RIP 'Around the Horn', Which Will Go Off the Air in May After 23 Years

It's 2007. You get home from school in a world which has yet to completely go to shit, toss your backpack into a corner like you'll never need it again and flip on the television to see Woody Paige, Jay Mariotti, Tim Cowlishaw and J.A. Adande adorning the day's Around the Horn panel. Paige's blackboard reads, "I thought I made a mistake, but I was mistaken." Life is good.

The only clips I've seen from ATH in recent years seem to indicate it has devolved into another forgettable vertical for ESPN to explore its affinity for left-wing politics, but this show at one time was one of the greats. It never caught prime Pardon the Interruption, but it was a worthy lead-in for many years. And just like that, it's gone.

It seems like remembering a time when ESPN aired actual television shows will soon be tantamount to reminiscing about the days of the VCR. Once PTI calls it quits, there won't be much left.

Around the Horn's departure also seems to be the end of ESPN having any national programming that featured journalists from across the country. I always loved The Sports Reporters on Sunday mornings for the same reason. You got to hear from guys who lived in all different places throughout the country and how their thoughts differed on the biggest national stories.

They took Baseball Tonight out back and shot it in the head. SportsCenter is barely a shell of what it used to be. Around the Horn is gone.

I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you've actually left them.