Paige attended the University of Tennessee. He joined the Denver Post in 1981. After leaving UT, 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 and most winning 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).
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).
Paige 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 still wrote a column for the Sunday Post working out of New York City until December 4, 2005. As of May 2006, Paige remains on Cold Pizza.
His work has appeared in numerous sports magazines and he is also the author of seven sports books.
One of the most famous brouhahas involving Paige came in the summer of 2001. On July 1, a Paige column in the Post reported that an employee at Invesco -- which has the naming rights to the Denver sports facility Invesco Field at Mile High -- had confessed that he and some colleagues referred to the stadium as The Diaphragm for its shape. The company threatened Paige with a lawsuit. A few days later, the executive apparently confessed to the company about his comment, forcing a grudging admission (and withdrawal of the lawsuit threat) from Invesco, which said that the employee's view does not reflect those of the company.
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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