First Take

At the tail end of First Take’s extended discussion today about the ongoing debacle between the NBA and China,…

Future Mets All-Star Tim Tebow was on First Take Friday morning to talk with Stephen A. Smith and Max Kellerman…

I can’t decide what’s weirder: the realization that Carmelo Anthony’s NBA career is likely all the way over, or…

Now that Lonzo Ball has been traded to the New Orleans Pelicans, LaVar Ball has reemerged from what was a pleasant…

Stephen A. Smith isn’t the prime suspect in the First Take Fart Mystery, but he’s still getting grilled for it. On…

Here it is, the only reason to ever discuss First Take in a serious manner. During a characteristically loud…

On this morning’s First Take, an ESPN show for people who really should have slept in, Stephen A. Smith broke down…

The only way First Take can ever feel genuine or unscripted is when its loudmouths end up talking shop on air.…

With the Cowboys playing the Titans tonight, former Dallas receiver and current TV loudmouth Michael Irvin was on Fir…

How and why ESPN shout-master Stephen A. Smith ended up sermonizing to the Syracuse football team doesn’t really…

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…

I suppose the logical apotheosis of the media tour that LaVar Ball, patron saint of loud sports dads, has embarked…

Amid huge ratings declines, ESPN execs have decided to move First Take from ESPN2 to ESPN beginning in 2017, reports…

ESPN’s flagship shoutfest, First Take, has long and rightly been reviled for degrading everyone and everything it…

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ESPN has officially announced that Max Kellerman will be Skip Bayless’s replacement on First Take, confirming weeks o…

Stephen A. Smith has weighed in on Ayesha Curry’s thoughts on the NBA being rigged. The First Take goon called her…