Real Talk: Would you a $10M / yr position if you had to publicly spread coon-ish views (Stephen S. Smith Approved)
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SAS is deeply insecure -moves like a weak man
similar to DJ Envy
Perfect psychological breakdown bars
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Crazy thing I still don't agree with the whole SAS is a coon, but whatever. What's interesting about your viewpoint, SAS has done all this...Go look at his record....I can provide plenty of receipts...
Judging someone by what they say vs by what they actually do is wrong...
You a coon but you got inducted into the oldest black athletic conference in the USA...The CIAA -
https://andscape.com/features/steph...rts-pioneer-with-ciaa-hall-of-fame-induction/
Stephen A. Smith recognized as sports pioneer with CIAA Hall of Fame induction
The First Take star credits coach Clarence ‘Big House’ Gaines with helping mold his career and life
By William C. Rhoden@RhodenRhoden8February 24, 2017
ESPN sportscaster Stephen A. Smith was inducted into the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) Hall of Fame on Friday. But Smith’s entry was not based on the number of points he scored as a member of the Winston-Salem State University Rams basketball team. He gained entry, along with six others, for representing the ultimate ideal of a student at a historically black college or university (HBCU), who often does the most with the least, and who comes out of nowhere to achieve unimagined heights.
One of the most recognizable faces in sports broadcasting, Smith was recruited to Winston-Salem State out of Hollis, Queens, New York, by Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame coach Clarence “Big House” Gaines.
Stephen Smith talks with Charlie Neal during the CIAA Hall of Fame presentation on February 24, 2017 at the Charlotte Convention Center in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Smith told a breakfast audience of nearly 300 that his career as a Ram was cut short by chronic tendonitis and a cracked kneecap he suffered shortly after arriving on campus.
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Smith corrected host Charlie Neal, who said Smith and Gaines became friends.
“I would never call Clarence ‘Big House’ Gaines a friend,” Smith said. “He was a father. He’s the closest thing to a father that I’ve had. We were very close. I looked up to him, I revered him, idolized him.”
Smith’s tell-it-like-it-is style began at Winston-Salem State when he was a reporter for the student newspaper, The News Argus. His first big splash at the newspaper came after he called for Gaines to step down.
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Increasingly concerned about Gaines’s health — Smith recalled that the legendary coach suffered small strokes during games — he recalled how he confronted Gaines in his office. “I told him, ‘Coach, I’m scared. I’m not going to let you drop dead on the sideline.’ ”
Smith told Gaines that if he didn’t retire he would write an article suggesting that Gaines should step down. Gaines cursed Smith and kicked him out of the office.
Yet, amid the subsequent firestorm, with some faculty members and even the school’s chancellor calling for Smith to be expelled from the school, Gaines defended Smith. “Coach Gaines said ‘Leave him alone,’ ” Smith recalled.
“According to what I was told, he told the chancellor and others, I’m not to be touched. I’m not to be bothered.”
Stephen Smith holds up a framed Hall of Fame jersey during the CIAA Hall of Fame presentation on February 24, 2017 at the Charlotte Convention Center in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Smith went on to write for the Winston-Salem Journal, the Greensboro News & Record, the New York Daily News and the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Smith would go on to have his own radio and television shows, most popularly on ESPN, where he co-hosts First Take.
“I truly believe in my heart that I’m the best,” Smith said. “You can put a panel of people next to me, I’m literally sitting there and I’m like, in my mind, ‘Would y’all hurry up so people can hear from who they really want to hear from?’ ”
Smith said the source of his confidence was the nurturing he received at Winston-Salem State from Gaines, an iconic basketball coach for whom he never really played.
“The relationship I had with him — I don’t know how to explain it,” Smith said. “He just saw something in me that I really didn’t see in myself.”
William C. Rhoden, the former award-winning sports columnist for The New York Times and author of Forty Million Dollar Slaves, is a writer-at-large for Andscape.
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