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 […]
Good grief, we’re still feeling reverberations from Monday’s announcement that Kevin Durant is signing with Golden State Warriors in a 2-year, $54.3 million deal. And of course, everyone has an opinion about the deal including ESPN’s Chris Broussard and Stephen A. Smith. You probably won’t be surprised to learn they don’t agree on what went […]