Beware the diminishing returns of Skip Bayless
This originally appeared in the Thursday edition of The A Block, Awful Announcing’s daily newsletter with the latest sports media news, commentary, and analysis. Sign up here and be the first to know everything you need to know about the sports media world. Before last week’s Skip Bayless-Stephen A.
Smith reunion on First Take, I wrote…
Credit: ESPN This originally appeared in the Thursday edition of The A Block, Awful Announcing’s daily newsletter with the latest sports media news, commentary, and analysis. Sign up here and be the first to know everything you need to know about the sports media world. Before last week’s Skip Bayless-Stephen A.
Smith reunion on First Take, I wrote a piece about how this was an exercise in anti-nostalgia . “Everyone remembers that Stephen A. Smith and Skip Bayless used to yell at one another every morning on ESPN, but no one could tell you anything about what they yelled about,” I wrote.
“There are no iconic moments. No memes from that era continue to populate social media platforms or Slack channels. There isn’t a single debate, take, or zinger that has stood the test of time.