Earlier this week, ESPN announced that it is “around the horn” will go off the air in May after over two decades.

Jay Mariotti, who was a regular on the show, until his arrest at home in 2010, said in a recent interview that the show is canceled because it went “woke”.

“I think what John Skipper wanted from some of the shows was that he started installing people on the show that became anti-Trump,” Mariotti told Front Office sports.

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Mariotti then mentioned Jemele Hill and Michael Smith by name and added the show “Lost some audience.”

In a recent post on his own substack, the headline “around the horn ended long ago – when I left the show,” Mariotti repeated, some of the panelists went “woke up” while others were “on dope.”

Hill caught comments and took exception.

“I don’t really appreciate that Jay brings my name into this or my friend Michael Smith. First, I don’t even know Jay like that. And secondly, I started doing ATH in 2007 or 2008. Donald Trump was obviously not in office, so to suggest that ESPN started putting anti-trump people on the show on the purpose is just a stupid statement,” says Hill in a X-Into.

Jemele Hill poses for a photo on the red carpet at ESPN PARTY EVENT in Houston Arts District in Houston February 3, 2017. (Kirby Lee/USA Today Sports)

“The beautiful thing about ATH is that it was a mechanism to get a number of votes on the air. It has launched and promoted so many careers, including mine to have a race of over 20 years in Sports TV is a testimony to what an institution this show became.”

Hill and Smith later hosted their own sports center. Hill left ESPN ahead of the decade’s decade and joined the Atlantic Ocean.

Disney collaborated with Penn Entertainment to create the ESPN brand Sports Books. (Mike Windle/Getty Images to ESPN)

The ESPN show’s last episode is released May 23