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Friday will mark the latest episode of a long -standing ESPN basic food, because “Around the Horn” will be out of the waves for good after about two decades of action.
Jay Mariotti, who was a regular on the show until his arrest of domestic violence in 2010, said in a recent interview that the program was canceled because it went “awake”.
But another panelist, Sarah Spain, wondered if the network had canceled the show, because they would be “afraid” of being labeled as such.
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Disney has teamed up with Penn Entertainment to create ESPN brand sports books. (Mike Windle / Getty images for ESPN)
“It confuses me that they cancel it. The format allows a continuous flow of new people, to highlight journalists from your network. She said in an interview with the Washington Post.
Tony Reali, the longtime host of the show, said that he did not “believe” that was the reason.
“I do not believe what it is. I honestly think that we have done 50,000 subjects over 23 years. You will tell me that 10 or 15 years old have made a eyebrow? I will be like” Yeah, we were doing complex subjects from time to time. “I do not put people in mass in time, so there are two or three who did not have the back that you may want.
ESPN dismissed about 20 leading personalities. (Kevin Abele / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
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In one of her last episodes earlier this month, Kate Fagan, who had made rare appearances since she left the network in 2018, was determined as the “winning” of the program against Jemele Hill, who was not in the program since the same year after being dismissed for negative positions on President Donald Trump.
In his victory monologue, Fagan pleaded that “the children are deserving to play sports”.
“Think about what you remember doing sports. Eighty percent of that discovers that Jersey for the first time, your favorite number, your community, joy, these High-Fives,” said Fagan. “This is this moment when you have an excellent game with a teammate. It is the feeling of belonging. And he does not know the genre. Children deserve the same thing as everyone. Sport is joy. Sport is humanity. And the more people who have that, the better.”
ESPN president John Skipper blamed the Barstool brand for his decision to cancel the show. (Reuters / Mike Segar)
Mariotti exceeded the hill in this aforementioned interview, adding The show “Lost an audience.” In another article on his own substitution, the title “Around the Horn ended a long time ago – when I left the show,” Mariotti reiterated that some panelists went “awake” while others were “on dope”.
