Tag: First Take

"In his nearly 20-minute speech, Dick Vitale promised the audience that he was not going to give up on Valvano's dream of putting an end to cancer."

"Is your point that Danny Ainge might be following the same blueprint in Utah that he executed in Boston? Because that’s a really good point. And instead of letting everyone twist themselves dizzy try to get there, why don’t you, I don’t know, say what you mean in the fewest words possible. That’s kind of the whole idea of effective communication."

"I've been at ESPN for twelve years and one of the big differences from when I started to now is just how much analysis they have, the producers and the decision makers have on what people are watching and they respond to."

"When Ray Rice was on the elevator punching his then fiancée now wife, we all had to talk about it. They were very clear that I couldn’t weigh in. What does that look like? We're talking about domestic violence and you have the only woman in the show not being able to discuss it."

"On Friday morning, Brian Windhorst delivered his "what's going on in Utah" analysis of the Jazz trading Royce O'Neale to the Brooklyn Nets on ESPN's First Take."

"Brothers fight. We have fought before. I'm assuming we will fight again."

“Skip and Stephen A, and Skip even moreso than Stephen A, but both of them are guys that didn’t play, that are just hot takers.”

Russo told Stern that he was contracted for 40 weekly appearances on ESPN's First Take. He also dropped the scoop that the network was paying $10,000 per appearance.

“Fred Toucher said that both men’s opinions rest on overstating the importance of First Take to ESPN.”

“I thought, ‘how could my brother Stephen A. turn on me like that?’ On me? Seriously?” Bayless said on the podcast.