Awful Announcing
"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."
"You take your privilege filled with failure, and troll just for attention."
In 2016, Max Kellerman said that Tom Brady is "going to fall off a cliff" and "be a bum in short order."
"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."
Max Kellerman's take upset Williams so much he walked off.
"I still believe that when it's all said and done, and that disgruntled person who wasn't taken care of comes out and writes that book and lays it all out on the table, that Tom Brady will be looked at the same light as Lance Armstrong. He'll be Lance Armstrong without the bicycle."
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This is ROUGH.
ESPN's 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Eastern programming will all originate from New York after this move.
Lindsay appeared on First Take in 2017, and is back to host the morning edition for a week while the usual cast moves to afternoon specials.
"I am incredibly happy to have Adrian Wojnarowski with us, incredible insider, does a phenomenal job, but there's room for one more. I would love to see my man Marc Stein back."
"This is not the time for him to be saying that with the residue of the protests and all that it caused."
Bayless calling anyone else a self-promoter? Now that's a hot take.
