Sports blog The Big Lead has given us all an early Christmas present by reporting on the imminent departure of ESPN basketball analyst Stephen A. Smith, a man who has come to be nearly as despised as hemorrhoids thanks to his bombastic, catch-phrase ridden on-air style and bootlicking tendencies. “Screamin’ A.,” The Big Lead points out, was once one of the hottest commodities on the World-Wide Leader, even landing his own talk-show, but in recent months has been eclipsed as a hoops reporter by such comparatively muted personalities as J.A. Adande and Tim Legler. Evidently, the people at ESPN came to be as annoyed by Smith’s hypey, ass-kissing, “the louder I say it the more right I’ll seem” approach to dissecting roundball as most in the viewing audience. Or perhaps whatever contract Smith signed with Satan to become so famous in the first place has simply run out. Either way, ESPN basketball coverage will soon be a lot less irritating. Now if we could just do something about Jay Mariotti…
Tags: ESPN, j.a. adande, jay mariotti, stephen a. smith, tim leglerGoodbye Stephen A. Smith. Hello Blissful Silence.
Stephen A. was really fired because he commited the most unthinkable word gestures ,he commented that he was tired of hearing about the return of the Elvis of football, the great Brett Farve.That's what really did it. Just a personal thought.
This move is but a small, first step for ESPN. Over the past five years, ESPN coverage and news reports have degenerated into an hour of over-blown headlines, the sensationalism of personal and/or other stories peripheral to actual sporting events, and a competition between anchors to see who can come up with the most creative one-liners, and commentary to describe a particular game or play. In other words, ESPN has become ALL Hype. SportsCenter used to provide insightful commentary, and a no nonsense approach to sports. Nowadays, it is a nauseating, unpalatable sideshow. I now limit my ESPN viewing to the one or two game recaps I'm interested in, and a few of the remaining "real journalists" that are still around. The rest of the crew, particularly the anchors, have become no better than the douch-bags who do cable news; CNN, Fox, etc. I'd rather watch the local coverage.
Sports is better with people you love or people you love to hate! And Steven A. spent years as a top Philadelphia writer for a major newspaper, he payed his dues for his success. You guys are just hatin'
I happen to love Stephen A Smith and will never watch
ESPN again. Whats so wrong with hearing someone express themselves.Grow up.....
yay!!!!!! no more of that racist, loud mouth asshole!!
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