Sports Biz: Stephen A. Smith back at ESPN UPDATE: becomes ESPN highest-paid sportscaster

exiledking

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Double negative.:D

Actually, there was a movement.

And he better get in front of an interviewer quick fast.

His very blackness ( or lack thereof ) is in question.

Shaun King, a black American favorite just a second ago, is watching his legacy go up in flames as we speak.

Kaep needs to step up or his will go the same route on steriods.
I'll say it in North Carolina

There won't never no movement
 

ansatsusha_gouki

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I'm torn.

I see Nessa doing it

but unfortunately at THIS particular time it seems they are using the narrative that Kap only let his "woman" talk for him.

Reid would DESTROY Stephen A.

But It would not be a good look.

Cause the next day?

SAS gonna talk for 2 hours uninterrupted saying all the stuff he wouldnt say to Reid face.

Everyone has made up their minds already

So in a way Kap is right not to talk.

Cause he spent over a year doing back to back to back charity acts...

With his OWN money

Media crickets.

Proving his point that talking sh*t is worth way more than actual action.

And honestly?

What is left to talk about?

Lets say Jay Z right... whats the next step?

Why Kap gotta say what that is?

When will WE step up and take the next step and carry the torch?

Kap pretty much did this solo.

So what WE doing?

I can say this much selling t shirts at the super bowl ain't it.


Coon Smith always do that bullshit. Him and that fake white liberal..
 

ballscout1

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Some of y'all real simple with the dislike of Smith and you entitled but all that coon this tom that shit is weak...

Dude is real with his and just because you don't agree don't make him a coon...it just shows how weak you are because you can't discredit the position so you attack the character


Stephen A. Smith Reveals Why He Avoided The Breakfast Club, Talks Antonio Brown, Melo + More

 

exiledking

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Some of y'all real simple with the dislike of Smith and you entitled but all that coon this tom that shit is weak...

Dude is real with his and just because you don't agree don't make him a coon...it just shows how weak you are because you can't discredit the position so you attack the character


Stephen A. Smith Reveals Why He Avoided The Breakfast Club, Talks Antonio Brown, Melo + More


You notice how Charlemagne was all "my brotba" this and that when he was actually there ?
 

ansatsusha_gouki

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You dumb fools call everyone a coon who doesn’t have a militant black stance on everything. As far as I’m concerned, SAS isn’t a coon at all. Is he a coon for holding niggas accountable for their actions, for instance no smoking weed, etc? FOH. If anyone is a coon it’s dumb sambos like you.

I’ve been here for a long time listening to you people insisting that SAS is a coon and I’ve been listening to him closely. All I hear from him is opinionated comments on a variety of topics... I also hear him speaking out on behalf of black people way more than dumb project scum like you. He’s advocated for black ownership, black hiring of coaches, front office positions, etc. he’s put on blast white shenanigans plenty of times. It’s such a shame that the race is littered with soooooo many dumb fucks like you who would dismiss an ally the minute that person is critical of anyone black. You niggas are pathetic as fuck. I fucking hate being associated with dumb niggas like you.

You uneducated project scum who were raised by a ghetto single mother have no idea what a coon is. Like I said before, your idea of a coon is anyone who is critical of any black person at all. So, if Martin Luther King was critical of ONE black person, 85% of you trash niggas would be insisting that King was a coon and everyone who disagrees would either get banned or chastised. You are a garbage nigga and you’ll always be one


Right,because he sure was quiet as a mouse when Michelle Beadle threw him indervthe bus publically during the Ray Rice incident.....He had nothing to say then but will throw a black player under the bus...

Not only,did his colleague threw him under the bus publically,the network made him apologizemaking him look like a fucking fool..


You're right he's not a coon....He's a super coon..
 

ballscout1

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It's easy to call somebody a coon when you don't understand the point they are making because you saw a meme or heard a clip.

There is the make-believe world some of you live in that is always sunny and shit is the way it should be and then there is the real world that is full of darkness and shit ain't fair or just.

And sometimes to cover your own ass you may have to do somethings that you shouldn't have to but in the real world, it might be the difference between you being a retail mofokr or worse a dead mofokr.

There has never been a time when all black folks got along or agreed with each other. There has never been this unity some of you dreamers think there was. But that explains why so many of y'all fall in line with the charlatans who are getting rich off our misery could really give less than a fuck about anything other than their bank account and style of living

Like Snoop said he is in an industry that allows him to be blunted but if you an athlete and that will fuck up your chance at generational wealth you a stupid mofokr to think you showing them you a man.....Pride will sometimes have you fucked up especially when you trying to prove to others how proud you are.

Yeah you should be able to dress any way you want, talk any way you want do you on your own time but that ain't the reality of this world.

Many can't see the forest for the trees and are too sensitive to realize that more than two things can be right at the same time.

The pathetic thing is that when you making decisions based on misinformation but will still march and stomp even when you find out the truth
 

ansatsusha_gouki

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What the fuck? Like I said, you’ll take one incident and call someone a coon. How was he a coon for the Rice incident? At first he said what most real men already know... that she probably did or said something that set him off. Then when his employer told him to apologize he did what everyone would do which is to apologize to save your seven figure job. That makes him a coon? Lmao!!! Stupid project nigga

You have every right to defend that coon..I'm not going to stop you..:dunno:
 
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ansatsusha_gouki

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It's easy to call somebody a coon when you don't understand the point they are making because you saw a meme or heard a clip.

There is the make-believe world some of you live in that is always sunny and shit is the way it should be and then there is the real world that is full of darkness and shit ain't fair or just.

And sometimes to cover your own ass you may have to do somethings that you shouldn't have to but in the real world, it might be the difference between you being a retail mofokr or worse a dead mofokr.

There has never been a time when all black folks got along or agreed with each other. There has never been this unity some of you dreamers think there was. But that explains why so many of y'all fall in line with the charlatans who are getting rich off our misery could really give less than a fuck about anything other than their bank account and style of living

Like Snoop said he is in an industry that allows him to be blunted but if you an athlete and that will fuck up your chance at generational wealth you a stupid mofokr to think you showing them you a man.....Pride will sometimes have you fucked up especially when you trying to prove to others how proud you are.

Yeah you should be able to dress any way you want, talk any way you want do you on your own time but that ain't the reality of this world.

Many can't see the forest for the trees and are too sensitive to realize that more than two things can be right at the same time.

The pathetic thing is that when you making decisions based on misinformation but will still march and stomp even when you find out the truth


There is a difference between having your own opinion and being a coon though..Coon Smith has a very long history of being so anti-black. His ass can go on TV shitting on black men everyday calling them names yet allow Michelle Beadle throw him under publically, because she misconstrued what he said during the Ray Rice incident. ESPN made him look like a child when he had to apologize before the show started...

This is the same guy that said NBA players who wore hoodies on the bench made white people uncomfortable....really..:smh:


This is the same dude that will go the extra mile shitting on black athletes for their fuckery yet rarely say a fucking word about Conor McGregor's fuckery...the list goes on.

Don't let me start about his bullshit about Kap..

The only two things Coon Smith cares about are his money and kissing Disney's ass so he can keep his job at ESPN..
 

ballscout1

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There is a difference between having your own opinion and being a coon though..Coon Smith has a very long history of being so anti-black. His ass can go on TV shitting on black men everyday calling them names yet allow Michelle Beadle throw him under publically, because she misconstrued what he said during the Ray Rice incident. ESPN made him look like a child when he had to apologize before the show started...

This is the same guy that said NBA players who wore hoodies on the bench made white people uncomfortable....really..:smh:


This is the same dude that will go the extra mile shitting on black athletes for their fuckery yet rarely say a fucking word about Conor McGregor's fuckery...the list goes on.

Don't let me start about his bullshit about Kap..

The only two things Coon Smith cares about are his money and kissing Disney's ass so he can keep his job at ESPN..


Almost sounds like Watcher talking to me in 2016 because I seldom say anything about republicans running. Its simple they not getting my vote so I hold Democrats to a higher standard.

Him going after Beadle publicly would serve no purpose.

And telling athletes or having the opinion they doing shit that jeopardizes their livelihood.

There tends to be an issue with any black man who says anything critical publicly. We heard it about Obama during his fathers day speech and we heard it about Cosby during his pull up your pants speech.

Now I have heard him be critical of white athletes but your right he is more vested in dumb shit done by black athletes

Again I don't think that makes him a coon even if I disagree with some shit..
 

ansatsusha_gouki

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Almost sounds like Watcher talking to me in 2016 because I seldom say anything about republicans running. Its simple they not getting my vote so I hold Democrats to a higher standard.

Him going after Beadle publicly would serve no purpose.

And telling athletes or having the opinion they doing shit that jeopardizes their livelihood.

There tends to be an issue with any black man who says anything critical publicly. We heard it about Obama during his fathers day speech and we heard it about Cosby during his pull up your pants speech.

Now I have heard him be critical of white athletes but your right he is more vested in dumb shit done by black athletes

Again I don't think that makes him a coon even if I disagree with some shit..

Again,you can have a different opinion with being a coon....There's some things I disagree with Shannon Sharpe but he doesnt act coonish either.

Telling black men that wearing hoodies makes white people uncomfortable makes you a coon..I will stand by that..

And,I never said Coon Smith should have publicly gone after Michelle Beadle but you can't constantly tell black folks you dont give a dayum what we think yet look like a fucking fool when one of your white colleagues calls you out publicly on Twitter and you had to apologize before the show begins...

Never in my life I've seen a grown man humiliate himself like that on TV after being called out like that publicly....

:smh::lol2:
 

ballscout1

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Again,you can have a different opinion with being a coon....There's some things I disagree with Shannon Sharpe but he doesnt act coonish either.

Telling black men that wearing hoodies makes white people uncomfortable makes you a coon..I will stand by that..

And,I never said Coon Smith should have publicly gone after Michelle Beadle but you can't constantly tell black folks you dont give a dayum what we think yet look like a fucking fool when one of your white colleagues calls you out publicly on Twitter and you had to apologize before the show begins...

Never in my life I've seen a grown man humiliate himself like that on TV after being called out like that publicly....

:smh::lol2:



The breakfast club interview was good as was the one he had with Karen Hunter.He goes into how he came up and his learning disability and how he was treated and it explains some things.

I don't think he is a coon. In my definition and although I Love Shannon Sharpe to me his over the top behavior and the rown liquor and shit is more coonish to me. Because he sometimes is stereotypical

Does black men wearing hoodies make white people uncomfortable? If it's true and that could affect their earning power which affects their influence that is soonish. Truth can never be the definition of coon. And context matters.

When I was a kid and had a doctors appointment my mother made me wash my ass and damn near dress up to go...As a nurse, she told me that they take notes and will mention hygiene and shit and that affects how they treat you. It isn't right but it is a reality and now I always take note of how others show up when I am in the waiting room.

Again it ain't right but we are held to a different standard and there are things that will be used against use that shouldn't as it doesn't get used against the other side.
 

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The breakfast club interview was good as was the one he had with Karen Hunter.He goes into how he came up and his learning disability and how he was treated and it explains some things.

I don't think he is a coon. In my definition and although I Love Shannon Sharpe to me his over the top behavior and the rown liquor and shit is more coonish to me. Because he sometimes is stereotypical

Does black men wearing hoodies make white people uncomfortable? If it's true and that could affect their earning power which affects their influence that is soonish. Truth can never be the definition of coon. And context matters.

When I was a kid and had a doctors appointment my mother made me wash my ass and damn near dress up to go...As a nurse, she told me that they take notes and will mention hygiene and shit and that affects how they treat you. It isn't right but it is a reality and now I always take note of how others show up when I am in the waiting room.

Again it ain't right but we are held to a different standard and there are things that will be used against use that shouldn't as it doesn't get used against the other side.

I see cooning as playing under someone else's rules, so if you have to cut off your dreads for a job that's possibly cooning.

Do you think it's cooning if someone else has a system you need to follow to get ahead?

In terms of a corporate hustler Steven a Smith shows you how to survive under a system that wasn't meant for you but do you think it's right to have to follow another man's system?

Cooning isna very difficult word to use since it's a very broad term.
 

Mask

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Now I hope Kap go to Undisputed for the interview and watch SAS head explode.... Lol

But if he ever does an interview it should be with black media like LeBron's Uninterrupted....

Fuck FOX and ESPN...
many folks would like this...

Then some problem commenting that the company that hosting Lebron’s show is this or that
 

ballscout1

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I see cooning as playing under someone else's rules, so if you have to cut off your dreads for a job that's possibly cooning.

Do you think it's cooning if someone else has a system you need to follow to get ahead?


In terms of a corporate hustler Steven a Smith shows you how to survive under a system that wasn't meant for you but do you think it's right to have to follow another man's system?

Cooning isna very difficult word to use since it's a very broad term.

No, I don't see that as cooning. I work in an environment that has a dress code. Most people have certain hours they are supposed to work. If they tell you 7-3 but you think its coonimg so you show up at 9 LOL

The reality is everybody living in the country follows another man's system. And owning your own business doesn't exempt you from that

You are more of a coon if you won't have your own opinion because it might not be popular or black enough

I don't have to agree with you and won't have a problem if you know why you think a certain way..If you just following a trend and don't know why and your opinion was given to you then I have no use for you.

I have raised 5 kids and one grandchild who are all 20 and over and I have several more grandchildren who are still very young. They all know the reality of the world we live in and thing things that might add to there safety because they are black that non-black folks don't even have to worry about.

Non-black people don't have to tell their sons the dangers or riding 4 deep as an example

As I said there is the way it should be and the way it is
 

Mask

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The breakfast club interview was good as was the one he had with Karen Hunter.He goes into how he came up and his learning disability and how he was treated and it explains some things.

I don't think he is a coon. In my definition and although I Love Shannon Sharpe to me his over the top behavior and the rown liquor and shit is more coonish to me. Because he sometimes is stereotypical

Does black men wearing hoodies make white people uncomfortable? If it's true and that could affect their earning power which affects their influence that is soonish. Truth can never be the definition of coon. And context matters.

When I was a kid and had a doctors appointment my mother made me wash my ass and damn near dress up to go...As a nurse, she told me that they take notes and will mention hygiene and shit and that affects how they treat you. It isn't right but it is a reality and now I always take note of how others show up when I am in the waiting room.

Again it ain't right but we are held to a different standard and there are things that will be used against use that shouldn't as it doesn't get used against the other side.
Great insight
 

playahaitian

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Right,because he sure was quiet as a mouse when Michelle Beadle threw him indervthe bus publically during the Ray Rice incident.....He had nothing to say then but will throw a black player under the bus...

Not only,did his colleague threw him under the bus publically,the network made him apologizemaking him look like a fucking fool..


You're right he's not a coon....He's a super coon..

And that bullsh*t he did to Vilma, how he kept talking that black on black crime even AFTER intelligentsia like michael eric dyson corrected him on air, when threatened Durant live in air... i could go on and on

Yet and still (as he likes to say) i think he REALLY believes he is helping and he does try. But his execution...
 

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It's easy to call somebody a coon when you don't understand the point they are making because you saw a meme or heard a clip.

There is the make-believe world some of you live in that is always sunny and shit is the way it should be and then there is the real world that is full of darkness and shit ain't fair or just.

And sometimes to cover your own ass you may have to do somethings that you shouldn't have to but in the real world, it might be the difference between you being a retail mofokr or worse a dead mofokr.

There has never been a time when all black folks got along or agreed with each other. There has never been this unity some of you dreamers think there was. But that explains why so many of y'all fall in line with the charlatans who are getting rich off our misery could really give less than a fuck about anything other than their bank account and style of living

Like Snoop said he is in an industry that allows him to be blunted but if you an athlete and that will fuck up your chance at generational wealth you a stupid mofokr to think you showing them you a man.....Pride will sometimes have you fucked up especially when you trying to prove to others how proud you are.

Yeah you should be able to dress any way you want, talk any way you want do you on your own time but that ain't the reality of this world.

Many can't see the forest for the trees and are too sensitive to realize that more than two things can be right at the same time.

The pathetic thing is that when you making decisions based on misinformation but will still march and stomp even when you find out the truth

OG Wisdom. Props
 

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The breakfast club interview was good as was the one he had with Karen Hunter.He goes into how he came up and his learning disability and how he was treated and it explains some things.

I don't think he is a coon. In my definition and although I Love Shannon Sharpe to me his over the top behavior and the rown liquor and shit is more coonish to me. Because he sometimes is stereotypical

Does black men wearing hoodies make white people uncomfortable? If it's true and that could affect their earning power which affects their influence that is soonish. Truth can never be the definition of coon. And context matters.

When I was a kid and had a doctors appointment my mother made me wash my ass and damn near dress up to go...As a nurse, she told me that they take notes and will mention hygiene and shit and that affects how they treat you. It isn't right but it is a reality and now I always take note of how others show up when I am in the waiting room.

Again it ain't right but we are held to a different standard and there are things that will be used against use that shouldn't as it doesn't get used against the other side.
I disagree Shannon is clearly not being serious and is joking Stephen A means it when he has certain opinions he expresses and is dead serious.
 

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I'll take getting roasted if I can get this:

https://nypost.com/2019/10/22/stephen-a-smith-leaving-espn-radio-as-part-of-huge-upcoming-contract/

Stephen A. Smith will leave his ESPN Radio show next year as part of a new contract that is being negotiated, The Post has learned.

Smith and ESPN are in the final stages of a five-year extension, which The Big Lead first reported.

In April, The Post reported that Smith and ESPN had begun negotiations that could yield a salary of $10 million a year.

Though the exact figures for the new deal are not yet known, Smith is surely going to end up in at least the $40 million-to-$50 million total neighborhood. He is set to sign a year early, which means he didn’t have to test the market to get ESPN to find the price he found to be correct.

Smith will continue with “First Take” while adding more appointment viewing opportunities on “SportsCenter.”

ESPN already announced that Smith will host his own edition of the program at 7 p.m. Wednesdays before NBA games.

Sources say ESPN is trying to figure out a way to utilize Smith on its relatively new over-the-top subscription platform, ESPN+.

Though he still has time remaining on his current contract, the new deal will guarantee he stays with ESPN into 2025, when he still will only be 58.
 

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Report: Stephen A. Smith to Make Almost $8 Million Per Year With New ESPN Deal
JENNA WESTNOV 7, 2019

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Stephen A. Smith will reportedly earn nearly $8 million per year as part of a new five-year contract with ESPN, according to the New York Post's Andrew Marchand.
The reported deal will make Smith ESPN's highest-paid sportscaster, passing Mike Greenberg's $6.5 million annual salary. Smith, 52, has a year left on his current contract. As part of the alleged new deal, the animated host will leave his ESPN Radio show next year.
Marchand reported earlier this year that Smith could see a raise "in the $8 million-to-$10 million range."
According to Marchand, Smith will continue hosting First Take while adding more appointment viewing opportunities on SportsCenter. ESPN already announced that Smith will host his own edition of the program at 7 p.m. on Wednesdays before NBA games. The network is also reportedly interested in finding a way to utilize Smith on its subscription platform, ESPN+.
Smith joined ESPN in 2005, working as a weekday radio host while writing for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
 

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STEPHEN A. SMITH REPORTEDLY SECURES $8 MILLION SALARY IN ESPN DEAL
by Cedric 'BIG CED' Thornton
November 13, 2019

Stephen A. Smith circa 2017 (Wikimedia Commons)
According to The New York Post, sports commentator, Stephen A. Smith. has re-upped his contract to the tune of almost $8 million per year.

Smith and ESPN have agreed on a five-year deal worth nearly $8 million per year, which sets him up to become ESPN’s highest-paid on-air personality. This contract will surpass ESPN’s Get Up! host Mike Greenberg, who earns $6.5 million a year.
Smith, along with Max Kellerman and Molly Qerim, is a featured commentator on ESPN’s First Take weekdays from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET, discussing and debating the sports topics of the day. He joined First Take permanently back in 2012. Smith appears on ESPN every day as a commentator on First Take and makes frequent appearances on SportsCenter where he is already hosting the show on Wednesdays, leading into NBA games.
The network is also reportedly trying to fit him in their ESPN+ subscription service while alleviating his duties on his ESPN Radio show next year.
The Omega Psi Phi member attended the Fashion Institute of Technology for one year, then he received a basketball scholarship to attend Winston-Salem State University, a historically black university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Smith began his career as a journalist in print media. He worked at Winston-Salem Journal, the Greensboro News and Record, New York Daily News, and The Philadelphia Inquirer before embarking to the radio and cable airwaves.

According to the ESPN site, “in September 2014, Smith began hosting the daily The Stephen A. Smith Show on SiriusXM’s Mad Dog Sports Radio. In January 2017, The Stephen A. Smith Show moved to ESPN’s SiriusXM channel and simulcast on ESPN’s owned and operated stations in New York (98.7FM) and Los Angeles (710AM), airing 1-3 p.m. In January 2018, the program expanded to the national ESPN Radio network and is available across ESPN Radio stations throughout the country. In August 2018, The Stephen A. Smith Show joined the ESPNEWS weekday ESPN Radio simulcast lineup. Smith also hosts several SportsCenter specials on ESPN throughout the year (since 2018).”

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STEPHEN A. SMITH REPORTEDLY SECURES $8 MILLION SALARY IN ESPN DEAL
by Cedric 'BIG CED' Thornton
November 13, 2019

Stephen A. Smith circa 2017 (Wikimedia Commons)
According to The New York Post, sports commentator, Stephen A. Smith. has re-upped his contract to the tune of almost $8 million per year.

Smith and ESPN have agreed on a five-year deal worth nearly $8 million per year, which sets him up to become ESPN’s highest-paid on-air personality. This contract will surpass ESPN’s Get Up! host Mike Greenberg, who earns $6.5 million a year.
Smith, along with Max Kellerman and Molly Qerim, is a featured commentator on ESPN’s First Take weekdays from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET, discussing and debating the sports topics of the day. He joined First Take permanently back in 2012. Smith appears on ESPN every day as a commentator on First Take and makes frequent appearances on SportsCenter where he is already hosting the show on Wednesdays, leading into NBA games.
The network is also reportedly trying to fit him in their ESPN+ subscription service while alleviating his duties on his ESPN Radio show next year.
The Omega Psi Phi member attended the Fashion Institute of Technology for one year, then he received a basketball scholarship to attend Winston-Salem State University, a historically black university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Smith began his career as a journalist in print media. He worked at Winston-Salem Journal, the Greensboro News and Record, New York Daily News, and The Philadelphia Inquirer before embarking to the radio and cable airwaves.

According to the ESPN site, “in September 2014, Smith began hosting the daily The Stephen A. Smith Show on SiriusXM’s Mad Dog Sports Radio. In January 2017, The Stephen A. Smith Show moved to ESPN’s SiriusXM channel and simulcast on ESPN’s owned and operated stations in New York (98.7FM) and Los Angeles (710AM), airing 1-3 p.m. In January 2018, the program expanded to the national ESPN Radio network and is available across ESPN Radio stations throughout the country. In August 2018, The Stephen A. Smith Show joined the ESPNEWS weekday ESPN Radio simulcast lineup. Smith also hosts several SportsCenter specials on ESPN throughout the year (since 2018).”

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