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Skip Bayless’ new <i>Undisputed</i> co-hosts mean more ex-athletes replacing journalistsScreaming and arguing are in. Context and nuance are out. And over at FS1, the decibel levels just got louder, while the conversations just got dumber....

Report: ESPN Is Canceling <i>The Sports Reporters</i>The Sports Reporters, a Sunday morning talk show in which boomer columnists who stopped actually watching sports when Michael Jordan retired for the second time take turns benevolently donating their dignifying Pensive Faces to the vulgar ball-games, will be canceled, according to a report by Sports...

Hannah Storm Announces Live On <i>SportsCenter</i> That John Saunders Is DeadLongtime ESPN personality John Saunders is dead, as reported live this morning on SportsCenter by anchor Hannah Storm....

Mike Lupica's Pro-Gun-Control Essay On Today's <em>Sports Reporters</em> Makes Bob Costas Sound Like A Right-Winger

Mike Lupica's Daily News columns often take an unabashed liberal perspective, but the Sports Reporters panelist has generally kept his political takes off of ESPN's airwaves—by apparent directive of the WWL itself....

You May Be Taller, But You're Still Beneath Him

Mike Lupica's ego is to sportswriting what Milton Berle's cock is to comedy. It is an occupational totem, around which colleagues spin fantastical-seeming yarns that just so happen to be true. Here are a few such tales....