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Free agent QB Colin Kaepernick is still waiting to learn if he'll play a seventh NFL season in 2017. Kaepernick's ESPN docuseries was recently scrapped.

ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro denies scrapping Colin Kaepernick docuseries for political reasons

"We made that decision many months prior to the NFL announcements."

By Ben Axelrod OnAug 21, 2025 0
Edit by Liam McGuire

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Spike Lee’s aborted ESPN Colin Kaepernick doc won’t be sold to another company

Oct 6, 2016; Santa Clara, CA, USA; San Francisco 49ers outside linebacker Eli Harold (58), quarterback Colin Kaepernick (7) and free safety Eric Reid (35) kneel in protest during the playing of the national anthem before a NFL game against the Arizona Cardinals at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports

Dave Dameshek says NFL bosses told him to stop talking about Colin Kaepernick

"It's not formal threatening or anything else. It's just like, 'Don't talk. Nobody cares what you think.'"

By Ben Axelrod OnAug 20, 2025 0
Monday Night Football logo via ESPN

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The NFL-ESPN deal is already changing everything

Despite Spike Lee saying ESPN's Colin Kaepernick documentary is dead, the series can still be shopped to other networks after leaving Disney.

Spike Lee’s Colin Kaepernick docuseries could still reportedly find new home after ESPN exit

Where could Da Saga of Colin Kaepernick land?

By Sam Neumann OnAug 18, 2025 0

Mike Florio: Colin Kaepernick docuseries ‘was destined to die’ regardless of NFL-ESPN deal

"But the NFL-ESPN relationship will make reasonable people believe the seeds for the scrapping of the show were planted the moment it appeared the NFL would end up owning part of ESPN."

By Drew Lerner OnAug 17, 2025 0
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ESPN nixes Spike Lee’s Colin Kaepernick docuseries

Lee told Reuters the series "is not coming out" but declined to elaborate due to an NDA.

By Sam Neumann OnAug 17, 2025 0
Feb 12, 2023; Glendale, Arizona, US; Recording artist Jay-Z with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell before Super Bowl LVII at State Farm Stadium.

Van Lathan says he knows ‘for sure’ Jay-Z’s Roc Nation seeded negative Colin Kaepernick stories

"They were into it. And sides were working."

By Ben Axelrod OnJul 25, 2025 0
Stephen A. Smith on The Stephen A. Smith Show

Stephen A. Smith: Shedeur Sanders’ draft slide ‘feels like Kaepernick-level collusion’

"This is Kaepernick all over again."

By Reice Shipley OnApr 26, 2025 0
Ryan Clark expressed discomfort with Sage Steele's comments questioning why President Barack Obama would identify as Black.

Ryan Clark confirms he once refused to work with Sage Steele after Barack Obama comments

"I didn't want my discomfort with what she said to show on screen."

By Sam Neumann OnJan 22, 2025 0
Ryan Clark on Nick Bosa, Colin Kaepernick

Ryan Clark wants to see same media response to Nick Bosa MAGA hat stunt as Colin Kaepernick protests

"I’m just waiting for all the people who comment under political and sports things to shut up and dribble or to shut up and play football, to tell him to shut up and rush."

By Brendon Kleen OnNov 1, 2024 0
Colin Kaepernick

Colin Kaepernick: ‘I would never be in a position where they will call and I won’t be ready’

"I would never be in a position where they will call and I won't be ready."

By Jessica Kleinschmidt OnOct 4, 2024 5
Colin Kaepernick

ESPN reportedly open to selling Spike Lee’s Colin Kaepernick doc

ESPN gave the series a greenlight in 2020, but still doesn't plan to air it for at least a year and will reportedly allow Lee, Kaepernick and Jemele Hill to shop it elsewhere.

By Brendon Kleen OnSep 27, 2024 0
Dan Le Batard made it known that a coaching offer is not enough to make up for the damage that the NFL has already done to Colin Kaepernick. Photo Credits: LeBatard Show on YouTube (Dan Le Batard, left); Kirthmon F. Dozier/USA TODAY NETWORK (Colin Kaepernick, right).

Dan Le Batard blasts NFL for ‘unforgivable’ treatment of Colin Kaepernick

"What they've done is not correctable."

By Michael Dixon OnAug 16, 2024 6
Stephen A Smith

Stephen A. Smith: ‘I don’t want to hear s***’ about Colin Kaepernick being an NFL QB anymore

"If we're going to talk about Colin Kaepernick, we need to talk about him honestly."

By Brendon Kleen OnAug 14, 2024 1

Mike Florio criticizes NFL collusion against Colin Kaepernick, but calls comeback hopes ‘delusional’

Mike Florio dished out brutal honesty regarding Colin Kaepernick's comeback hopes but called out his treatment by the NFL in the process.

By Matt Yoder OnAug 13, 2024 3

NBC Sports Boston’s Trenni Casey blasts Harrison Butker’s commencemt speech as ‘dehumanizing hate’

"You're not allowed to go out of your way to belittle, degrade and depict groups that don't look like you as subhuman."

By Sam Neumann OnMay 19, 2024 12
Whoopi Goldberg on The View

Whoopi Goldberg defends Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker, compares him to Colin Kaepernick

"The same way we want respect when Colin Kaepernick takes a knee, we want to give respect to people whose ideas are different from ours."

By Brandon Contes OnMay 16, 2024 3
Megan Rapinoe

Megan Rapinoe blasts ‘fake’ backlash to national anthem protest

"I know when I'm on track when that part of the internet starts saying crazy things."

By Brendon Kleen OnFeb 13, 2024 5
LeBron James mentioned in Fall Out Boy's We Didn't Start the Fire cover

Let’s review every sports reference in Fall Out Boy’s updated version of ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’ for some reason

We had to listen to this, so now you do too.

By Sean Keeley OnJun 28, 2023 6
Stephen A. Smith, Terrell Owens and Max Kellerman on First Take in 2019

Stephen A. Smith almost went ‘medieval’ when Terrell Owens said Max Kellerman was ‘blacker’ than him

"This is the one time I almost, almost lost it. When T.O. came on the air and said that Max seemed blacker than me."

By Brandon Contes OnJan 13, 2023 6
Colin Kaepernick and Ice Cube. (Left photo from Kirthmon F. Dozier/The Detroit Free Press via USA Today Sports, right photo from Kirby Lee/USA Today Sports.)

Shams Charania reported that Colin Kaepernick “is investing” in the BIG3, then Kaepernick’s rep told The Athletic “It’s just not true.”

On Wednesday, Shams Charania reported Colin Kaepernick "is investing" in the BIG3, "which was on the verge of potentially shutting down." On Thursday, The Athletic reported that Kaepernick's representative denied any investment: "It's just not true."

By Andrew Bucholtz OnJul 7, 2022 0

‘Kaepernick & America’ retraces origins, fallout from one of America’s fiercest culture war battles

Kaepernick & America takes us back to 2016 when Colin Kaepernick's decision grew into culture war chaos.

By Ben Koo OnJun 10, 2022 0
Colin Kaepernick

Spike Lee to direct Colin Kaepernick documentary for ESPN

Spike Lee is probably the perfect director for the project.

By Jay Rigdon OnFeb 3, 2022 4

Colin Kaepernick’s acquisition company loses lucrative deal due to his refusal to promote, do interviews

What good is celebrity status if it's not utilized to promote business deals?

By Ian Casselberry OnDec 25, 2021 44

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