Stephen A. Smith tells America to ‘calm down’ over Bart Scott’s Damar Hamlin breakdown
"People are walking around acting like Bart Scott...was alluding to Tee Higgins doing something like that on purpose. He did no such thing"
"People are walking around acting like Bart Scott...was alluding to Tee Higgins doing something like that on purpose. He did no such thing"
"In what world does he think no one had a problem with it when the person sitting across the desk from him clearly had a problem with it"
It's not a record to celebrate, but ESPN averaged nearly 23.8 million viewers as they covered Damar Hamlin's collapse.
"I'm not about to judge Skip Bayless or anybody else for saying the wrong thing."
Damar Hamlin's injury was 'a frightening, difficult-to-watch situation that all of us hope never to see again'
"Maybe this is not the right thing to do, but it's just on my heart that I wanna pray for Damar Hamlin right now."
"I was under the impression you weren’t going to bring this up because nobody here had a problem with that tweet."
"I don’t think anyone wants to see these two teams return to the scene in Cincinnati of this traumatic event."
"We reported what we were told in the moment and immediately updated fans as new information was learned"
Skip Bayless was on-air for Tuesday morning’s live taping of Undisputed on FS1, but Shannon Sharpe was noticeably absent.
"The way that would work, if it did, would mean that there would be no games this weekend. And maybe Cincinnati and Buffalo restart next Monday."
"And then came my third tweet, which I believe was widely misconstrued, misinterpreted."