Woody Paige

About

Woodrow Wilson Paige Jr. (born June 27, 1946) is a sports columnist for The Gazette, author, and was a panelist on the ESPN talk show Around the Horn until the show ended in 2025. He was a columnist for The Denver Post for 35 years, and co-host of Cold Pizza and its spin-off show 1st and 10 until November 2006, when it was announced that Paige would return to the Post. Paige is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame committee and is a Baseball Hall of Fame voter.

Paige wrote for the Whitehaven Press in 1963 while still in high school. He later attended the University of Tennessee and joined Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity in 1964.

After graduating from UT he went on to write for the Knoxville Journal, The Commercial Appeal of Memphis, and the Rocky Mountain News of Denver. Paige was honored with an Accomplished Alumni award by University of Tennessee in 2012.

Paige joined The Denver Post in 1981. In 2001, he reported that an employee at Invesco, which had the naming rights to the Denver Broncos stadium, Invesco Field at Mile High, claimed that the nickname for the stadium inside the company was “The Diaphragm”, after…