Tag: Stephen A. Smith

"While he spent most of the day on a boat alongside Molly Qerim and Michael Irvin, Smith did receive his fair share of ribbing."

ESPN announced Smith will be returning to First Take on Monday, August 15th.

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

...if you feel yourself getting uncomfortable over the fact that you were wrong, stop to realize that’s your pride talking. Your ego. And if people call you out for being wrong, it’s actually a good sign.

“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.”

“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.

"Skip Bayless comes to me in a parking lot on the campus of ESPN... and he says, 'I know you got your plans. You love the NBA. You love being out on the road, you love being in the locker room, but I need you.'"

"I can honestly tell you I believe, that if I were in politics, it might have got me killed because of the world we’re living in. If it didn’t get me killed, it would have me as a pariah by half of the country. Like the likes of a Sean Hannity..."

Danny O'Neil is rooting for JJ Redick in his new media role and has some advice to help him "flush" out some old media takes.