment of the Jan. 25th show:
Kornheiser (reading an email): “[NBA Dallas Mavericks' owner] Mark Cuban says that All-Star weekend in Dallas “will make the Super Bowl look like a bar mitzvah.” Do you agree or disagree?
Michael Wilbon: I don’t know if I can speak about a bar mitzva…but I know what he means. The Super Bowl is this huge event, and more people watch it. But All-Star weekend is the biggest party. It is the biggest party relating to sports in this country, there’s no question about that, Tony. The All-Star game shut down Vegas a couple of years ago….What else does that? It’s not close.
Kornheiser: Ocean’s Eleven shut down Vegas if I remember that movie correctly. Obviously, Cuban must have just cocktail franks at his bar mitzva. It must be a wholly inadequate bar mitzva and he has borne this for 25 years.
Wilbon: How wild do they get?
Kornheiser: Well, I don’t think they get wild enough to shut down Vegas. I don’t know what he’s talking about.
Wilbon: It’s going to be the biggest party of the year in sports.
Kornheiser: Great. I hope many rabbis and cantors come so that Cuban will feel good.
Cuban is Jewish, by the way.
I know some people find him over the top and annoying, but I’m actually a fan of Mark Cuban’s. He’s a great American success story, and the fact that he’s Jewish is cool too. Stray fact, I remember reading somewhere online that he has a cat named Meshugunah. Tony Kornheiser has a good sense of humor too. I haven’t caught PTI in a while, but he wasn’t bad doing MNF.