Stephen A. Smith tackled the difficult topic of the recent layoffs at ESPN while hosting his Stephen A. Smith Show on Monday.
While the sports media world reels from the news that ESPN has parted ways with approximately 20 on-air talents, the network is getting a measure of criticism from one of its own.
“ESPN laid off about 20 members of its on-air talent … friends of mine, actually, definitely respected colleagues who’d done a phenomenal job and deserved better,” said Smith.
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Police are looking for two suspects in regard to a stabbing that took place during Qatar’s 1-0 win over Mexico in Group B of the CONCACAF Gold Cup on Sunday evening in Santa Clara, Calif.
At 8:47 p.m. that evening, around the close of the match, Santa Clara police responded to a brawl in the stands “involving multiple attendees,” according to a Tuesday morning report from KPIX-TV in San Francisco. A man eventually was located with a knife wound on his neck.
With Aaron Judge still not back in the Yankees lineup due to the sprained right big toe that he suffered on June 3, it’s possible that the slugger is considering an offseason solution.
“There’s talk of surgery, but I don’t think we’re at that [point],” Judge said Tuesday, via MLB.com. “I’m not a doctor. I have no idea. They throw around eight different things.”
If Judge does decide to undergo surgery, it won’t be until after the 2023 season ends. It’s unclear when Judge could return, but he clearly expects to return this season.
Mike Trout has been put on the IL with a fractured hamate bone in his left hand.
After waiting out a weather delay of nearly two hours, Joey Chestnut ate 62 hot dogs and buns to win his eight-straight Mustard Belt and 16th overall at the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest.
The flopping penalty would result in the opposing team being awarded one free throw and possession of the ball.
The Padres designated slugger Nelson Cruz for assignment on Tuesday in a series of moves.
Brazil star Neymar was fined more than $3.3 million for violating environmental rules during renovations at his mansion in the city of Mangaratiba outside Rio de Janeiro.
Scoot Henderson is set to make somewhere between eight and nine million dollars as a rookie in the NBA after being drafted No. 3 overall by the Portland Trail Blazers. However, as exciting as that may be, it isn’t his dream.
At least, it wasn’t his dream.
The 19-year-old point guard grew up with different aspirations in a different sport. Henderson wanted to play football, not basketball.
Ironically, had he followed the path he had yearned for as kid, it would have led him to the same state.
Flopping has long been a subject of debate in NBA circles, with various rules to combat the practice being introduced and tweaked over the course of the past quarter-century.
This summer, the league is amending its flopping rules once again to include its toughest in-game penalty yet for the transgression.
In the NBA Summer League, a rule will be tested whereby a flopping call will result in the opposing team receiving one free throw and the ball. The player guilty of flopping will be assessed with a non-unsportsmanlike technical foul.