Skip Bayless is Abrogation ESPN, Reportedly for Fox Sports

Skip Bayless is reportedly authoritative the move to Fox Sports if his arrangement expires in August. After 12 years at ESPN in which he accustomed himself as one of the a lot of alienated abstracts in sports commentary, Skip Bayless has autonomous to put his hot takes on the accessible market.

ESPN appear Tuesday that Bayless will be abrogation the arrangement if his arrangement expires about the end of
August. Bayless abutting “First Take” in 2007 and has been a basic on the actualization anytime since, allowance to abound it into one of the network’s a lot of discussed — and a lot of hated — daytime shows. ESPN appear a abrupt account Tuesday thanking Bayless for his contributions.

Skip Bayless has absitively to leave ESPN if his arrangement expires at the end of August. His final actualization on First Take will be the day afterwards the NBA Finals conclude. We wish to acknowledge Skip for his abounding contributions to ESPN. His harder plan and aptitude accept benefited ESPN for 12 years.

Citing an bearding source, Deadspin’s Kevin Draper letters that Bayless is abrogation the Worldwide Leader in Sports to accompany Fox Sports, which has been stockpiling on-air aptitude of its own in the accomplished brace years, bringing in accustomed arguable hosts like Colin Cowherd, Clay Travis and Jason Whitlock and establishing a ascent brilliant in Katie Nolan.

According to Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch, ESPN will abide to air “First Take” afterward Bayless’s abandonment and has already started absorption down candidates to alter the 64-year-old host. An ESPN agent accepted the address in an email. Molly Qerim, a contempo accession to the show, and Stephen A. Smith, the added capital talking arch on “First Take,” will break on with the show. Smith’s arrangement was renewed in aboriginal 2015. According to columnist James Andrew Miller, who wrote “Those Guys Accept All the Fun: Inside

The World of ESPN,” the at-times controversial television personality is currently making north of $3 million per year in his current role.
ESPN has lost numerous on-air talents in the past several months, some by way of firing, like Curt Schilling, others, like Mike Tirico and now Bayless, by way of outside suitors. Bayless’s final “First Take” appearance will occur within the next two months, as the NBA Finals starting June 2.