Stephen A. Smith apologizes for Shohei Ohtani comments on Tuesday’s ‘First Take’: “I was wrong, period”
In response, Jeff Passan said that ESPN and its pundits should not "be trafficking in ignorance."
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Stephen A. Smith’s “People are misinterpreting what I’m saying” follow-up led to him actually apologizing later (updated)
"My segment on Ohtani this morning on First Take, people are misinterpreting what I'm saying."
Which of the big 4 sports talk shows talked about Dak Prescott’s deal the most and Is 93% of a show too much...
As you are probably aware by now, Dak Prescott’s two year game of chicken with Jerry Jones and...
Stephen A. Smith unloads on Max Kellerman over Kawhi Leonard’s performance in Clippers NBA Playoffs loss
"You should be banned from talking about the sport!"
Domonique Foxworth casually mentions Dak Prescott’s mom on First Take, oblivious that she died of cancer in 2013
Prescott's mother died of cancer in 2013 and probably should have not been mentioned
Stephen A. Smith says MLB would’ve suspended players for sign-stealing if more of them were black
"If the league was a majority black league, there's no way in hell that players would've been granted immunity."
Undisputed’s best day ever Friday drew 52 percent of First Take’s audience that day, illustrating the gulf between the shows
Undisputed's 366,000 viewers Friday was a record for that show, but it was only 52 percent of the 700,000 viewers First Take drew then.
Stephen A. Smith brings up Israel-Palestine on “no politics” ESPN, Molly Qerim quickly rushes to commercial break
"I would remind you that, throughout this world, one of the things that exists is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I don't see folks outside the Jewish community talking about that too often."
Stephen A. Smith’s latest NFL blunder is twice mixing up the Yankees’ Luke Voit and the Jets’ Luke Falk
"The only people that are worse than him are, I think, if I remember correctly, Cam Newton and Luke Voit. And Cam Newton is hurt, and Luke Voit, I didn't even know who the hell he was until guys got injured."
Tim Tebow’s defense of the NCAA’s model drew plenty of criticism from his ESPN colleagues
Tebow's points missed the mark for a lot of his fellow ESPN personalities.
Carl Lewis calls out Max Kellerman over saying track stars are failed football and basketball players
"You take your privilege filled with failure, and troll just for attention."
After leaving Turner, Rosalyn Gold-Onwude will be hosting a series of First Take shows on ESPN
This is the first part of Gold-Onwude's "next chapter" post-Turner, but it's unclear what else she'll be doing, and whether that will be at ESPN or not.
Tom Brady takes dig at ESPN’s Max Kellerman over ‘going to fall off a cliff’ comment from 2016
In 2016, Max Kellerman said that Tom Brady is "going to fall off a cliff" and "be a bum in short order."
