Longtime sports columnist and ESPN Around the Horn panelist Woody Paige was inducted into the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame last night. Paige graduated from the University of Tennessee and wrote for the Knoxville Journal, The Commerical Appeal in Memphis and then the Rocky Mountain News in Denver. In 1981 he started at The Denver Post and stayed until 2016. He is still writing two columns per week for The Gazette.
In 2002, Paige became one of the original panelists on ESPN’s Around the Horn and he has appeared on the show almost 3,000 of the over 4,000 shows recorded. To date, he is the only panelist with more than 600 wins.
Paige was inducted along with four others, including longtime NFL player and Hall of Famer Tony Boselli who starred at Fairview High in Boulder. When the announcement was made back in October, Paige said, “They must have run out of qualified people after the first four honorable and most worthy inductees were chosen for the 2024 class of the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame.”
Paige has written nine books and estimates he has written about nearly 10,000 sporting events.
