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Is ESPN in play for the looming WWE media rights deal?
Is ESPN a possible landing spot for WWE? The company's new media rights deal looms, and Andrew Marchand believes ESPN could be in play.
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Is ESPN in play for the looming WWE media rights deal?
ESPNWWEBy Chris Novak on 04/08/2023
Five years ago, WWE signed a landmark and lucrative television deal. The preeminent wrestling promotion inked deals worth $1 billion with both NBC Universal and Fox to air Monday Night Raw and Friday Night Smackdown, respectively.
After 2024, those deals are set to expire. The negotiating period for WWE and its newest media rights deal looms ahead. With several suitors around, it might be worth wondering who’s a serious contender or not to land them. This brings us to the Worldwide Leader, ESPN.
The four-letter network and WWE have had an interesting dynamic over the last decade. ESPN has promoted and published many works for WWE on ESPN.com and several of its television programs. Before WrestleMania 39, WWE and ESPN teamed together to use First Take to announce the match cards for both nights of the mega-event. That’s to say nothing of what the star of First Take thinks of WWE and what he wants his involvement to be.
Additionally, WWE just sold to Endeavor Media. Endeavor is no stranger to ESPN. The network has offered significant features to UFC, which Endeavor also owns. They regularly broadcast Fight Night events on ESPN+, among a variety of podcasts, promotions, and shows.
So, you wonder, is ESPN a potential player for WWE then? New York Post sports media reporter Andrew Marchand discussed the possibility that the network could be a home for the top wrestling company in America. Marchand spoke about it on the latest episode of The Marchand and Ourand Sports Media Podcast.
“I do think this puts ESPN and Disney even more in play,” Marchand said regarding whether the Endeavor deal would lead to the company landing on ESPN. He noted that he doesn’t view WWE as being a “problem” for ESPN or Disney, considering the UFC integration.
“And I just think, the relationships that are there, I think I could see that potentially WWE ending up – at least in some form, probably in multiple partners like they have now, but in some form on ESPN,” he said.
WWE’s deal with Endeavor doesn’t necessarily let them be beholden to just one media company or conglomerate. Comcast was a potential buyer for the company as they and WWE have had a three-decades-long relationship. But since they moved to Endeavor, the company has a real pick of the litter. It’s not the “wholesome family” operation anymore, obviously, so it’s fascinating to think about them potentially landing in a few places. Including ESPN, which would be the network’s first real foray into wrestling since the AWA days.
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Is ESPN in play for the looming WWE media rights deal?
Is ESPN a possible landing spot for WWE? The company's new media rights deal looms, and Andrew Marchand believes ESPN could be in play.
Is ESPN in play for the looming WWE media rights deal?
ESPNWWEBy Chris Novak on 04/08/2023
Five years ago, WWE signed a landmark and lucrative television deal. The preeminent wrestling promotion inked deals worth $1 billion with both NBC Universal and Fox to air Monday Night Raw and Friday Night Smackdown, respectively.
After 2024, those deals are set to expire. The negotiating period for WWE and its newest media rights deal looms ahead. With several suitors around, it might be worth wondering who’s a serious contender or not to land them. This brings us to the Worldwide Leader, ESPN.
The four-letter network and WWE have had an interesting dynamic over the last decade. ESPN has promoted and published many works for WWE on ESPN.com and several of its television programs. Before WrestleMania 39, WWE and ESPN teamed together to use First Take to announce the match cards for both nights of the mega-event. That’s to say nothing of what the star of First Take thinks of WWE and what he wants his involvement to be.
Additionally, WWE just sold to Endeavor Media. Endeavor is no stranger to ESPN. The network has offered significant features to UFC, which Endeavor also owns. They regularly broadcast Fight Night events on ESPN+, among a variety of podcasts, promotions, and shows.
So, you wonder, is ESPN a potential player for WWE then? New York Post sports media reporter Andrew Marchand discussed the possibility that the network could be a home for the top wrestling company in America. Marchand spoke about it on the latest episode of The Marchand and Ourand Sports Media Podcast.
“I do think this puts ESPN and Disney even more in play,” Marchand said regarding whether the Endeavor deal would lead to the company landing on ESPN. He noted that he doesn’t view WWE as being a “problem” for ESPN or Disney, considering the UFC integration.
“And I just think, the relationships that are there, I think I could see that potentially WWE ending up – at least in some form, probably in multiple partners like they have now, but in some form on ESPN,” he said.
WWE’s deal with Endeavor doesn’t necessarily let them be beholden to just one media company or conglomerate. Comcast was a potential buyer for the company as they and WWE have had a three-decades-long relationship. But since they moved to Endeavor, the company has a real pick of the litter. It’s not the “wholesome family” operation anymore, obviously, so it’s fascinating to think about them potentially landing in a few places. Including ESPN, which would be the network’s first real foray into wrestling since the AWA days.
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ESPN's Mike Greenberg rips political discourse in US: 'It descends into nastiness'
ESPN personality Mike Greenberg ripped the political discourse in the United States and said sports debates are usually ascending conversations and not as heated.
ESPN's Mike Greenberg rips political discourse in US: 'It descends into nastiness'
Greenberg used his new book as an example
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ESPN personality Mike Greenberg launched into a rant Monday about the differences between debating sports and debating politics and blasted the discourse around the latter.
Greenberg said on his radio show that political debate turns toxic as people always go for the jugular instead of having a nuanced conversation.
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ESPN host Mike Greenberg before Eastern Conference Finals game between the Heat and the Boston Celtics at FTX Arena in Miami, Florida, on May 17, 2022. (Jasen Vinlove-USA Today Sports)
"The best thing about sports conversation is that it ascends into debate. And I use that word advisedly. It doesn’t descend," the radio host said, via Awful Announcing. "Our political discourse in this country in this day and age stinks. It’s awful. It descends into the lowest common denominator all the time. It descends into nastiness. It descends into people calling each other names and separating themselves and drawing themselves further apart rather than having an actual intellectual conversation."
Greenberg co-authored a book called "Got Your Number," which ranks the best athletes of all time by jersey number. He used that as an example in his take.
ESPN PERSONALITY MIKE GREENBERG RIPS FRED COUPLES FOR HIS MASTERS ATTIRE DURING FINAL ROUND
Tom Brady of the New England Patriots greets Eli Manning of the New York Giants after a preseason game at Gillette Stadium on Aug. 29, 2019, in Foxborough, Massachusetts. (Adam Glanzman/Getty Images)
He added the sports debate "ascends" the quality of the conversation – though, if you call Eli Manning a Hall of Famer for his two Super Bowl wins over Tom Brady and the New England Patriots everybody loses their minds.
"Sports debate brings us together because someone might feel we got (Roberto) Clemente right, and someone might have thought we were wrong and it should’ve been Deion (Sanders)," Greenberg said, talking about the greatest athletes to wear the No. 21.
Mike Greenberg speaks on stage during Radio Hall Of Fame 2018 Induction Ceremony on Nov. 15, 2018, in New York City. (Michael Kovac/Getty Images for Radio Hall of Fame)
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"And someone else might have thought it was Tim Duncan. But none of us thought that the other person was a bad human being for thinking it. So, the debate ascends, not descends the quality of the conversation."
"Our political discourse in this country in this day and age stinks. It’s awful. It descends into the lowest common denominator all the time. It descends into nastiness. It descends into people calling each other names and separating themselves and drawing themselves further apart rather than having an actual intellectual conversation."ESPN's Mike Greenberg rips political discourse in US: 'It descends into nastiness'
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ESPN's Mike Greenberg rips political discourse in US: 'It descends into nastiness'
Greenberg used his new book as an example
By Ryan Gaydos | Fox News
Fox News Flash top sports headlines for April 12
Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com.
ESPN personality Mike Greenberg launched into a rant Monday about the differences between debating sports and debating politics and blasted the discourse around the latter.
Greenberg said on his radio show that political debate turns toxic as people always go for the jugular instead of having a nuanced conversation.
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ESPN host Mike Greenberg before Eastern Conference Finals game between the Heat and the Boston Celtics at FTX Arena in Miami, Florida, on May 17, 2022. (Jasen Vinlove-USA Today Sports)
"The best thing about sports conversation is that it ascends into debate. And I use that word advisedly. It doesn’t descend," the radio host said, via Awful Announcing. "Our political discourse in this country in this day and age stinks. It’s awful. It descends into the lowest common denominator all the time. It descends into nastiness. It descends into people calling each other names and separating themselves and drawing themselves further apart rather than having an actual intellectual conversation."
Greenberg co-authored a book called "Got Your Number," which ranks the best athletes of all time by jersey number. He used that as an example in his take.
ESPN PERSONALITY MIKE GREENBERG RIPS FRED COUPLES FOR HIS MASTERS ATTIRE DURING FINAL ROUND
Tom Brady of the New England Patriots greets Eli Manning of the New York Giants after a preseason game at Gillette Stadium on Aug. 29, 2019, in Foxborough, Massachusetts. (Adam Glanzman/Getty Images)
He added the sports debate "ascends" the quality of the conversation – though, if you call Eli Manning a Hall of Famer for his two Super Bowl wins over Tom Brady and the New England Patriots everybody loses their minds.
"Sports debate brings us together because someone might feel we got (Roberto) Clemente right, and someone might have thought we were wrong and it should’ve been Deion (Sanders)," Greenberg said, talking about the greatest athletes to wear the No. 21.
Mike Greenberg speaks on stage during Radio Hall Of Fame 2018 Induction Ceremony on Nov. 15, 2018, in New York City. (Michael Kovac/Getty Images for Radio Hall of Fame)
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"And someone else might have thought it was Tim Duncan. But none of us thought that the other person was a bad human being for thinking it. So, the debate ascends, not descends the quality of the conversation."
I’d love to hear him point to the day and age when conversations around rights and resources were friendlier than low-stakes debates over which player is better.
This is the perspective of a rich man who is comfortable with his status quo.
Marcus Spears signs lucrative new ESPN contract amid network’s looming layoffs
Marcus Spears, 40, has made a huge impact on ESPN, and the NFL analyst has re-signed with the network.
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Marcus Spears signs lucrative new ESPN contract amid network’s looming layoffs
ByAndrew Marchand
April 14, 2023 6:47pm
In the coming weeks and months, ESPN is expected to have massive layoffs that will impact all areas of the company, including on-air personalities, but it is not stopping the network from investing in those it views as vital.
In that vein, ESPN has re-signed NFL analyst Marcus Spears to a multi-million dollar four-year deal, according to sources.
Spears, 40, has made a huge impact on ESPN.
He’s featured prominently on “NFL Live,” “First Take,” “Get Up” and he has a podcast with Kendrick Perkins.
He is expected to continue in his roles with the possibility for expansion over the course of the contract.
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This leaves Mina Kimes as an unsigned ESPN NFL TV analyst, whom the network hopes to extend.
Marcus Spears is signing a new contract to remain with ESPN.Getty Images
Marcus Spears (l.) has emerged as a rising star at ESPN.Getty ImagesShe teams with Spears, Dan Orlovsky, Ryan Clark and Keyshawn Johnson as the regular analyst, alongside host Laura Rutledge on “NFL Live.”
In February, Disney’s CEO Bob Iger announced the company, which owns ESPN, would layoff 7,000 people.
Though other divisions already have begun shedding employees, ESPN is expected to start in the next few weeks.
Indy's Charly Arnolt joins OutKick: 'Cancel culture doesn’t exist here. I speak freely'
"People are too scared to speak up for fear of being called politically incorrect," Arnolt told IndyStar on her decision to leave ESPN for OutKick.
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Indy's Charly Arnolt joins OutKick: 'Cancel culture doesn’t exist here. I speak freely'
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Hours after digital media company OutKick and its founder Clay Travis announced they had lured Indy native Charly Arnolt away from ESPN to join their conservative-leaning organization that covers sports, news and politics, Arnolt told IndyStar she is looking forward to finally being able to speak freely.
"It feels like I was a little bit stifled in the past," said Arnolt, 35, who spent the past five years at ESPN and the last two years under a full-time contract. "People are too scared to speak up for the fear of being called politically incorrect. The idea of cancel culture, it doesn’t exist here. I speak freely.
"I have a lot of opinions that I haven’t been able to express, and I can’t wait to get started."
Arnolt, a former Fox59 sports anchor, will be co-hosting a new show currently in development, which will be announced before the football season.
Travis tweeted Monday that Arnolt "will be one of the hosts of our new Outkick morning show debuting this summer. She’s leaving @espn so she can actually say what she thinks. Awesome addition." Travis, who founded OutKick in 2011 then sold it to Fox Corporation in 2021, has been an outspoken critic of ESPN.
Through a spokesperson Monday, ESPN declined comment on Arnolt leaving the company.
Arnolt, a North Central High graduate, told IndyStar that throughout her career she has struggled covering "ultra important issues as they affect not just sports but our society and culture in general."
"There are a lot of issues people refuse to remain unbiased about because of the network they're on," she said.
When asked what her political leanings were, Arnolt said, "I'm not going to put a stamp on my political beliefs. I think a lot of what OutKick does best is they approach everything from a common sense standpoint and that is where I stand.
"There are a lot of issues if you use a little common sense, you can find the answer the right way."
Arnolt's morning show on OutKick will cover not only sports but pop culture and politics. Arnolt will remain in New York City, where she has lived for the past six years.
Beyond her show, Arnolt will be featured across OutKick platforms "to discuss trending topics and to provide her authentic takes on the most pressing stories in sports," the company said. She also will likely appear as a guest host on Fox News programming "here and there," she said.
While with ESPN, Arnolt hosted "First Take," "SportsCenter" and made regular appearances on ESPN+’s weekday morning show, "SportsNation."She also launched an ESPN podcast called "First Take, Her Take." Before joining ESPN full time, Arnolt was with WWE as Charly Caruso. In addition to OutKick, Arnolt will remain as a host for UFC.
Skip Bayless regrets getting ridiculed by 'slippery egomaniac' Mark Cuban on First Take
Skip Bayless claims he never lost a debate on live TV, but regrets the one time it appeared like he lost a debate to Mark Cuban.
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Skip Bayless regrets getting ridiculed by ‘slippery egomaniac’ Mark Cuban on First Take
FOXNBAPODCASTSBy Brandon Contes on 04/18/2023
Skip Bayless claims he never lost a debate on live TV, but regrets the one time it appeared like he lost a debate to Mark Cuban on First Take.
On the latest episode of The Skip Bayless Show podcast, the Undisputed host reflected on the one regret of his TV career. “It concerns the one day I faced Mark Cuban on live TV, a day I have tried again and again to rectify,” Bayless said.
That regretful show segment occurred nearly 11 years ago, when First Take’s producers booked Cuban as a guest the day after LeBron James and the Miami Heat won the 2012 NBA Finals.
Bayless was still in his first year as the show’s lead personality, after it transitioned away from the Cold Pizza format, and didn’t yet have executive producer status or final say on guests.
According to Bayless, Cuban would have been a great guest any other day, but not the day after LeBron’s first championship. Bayless told his First Take co-host, Stephen A. Smith, that he didn’t want Cuban to go off on any Dallas tangents during the show. One year earlier, the Mavericks beat LeBron’s Miami Heat in the NBA Finals, giving Cuban potential fodder to go off on a Dallas tangent during First Take.
“I don’t remember exactly how the conversation with Cuban unfolded. I only remember that I tried to say as little as possible. I tried to not engage with Mark Cuban,” Bayless said, recalling that Cuban eventually touted his Mavericks’ ability to defend LeBron during the 2011 NBA Finals. “I didn’t want to argue too hard with Cuban because that was last year…crushing LeBron on that day? On his first ring day? Just seemed to me, so unfair and so out of bounds and so off point.”
“I was told after the show by our producers, that the internet was saying ‘Mark Cuban kicked my ass, that Mark Cuban made me look foolish.’ The internet wants to see me lose, wants to see me exposed as a know-nothing fraud,” Bayless claimed. “But the truth was, the foolishness was coming from Mark Cuban’s mouth. I just wasn’t fighting back the way I have at every other time in my career, except that one.”
Cuban did not just derail First Take by touting his Mavericks beating LeBron during the 2011 NBA Finals, he mocked Bayless and the sports debate show format. But to his credit, Bayless desperately wants to come back for more in hopes of rectifying the more than decade-old segment that still haunts him.
Sports PASS/FAIL: Stephen A. Smith defends Clay Travis interview after alleged ESPN backlash
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Stephen A. Smith defends Clay Travis interview after alleged ESPN backlash
Stephen A. Smith sent a message to everybody who was upset that he had Clay Travis on his podcast.
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Stephen A. Smith defends Clay Travis interview after alleged ESPN backlash
ByRyan Glasspiegel
April 20, 2023 7:32pm
Stephen A. Smith sent a message to everybody who was upset that he had Clay Travis on his podcast.
Smith hosted the OutKick founder on his Audacy “Know Mercy” podcast earlier this week, and the two opinionists had a wide-ranging conversation that included their thoughts on cancel culture and whether or not Donald Trump would be the likeliest Republican candidate to defeat Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential election.
There was some backlash on social media and sports blogs to the idea that Smith, an ESPN talent, “platformed” Travis, who has been persistently critical of ESPN as a company and personally mocked a number of on-air talents who work there for skewing too “woke.”
“I watched the reaction to my conversation with Clay Travis, obviously a successor to Rush Limbaugh on his radio show. You’ve got a lot of people writing stories and alluding to problems because I sat down and had a conversation.”
After Smith hosted Travis, The Big Lead editor-in-chief Kyle Koster tweeted, “Small sample size but Stephen A. Smith’s latest choice for a podcast guest has not been a huge hit internally.”
Ben Koo, the owner and editor-in-chief of the sports media website Awful Announcing, quote-tweeted Koster.
“Stephen A has largely been paid and been playing by his own rules,” Koo wrote. “ESPN folks have long understood and accepted this. His interview yesterday with ESPN’s biggest antagonist has had a major impact on how he’s seen internally. ‘Bad teammate’ is the kindest of what I’ve heard.”
Smith was up in arms over the idea that people had an issue with his amplifying a guest whose political commentary is polarizing.
Stephen A. Smith called out everyone who had a problem with him hosting Clay Travis on his podcast.GC Images
Clay Travis founded OutKick and co-hosts the “Clay and Buck” radio program with Buck Sexton that replaced Rush Limbaugh.Getty Images
“These are the people who are a problem,” Smith continued. “I thoroughly enjoyed my conversation with Clay Travis. He has his opinions. I have mine. He expressed them cogently with clarity. You can agree or disagree. I have my opinions. That’s what makes the world goes round. That’s what ‘Know Mercy’ is about and that’s what the hell it’s gonna stay about.
“Let me be very, very clear: I talk to everybody. I don’t agree with a lot of people or a lot of things that people say. I don’t believe that’s a reason to hate them, any more than I want that to be a reason for them to hate me.
“Listen to what I have to say. If my points are valid, man up or woman up, and admit it. If it’s still wrong and you believe it in your heart, then say so! We move on! Because that’s what I’m gonna do.”
Travis directly mocked Koo for his tweet about the matter.
“Either name your ‘sources’ or quit whining,” Travis tweeted. “People loved the @stephenasmith and me podcast. That’s what has actually upset the woke, the conversation was so well received no one has even uttered a public word of negativity. So now we have to whisper about anonymous people whose feelings were hurt. So predictable.”
Charly Arnolt felt ‘stifled’ at ESPN, rips network’s Lia Thomas tribute
Arnolt went on “America’s Newsroom” on Fox News on Thursday and explained why she thinks there is a contradiction in her former employer’s stated policy of staying out of po…
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Charly Arnolt felt ‘stifled’ at ESPN, rips network’s Lia Thomas tribute
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April 20, 2023 3:01pm
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Charly Arnolt is speaking out about her former employer, ESPN.
Arnolt, who also previously worked in WWE as a backstage interviewer under the name Charly Caruso, announced earlier this week that she was leaving ESPN for OutKick.
Arnolt went on “America’s Newsroom” on Fox News on Thursday and explained why she thinks there is a contradiction in her former employer’s stated policy of staying out of politics.
Arnolt also applauded her former colleagues Sage Steele and Sam Ponder for opposing Lia Thomas and other transgender athletes competing in women’s sports.
“ESPN has been very adamant about keeping politics out of their programming, yet you just saw, late last month, they did a whole tribute, during Women’s Month, for Lia Thomas,” Arnolt said.
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“Therefore, it doesn’t exactly seem like they are keeping politics completely out of the mix. But, I have to commend these two women for standing up for these women who are unfortunately losing so much of the success that they worked so hard for.”
Thomas swam for three years at Penn as a male, then transitioned to female and set a number of records.
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After former Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines slammed a proposal from the Biden administration to bar blanket bans against transgender youth athletes, Ponder, the host of ESPN’s “Sunday NFL Countdown” tweeted, “This would take away so many opportunities for biological women and girls in sports. It is a shame that we are needing to fight for the integrity of Title IX in 2023 and the reason it was needed in the first place.”
Steele, a “SportsCenter” anchor, tweeted, “This is heartbreaking, maddening, and really difficult to watch. I keep thinking I’m going to wake up and be relieved that this was all just a ridiculous, comical, nonsensical dream….”
Charly Arnolt was a backstage interviewer at WWE before working at ESPN.Getty Images for MaximOn her Fox News appearance, Arnolt intimated that the Thomas situation should be a warning shot about what happens if transgender athletes compete against women in physical team sports.
“I think there’s a lot of women who are uncomfortable about standing up for women’s rights because they don’t want to be considered politically incorrect, because it’s really crazy where this world and this conversation has gone,” Arnolt said.
“It’s a very slippery slope, because when you look at, this is swimming, where we’ve seen a transgender permeate the women’s world, but there are so many sports that are far more aggressive than swimming, that are team sports. Think about soccer or basketball. [If] even an average male athlete enters that world, what’s gonna happen to women? It will become a very dangerous landscape.”
Charly Arnolt on a Fan Controlled Football broadcast.Getty ImagesAsked why she left ESPN, Arnolt said, “I’m a very opinionated person — I always have been. That’s something I love about myself and I just felt at ESPN that I was a little bit stifled. There was a lot of conversations and issues that have really just permeated the world of sports and society in general that I wasn’t able to speak up about.
“And it made me feel very uncomfortable, because I wasn’t true to myself. Then there’s a place like OutKick, where the idea of cancel culture doesn’t exist. You have someone like Clay Travis who really stands behind everyone who works at the company and says, ‘You can say whatever you want as long as you are convicted in what you’re saying and you really believe in it you have nothing to worry about.'”
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The first round of ESPN layoffs have begun and are expected to extend through Wednesday, The Post has learned.
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The ESPN layoffs have begun
The first round of ESPN layoffs have begun and are expected to extend through Wednesday, The Post has learned.
Marly Rivera's 'F***ing C***' Diss Happened In Front Of Aaron Judge, Video Shows
Ex-ESPN Reporter Marly Rivera 'F***ing C***' Diss Caught On Video ... Went Down In Front Of Aaron Judge
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The "f***ing c***" barb that ex-ESPN reporter Marly Rivera hurled at a female journalist earlier this month was captured on video ... and in the footage, obtained by TMZ Sports, you can see it all went down right in front of Aaron Judge.
The incident -- which resulted in ESPN firing Rivera from her role as a national baseball reporter earlier this week -- happened on April 18 at Yankee Stadium ... just before New York took on the Los Angeles Angels in the Bronx.
According to the New York Post, Rivera had set up an interview with Judge ... but grew frustrated when freelance reporter Ivón Gaete showed up at the same time looking to speak with the Yankees superstar as well.
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The video shows Rivera got so livid with Gaete -- who the Post reported had been at the stadium to cover Angels star Shohei Ohtani for Tokyo Broadcasting -- she began to raise her voice at the woman in Spanish ... as Judge signed autographs and posed for pics with fans just feet away.
At one point, Rivera rolled her eyes and called Gaete a "f***ing c***."
Gaete was clearly taken aback by the remark -- and asked a nearby camera person if they had caught it on video.
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The two reporters then lingered around Judge for several moments. When he finally left the area, it seemed Rivera wanted to apologize ... but it didn't appear Gaete was willing to accept it.
ESPN said on Wednesday it had parted ways with Rivera following the encounter. Rivera, meanwhile, told the Post she fully accepted responsibility for her actions.
"There were extenuating circumstances but that in no way is an excuse for my actions," Rivera said. "I am a professional with a sterling reputation across baseball and I do believe that I am being singled out by a group of individuals with whom I have a long history of professional disagreements."
Rivera has since deleted her social media pages.
ESPN fires MLB reporter Marly Rivera for calling fellow reporter ‘f–king c–t’
ESPN national baseball reporter Marly Rivera has been fired after an incident at Yankee Stadium in which she uttered the words, “f—king c–t” toward a fellow female reporter.
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We don't mess with that sit but it is relevent to the discussion
Awful Announcing Podcast: Bomani Jones talks ESPN layoffs, debating against Skip Bayless, Stephen A. Smith's potential political career, and more
'Game Theory' host Bomani Jones joined AA's Brandon Contes for the relaunch episode of the Awful Announcing Podcast.
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I couldn't see Stephen A Smith successfully entering into politics at a high level in his home state of New York.
I disagree with Bomani-- I don't think he would run. I don't think he really wants the smoke and that Christine Blasey Ford clip is just the tip of the iceburg of shit that would get him eaten alive in a Democratic primary. I bet a lot of shit he has said on camera to the Sean Hannitys and Bill O'Reillys would disqualify him.
The other career speculation is interesting. I never watched him fill in on Kimmel, I'm gonna finally get to that this week. He definitely has greater ambitions in the media world.
very very good points