ESPN insiders are spilling the tea about the “political divide” inside ESPN; claiming the network is desperate to move past its “liberal bias” label in wake of the drama centered around SC6, the short-lived SportsCenter show featuring Jemele Hill and Michael Smith. Per THR’s Marisa Guthrie, ESPN executive VP Norby Williamson actively celebrated when Hill quit the show, while VP of content Dave […]

Jemele Hill left the show earlier this year.   Michael Smith has been vocal about how he didn’t like the way ESPN treated Jemele Hill after she called Trump a white supremacist—and about how the network ruined their show SportsCenter.    On the podcast Origins, he revealed after Hill’s comments about Trump, ESPN didn’t allow them to engage […]

Jemele Hill, the ESPN “SportsCenter” anchor who made national headlines after making calling out Donald Trump as a racist, will leave the program and focus on assignments in other parts of the Walt Disney-owned company, Variety reports, citing people familiar with the situation. These sources characterized the move as one requested by Hill. Michael Smith, her […]

ESPN's Jemele Hill and Michael Smith were joined by the show's original cast members Dawnn Lewis, Sinbad, Darryl M. Bell and Glynn Turman.

Michael Smith, the Assistant Director of Marching and Athletic Bands at Ohio State University, caused quite a stir around the country when his band performed a tribute to…