I Don't Think Stephen A. Smith Watches Much Football
On this morning’s First Take, an ESPN show for people who really should have slept in, Stephen A. Smith broke down…
Stephen A. Smith And Will Cain Debate About Debating
The only way First Take can ever feel genuine or unscripted is when its loudmouths end up talking shop on air. Stephen…
Profusely Sweaty Michael Irvin Had To Be Wiped Down While Screaming About The Cowboys On First Take
With the Cowboys playing the Titans tonight, former Dallas receiver and current TV loudmouth Michael Irvin was on First…
Stephen A. Smith(?) Delivers Motivational Speech(??) To Syracuse Football Team(???)
How and why ESPN shout-master Stephen A. Smith ended up sermonizing to the Syracuse football team doesn’t really…
This First Take Segment Is Really Something
A fun game to play with this bar fight of a First Take segment is to pause it at any point during its seven-minute…
LaVar Ball Vs. Stephen A. Smith Made For Some Profoundly Dumb TV
I suppose the logical apotheosis of the media tour that LaVar Ball, patron saint of loud sports dads, has embarked upon…
First Take Moved To ESPN As Skip Bayless Closes In
Amid huge ratings declines, ESPN execs have decided to move First Take from ESPN2 to ESPN beginning in 2017, reports…
Skip Bayless Is Gaining On ESPN In A Ratings War That Doesn't Matter
ESPN’s flagship shoutfest, First Take, has long and rightly been reviled for degrading everyone and everything it…
Good Luck, Everybody
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Stephen A. Smith Thinks Ayesha Curry Should Act More Like LeBron's Wife, And Be Quiet
Stephen A. Smith has weighed in on Ayesha Curry’s thoughts on the NBA being rigged. The First Take goon called her…
Skip Bayless Gets Emotional Over Leaving ESPN To Peddle His Shitty Takes Elsewhere
Today’s episode of First Take began with Skip Bayless addressing the news that he’ll be leaving ESPN after the NBA…
Stephen A. Smith Delivers Movie-Villain Monologue On First Take
Stephen A. Smith, ESPN’s professional unintelligible empanada truck, tried to drop exclusive information about Kevin…
Stephen A. Smith To Critics: "Grow Up"
ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith responded to criticism of his public support for Floyd Mayweather and his recent role as a…
Awful Announcing reports (via SportsGrid) on a disturbing First Take segment from earlier this month that escaped our…
Stephen A. Smith Floats The Theory That Maybe Chip Kelly Is A Racist
Listen. First Take is a trashy, cynical show that exists so that Stephen A. Smith and Skip Bayless, two of the widest…
Stephen A. Smith Melts Down Over NOW's Call For Goodell To Resign
Yesterday, the National Organization for Women released a statement calling for NFL commissioner Roger Goodell's…
Shannon Sharpe: "Josh Gordon Is A Marijuana Junkie"
Shannon Sharpe was a guest co-host on this morning's episode of First Take and he had some weird things to say about…
Stephen A. Smith Is Off ESPN For The Next Week
The statement from ESPN, which very specifically does not mention the word "suspension":