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Matt Barrie: ESPN CFB panel is ‘auditioning for First Take and Get Up…all hot takes’
"We're just auditioning for First Take and Get Up. All hot takes on a Halloween Saturday."
Skip Bayless despises being labeled a hot take artist: ‘I’m not a poser, I’m not a grandstander, I’m not a windup toy.’
"LeBron has routinely proven me right over the years…you know it and I know it."
What’s next when hot-take culture infects academia?
Rob Parker and USC's attempt to create a micro-farm system of future TV hot-takers is depressing
After Nick Friedell and Monica McNutt’s repeated ESPN laughter, James Harden got the last laugh
"It could happen, but, I mean, really?"
Charles Barkley throws serious shade at cat lovers: ‘Not a real pet.’
"Old women have 'em."
Keith Olbermann says WBC ‘split up teammates based on where their grandmothers got laid,’ gets ratioed
"The WBC is a meaningless exhibition series designed to: get YOU to buy another uniform, to hell with the real season, and split up teammates based on where their grandmothers got laid."
Skip Bayless’ ‘PLACE-KICKING SHOULD BE ABOLISHED’ rant adds to his decades of raging against kickers
There's a long and strange history of Bayless arguing to end field goal kicking, and the world yelling at him for that argument.
Fred Segal talks ‘Freezing Cold Takes: NFL,’ missing Joe Theismann, Skip Bayless origins, & the ‘new media’
"Drama could be annoying. But that’s what people see and people like to talk about."
Tom Brady roasts Max Kellerman on the anniversary of his 2016 “fall off a cliff” prediction
"Tom Brady is going to be a bum in short order."
ESPN gave the Timberwolves’ Patrick Beverley a giant Get Up and First Take platform to air his decades-old grievances against Chris Paul
"CP can't guard nobody man. Everybody in the NBA know that. ...He's a cone."
Fox Sports’ Emmanuel Acho gets roasted for “legalizing weed is terribly dangerous if you throw the javelin” take
"Legalizing weed in track and field competition is terribly dangerous if you throw the javelin."
Mike Greenberg and Mark Teixeira use “Get Up” to minimize MLB players’ concerns over owners’ proposal, ignoring their own pasts
It's quite something to see Greenberg and Teixeira both arguing for players to take whatever ownership offers after their own histories of getting the most out of management.
Colin Cowherd hated Vince Young’s throwing motion because “He reminds me of Tebow,” must own a time machine
"I was never a big fan of Vince Young. I hated his throwing motion. I said 'He reminds me of Tebow, he wins games, but with that throwing motion, he'll never be a great pocket passer.'"
USA Today should be ridiculed for amplifying Gil Smart’s take that the Super Bowl LIV halftime show “looked a lot like softcore porn”
"Was the Super Bowl halftime show obscene?" That virulent Gil Smart take could have been kept to the Treasure Coast Newspapers, but USA Today decided to infect the rest of the country.
The five hottest takes from almost three years of This Week In Hot Takes, and the final hot take standings
After almost three years, This Week In Hot Takes is coming to an end. Here's a look at our picks for the five hottest takes we've covered, plus the final standings and thoughts on the top five finishers there.
This Week In Hot Takes: Skip Bayless melts down over Kawhi Leonard winning Finals MVP
Bayless has been hating on Leonard since Leonard left the Spurs, but he took that to a new level Thursday night and Friday morning after Leonard was named Finals MVP.
Fox’s Doug Gottlieb claims a Knicks’ max offer to Kevin Durant would be a negative: “If I’m Kevin Durant, that kind of turns...
"But for the Knicks, it feels like a sign of weakness, it feels like they have no other options, it feels like desperation. ...If I'm Kevin Durant, that kind of turns me off."
This Week In Hot Takes: Stephen A. Smith blasts ESPN’s Magic Johnson report with “People had anxiety, STOP THE PRESSES!”
"ESPN DOT COM decides to come out with a story ON THE DAY THAT MAGIC AND THE CREW ARE GOING TO BE HERE! Do I like the fact that I have to deal with it today? HELL NO!"
This Week In Hot Takes: Stephen A. Smith’s Knicks meltdown included “This is like being kidnapped, stored in a basement”
"IF YOU ARE A KNICK FAN, THIS IS THE EQUIVALENT OF BEING KIDNAPPED, STORED IN A BASEMENT, BEING TORTURED AND THEY LET YOU OUT WHEN YOU ARE NO USE TO ANYBODY! IF YOU ARE NOT A KNICKS FAN, YOU MAKE ME SICK! I DON'T LIKE ANY OF YOUS, ANY OF YOUS!"
This Week In Hot Takes: Christine Flowers is “wistful for a time when athletes didn’t crusade for social justice”
"The heroes from the past broke social barriers and worked toward a more perfect justice by being the best they could be in their fields. They did it with courage and dignity — not with outrage, accusation, and obscene lyrics."
This Week In Hot Takes: Phil Mushnick starts a column on a mascot change with “So I said to Joseph Goebbels”…
"So I said to Joseph Goebbels, “Burn any good books, lately?”" is a hell of a way to start a column about Long Beach State changing its mascot.
This Week In Hot Takes: Darren Rovell tells LSU gymnastics “No, you can’t put up a billboard for coming in second”
Rovell, a man who once gold-plated his shoes after finishing 21,463rd in a marathon, criticized a gymnastics team for celebrating finishing second nationally.
This Week In Hot Takes: Merril Hoge claims Boston University concussion researchers “cheat, lie, and abuse/suppress science”
"BU has created a narrative. We don’t allow our kids to cheat and lie, but we’re allowing a university to cheat, lie, and abuse/suppress science. That’s harmful to people and it’s wrong."
