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‘I Haven’t Been This Excited in My Entire Career’: Michael Smith Finds Redemption With Launch of Inflection Network
The critically acclaimed journalist and mass media juggernaut iHeartMedia are ready to change the podcast game.
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Jemele Hill Opens Up About ESPN’s “Conservative Culture” and Why She Ultimately Decided to Leave
"I didn’t get kicked off, I chose to leave because the experience wasn’t fun for me anymore."
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Following Maria Taylor’s Departure, Veteran Journalist LZ Granderson Announces Exodus From ESPN After 17 Years
The 49-year-old cited numerous struggles related to his race and sexuality that factored into his decision.
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About Damn Time! Michael Smith Makes His Triumphant Return to Television With New Sports Talk Show Brother From Another
As an ardent supporter of all things Jemele Hill and Michael Smith—His & Hers is the greatest television show in the history of ever and we can fight about it if you feel otherwise—I might’ve cried real tears when the dynamic duo inevitably split after bumping heads with ESPN. And while Jemele has gone on…
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New York Times Gets 1,400 Ideas for ‘Overlooked’ Obits
Newspaper Admits Shortchanging Women of Color Chilling Consequences for Covering Women’s Rights 4 Sessions to Train Newsroom Leaders of Color Boston Globe Finds Latinos Feel Invisible in Mass. Lester Holt Didn’t ‘Want to Be Defined by My Color’ Smith Joins Hill in Leaving ‘SportsCenter’ Experts Advise on Covering White Nationalists Revived ‘Indian Country’ to Hire;…
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Jamie Foxx Walks Off on-Air Interview When Asked About Katie Holmes
Guess it’s Jamie Foxx’s policy not to talk about his longtime lady friend. And SportsCenter’s Michael Smith found out the hard way. Smith was interviewing Foxx before the actor played in the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game on Friday night, and asked him about Katie Holmes, whom Foxx has been allegedly dating on the low for…
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Watch: Don’t Tell Michael Smith to ‘Stick to Sports’
“The people who rail against shows like ours that embrace the intersection of sport and society, what they’re really saying is, ‘It’s too black for me.’ The difference is you have a black man and a black woman being unapologetically black, and that turns some people off.” -—Michael Smith, co-host of ESPN’s SC6 The Root…
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SportsCenter’s Jemele Hill and Michael Smith’s A Different World Remake Is Epic
Our favorite sportscasters have done it for the culture. Jemele Hill and Michael Smith, hosts of the first hour of ESPN’s SportsCenter, on Friday opened their show with a remake of the intro of The Cosby Show spin-off A Different World. Hill and Smith, co-hosts of SC6, were almost unrecognizable as they perfectly blended into…
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Jemele Hill and Michael Smith Are Taking Over SportsCenter, and Somewhere, Stuart Scott Is Smiling
Even if you aren’t the biggest sports fan, you may have heard of Michael Smith and Jemele Hill. His & Hers, which began as a podcast conceived and hosted by Smith and Hill, proved so popular that in 2014 it replaced the ESPN2 show Numbers Never Lie, which Smith began co-hosting with Charissa Thompson in…