Why the insufferable Skip Bayless leaving ESPN is actually bad news for sports fans
 

Why the insufferable Skip Bayless leaving ESPN is actually bad news for sports fans
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Shameless provocateur and bloviator Skip Bayless is leaving ESPN.*Finally!*

ESPN's airwaves will be mercifully free of one of the most loathed personalities in sports media come summer.*But don't get too excited, well-meaning sports — free at last we most certainly are **t.*

Bayless leaving ESPN is actually bad news for sports fans. Here's why.*

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Bayless has been one half of ESPN's debate show First Take several years. The show's reliance on aggressive argumentation instead in place of facts, reason and storytelling has made it a mockery among many sports fans and observers.* Read more...


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