ESPN tried to kick Jemele Hill off 6 p.m. SportsCenter bc of Trump tweets

EXCLUSIVE: ESPN tried to kick Jemele Hill off the air and replace her with another black host

ESPN originally tried to keep Hill off the air on Wednesday evening, but Smith refused to do the show without her, the sources said. Both sources also said that producers reached out to two other black ESPN hosts, Michael Eaves and Elle Duncan, to ask them to serve as fill-ins for the show — but Eaves and Duncan did not agree to take the place of Hill and Smith, either.

At 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon, Eaves expressed his frustration with that day.

Man.. this day got me like..

Faced with the possibility of having to replace Hill and Smith with white co-hosts, the sources said, ESPN then called Hill and asked her to come back on her show.​

ESPN can teach master classes in how trying to please everyone ends up pleasing no one. They do it consistently. Just chickenshit moves on the regular by Rob King and that ilk.

 

I see you’ve been following this story closely.

LINDSAY GIBBS SEP 14, 2017, 5:24 PM

 

No, let's do it again!

 

Nope. I read the news once a week. Saves me from wasting my time chasing my own tail on Twitter like some humps I know. Also, I'm an idiot and I didn't see the dateline; I saw it posted first on Real Clear Sports and just figured it was fresh. I will now commit harakari.

 

That's a nuanced way to say tripping over their own dicks, right?

 

Last week's news today!

 

listen, man, I can only commit seppuku once

 

They were going to have Wright Thompson do it, but the hat was non-negotiable, so he walked.

 

Doing it in blackface was OK, but sans fedora? No way.

 

They should've had a couple nerdy white guys do the show, then halfway through have Jemele and Mike walk in and interrupt it like an 80s WWF interview.

 

OK, but then who would do the a.m. drive show on the radio?

 

They have more than a couple of nerdy white guys there. I actually was thinking of the one guy who used to do Sportscenter sometimes. Forgot his name, but he looks like Neil Patrick Harris and the kid from Heaven Help Us who masturbated all the time.