Tag: First Take

“At this juncture, I am electing to step aside temporarily from my ESPN duties.”

“You have a better chance to become President than monetizing your podcast if you're on the wrong side of an issue like this one,"

“I thought I was making it clear I was talking about basketball. I certainly did not mean to compare him to a person that was thrown out of this league and has been widely recognized as a racist.”

"Like a good team, they combine their individual perceptions and create a seamless mix of styles. The word I use to describe Unsportsmanlike is balance."

"Watching these driven players go all out, fighting for loose balls, and just plain hustling was quite scintillating. That, despite any outside changes, is the true purity of the game"

“There were multiple companies that we were talking with, because my contract was up, and ESPN seemed like the perfect place."

"Is there a needle in the sports media haystack that could find a way to win over the American populace and lead our country to greater days ahead?

"We are really unique in that our audiences are young, they’re consuming on different platforms and the investment from a company like ESPN, which has been around for 20 years investing in this space, is paying those dividends now."

“I found it less than the professional-level standard that I became accustomed to personally at Northwestern, at The Washington Post. Just talking about Bronny James, for what?”

"I see him, I confront him. That is the opposite of cowardly."