Shannon Sharpe leaves "Undisputed" after 7 years

[jjgold]

These shows great for uneducated men 18-50 or so blue collar types

 

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Good riddance to him. Hope he gets CTE and does the right thing

 

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These shows great for uneducated men 18-50 or so blue collar types

you mean most of BMR, guys like you

 

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So what's next for Shannon Sharpe?

drugs and alcohol

 

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These shows great for uneducated men 18-50 or so blue collar types

Great for fade material as well. For example, will tune into the ending of the Daily Wager on ESPN2 sometimes just to see what those HAMBURGERS are touting and avoid the same bet. If you ever see that Fortenbaugh guy lay points on anything AUTO FADE.

 

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Great for fade material as well. For example, will tune into the ending of the Daily Wager on ESPN2 sometimes just to see what those HAMBURGERS are touting and avoid the same bet. If you ever see that Fortenbaugh guy lay points on anything AUTO FADE.

you don’t win stop

 

[209life]

Richard Sherman has been hired to debate Skip Bayless on Undisputed.

 

[Tanko]

Richard Sherman has been hired to debate Skip Bayless on Undisputed.

Got to be honest. Not sad about this news. I never liked Skip.
He did add some excitement to the show but I think he acted like a dick too much.

It was probably part of the show to attract drama.

 

[stormtrooper8]

Got to be honest. Not sad about this news. I never liked Skip.
He did add some excitement to the show but I think he acted like a dick too much.

It was probably part of the show to attract drama.

Skip still there

Do you mean Shannon?

 

[Tanko]

Skip still there

Do you mean Shannon?

Now you made me sad ST.

 

[209life]

Now Rachel Nichols is added with Sherman & Bayless

Rachel Nichols has worked at Showtime and as a contributor for CNN since her 2021 departure from ESPN. (Jevone Moore/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Rachel Nichols will join FS1 as a panelist on "Undisputed," where she will take turns as a co-host verbally sparring with Skip Bayless, Sports Business Journal reports.
Nichols is the latest reported hire alongside former NFL cornerback Richard Sherman and rapper Lil Wayne to join the show as a panelist. They join "Undisputed" after the departure of full-time panelist Shannon Sharpe, who left the show in June.
Sharpe left the show after his relationship with Bayless deteriorated on air amid arguments that turned increasingly contentious. A show based on debating the topics of the day in sports devolved into the pair yelling personal attacks at each other.

Instead of a single co-host, the show will have a rotating cast of sparring partners for Bayless. The network is also considering hiring either Michael Irvin or Keyshawn Johnson, per the report.
Nichols worked for years as a reporter and host for ESPN and CNN/Turner Sports. She joined ESPN in 2004 as a reporter covering the NFL and NBA. She left ESPN in 2013 for CNN/Turner sports, where she worked as a contributor on the news network alongside duties for TNT's NBA coverage and Turner's NCAA tournament coverage.
She returned to ESPN in 2016 to host "The Jump," a weekday afternoon show covering the NBA. She was a lead voice on the network's NBA coverage before a New York Times report in 2021 revealed leaked audio of her comments suggesting that then-colleague Maria Taylor, who is Black, was promoted as part of a diversity effort.

“I wish Maria Taylor all the success in the world — she covers football, she covers basketball,” Nichols said in the leaked audio that was recorded in 2020. “If you need to give her more things to do because you are feeling pressure about your crappy longtime record on diversity — which, by the way, I know personally from the female side of it — like, go for it. Just find it somewhere else. You are not going to find it from me or taking my thing away.”

Nichols and ESPN reached a settlement after the fallout from the article that included her departure from the network. She has since worked as a host on Showtime and a contributor on CNN.

 

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Now Rachel Nichols is added with Sherman & Bayless

Rachel Nichols has worked at Showtime and as a contributor for CNN since her 2021 departure from ESPN. (Jevone Moore/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Rachel Nichols will join FS1 as a panelist on "Undisputed," where she will take turns as a co-host verbally sparring with Skip Bayless, Sports Business Journal reports.
Nichols is the latest reported hire alongside former NFL cornerback Richard Sherman and rapper Lil Wayne to join the show as a panelist. They join "Undisputed" after the departure of full-time panelist Shannon Sharpe, who left the show in June.
Sharpe left the show after his relationship with Bayless deteriorated on air amid arguments that turned increasingly contentious. A show based on debating the topics of the day in sports devolved into the pair yelling personal attacks at each other.

Instead of a single co-host, the show will have a rotating cast of sparring partners for Bayless. The network is also considering hiring either Michael Irvin or Keyshawn Johnson, per the report.
Nichols worked for years as a reporter and host for ESPN and CNN/Turner Sports. She joined ESPN in 2004 as a reporter covering the NFL and NBA. She left ESPN in 2013 for CNN/Turner sports, where she worked as a contributor on the news network alongside duties for TNT's NBA coverage and Turner's NCAA tournament coverage.
She returned to ESPN in 2016 to host "The Jump," a weekday afternoon show covering the NBA. She was a lead voice on the network's NBA coverage before a New York Times report in 2021 revealed leaked audio of her comments suggesting that then-colleague Maria Taylor, who is Black, was promoted as part of a diversity effort.

Nichols and ESPN reached a settlement after the fallout from the article that included her departure from the network. She has since worked as a host on Showtime and a contributor on CNN.

irrelevant

 

[209life]

Shannon joins ESPN First Take

Shannon Sharpe is leaving Skip Bayless' current show for Skip Bayless' old show, at least on a part-time basis.

The former host of Fox Sports' "Skip and Shannon: Undisputed" will join the rotation opposite Stephen A. Smith on ESPN's "First Take" during the upcoming football season, according to the New York Post. Sharpe will reportedly make regular appearances Mondays and Thursdays.

Smith, however, disputed the report on social media Thursday night, saying that while ESPN was still pursuing Sharpe, no deal had been signed between the two parties:

“It’ll be great to have him. Here’s the issue, we don’t. Sorry, Andrew Marchand of the New York Post. It's a bit premature. Shannon Sharpe has yet to sign on the dotted line to be a member of First Take. It has not happened yet. I'm still confident it will happen. I still believe it will happen. I think it needs to happen. And I have no doubt that I’m going to exhaust any means I have available to me to make it happen.”

Sharpe made his final appearance on "Undisputed" in June after making the decision to end his seven-year run at Fox. As the Post notes, returning to "First Take" would be something of a full-circle move for the Hall of Fame tight end, whose guest appearances opposite Bayless on "First Take" sold him as a permanent co-host for "Undisputed" when Bayless left for Fox.


Smith made no secret of his interest in landing Sharpe once rumors of the move started circulating, via Front Office Sports:

“I want Shannon Sharpe on First Take. And I aim to get him. We are definitely talking to Shannon Sharpe. The conversations are official. The reports have not been misnomers. Or misreports or anything like that,” he told his listeners.

“We are talking to him. I am hopeful, very hopeful, and very confident that ultimately we will be announcing sooner than later that he will be on ‘First Take.’”

Sharpe is also reportedly expected to find a partner for his "Club Shay Shay" podcast.

What of Skip Bayless and 'Undisputed'?​

Funnily enough, it looks like Fox will take the same approach to replace Sharpe that ESPN took when the network lost Max Kellerman, Bayless' "First Take" replacement, in 2021.

Rather than find a new partner for Smith, ESPN has brought in a rotating panel of guests to debate him, effectively making it the "Stephen A. Smith Show." Given that "Undisputed" already existed as Bayless' show, with the professional opinion-haver holding an enormous amount of control over the show's decision-making, it's not a surprise that Bayless seems headed for the rotating panel solution as well.

Former NFL cornerback Richard Sherman, rapper Lil Wayne and former ESPN reporter/analyst Rachel Nichols have already been reported to be in line for regular appearances on "Undisputed." The Post also reported former Dallas Cowboys wide receiver and NFL Network analyst Michael Irvin to be among the other candidates for a role.