Random sports media thoughts:
- Michael Smith’s career arc was ended by his friendship with Jemele Hill. To his credit, I’m sure ESPN had given him his money and he had no financial other incentive to cut bait 100% from his homie. But, she became toxic by her own doing (and at that point had become hard to listen to) and by not cutting and bailing, he was tied to her.
- ESPN’s current lack of black representation is another sign of the void into sport media that BET should have established and cornered the market on back in the traditional media days.
- Mike “The Italian Stallion” Tirico is an MBA case study in how you often, not always, have to abandon, or never acknowledge to begin with, any hint of acknowledgement of your African roots if you desire to scale the ladder of WPP America.
- Who fucked up easy long term post NFL money worse, Warren Sapp, Michael Irvin, or Aqib Talib?