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Friday marks the last episode of a long -standing ESPN staple, as “around the horn” will be away from the air waves too well after about two decades of action.
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 up.”
But another panelist, Sarah Spain, questioned whether the network canceled the show because they would be “scared” to be labeled as such.
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Disney collaborated with Penn Entertainment to create the ESPN brand Sports Books. (Mike Windle/Getty Images to ESPN)
“It confuses me that they cancel it. The format allows for a continuous stream of new people to highlight journalists on your network. I’m certainly partisl, but this are progressive voices and people in colors you take of TV. I don’t know for sure it’s their intention, but are you so afraid of being called ‘securing’?” She said in an interview with the Washington Post.
Tony Reali, the long -time host of the show, said he didn’t “believe” that was the reason.
“I don’t think what it is. I honestly think we did 50,000 items over 23. You want to tell me that 10 or 15 pulled up an eyebrow? I want to be like, ‘yes, we did some complex topics from time to time.’ I do not stem people in face time, so maybe there are two or three there that did not have it back and forth as you want.
ESPN dismissed about 20 prominent personalities on the air. (Kevin Abele/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
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In one of his last episodes earlier this month, Kate Fagan, who had appeared, was scarce appearances since leaving the network in 2018, determined as “the winner” of the show against Jemele Hill, who had not been on the show since that year after firing for negative positions on President Donald Trump.
In his victory monologue, Fagan made a plea that “Trans -Children deserve to play sports.”
“Think about what you remember from your time playing sports. Night-seven percent of it finds that Jersey for the first time, your favorite number, community, joy, the high-fives,” Fagan said. “That’s the moment you have a good game with a teammate. That’s the feeling of belonging. And it doesn’t know gender. Trans kids deserve the same as everyone else does. Sport is joy. Sport is humanity. And the more people who have it, the better.”
ESPN -President John Skipper accused the Barstool mark of his decision to cancel the show. (Reuters/Mike Segar)
The Mariotti-Name-dropped tray in the aforementioned interview, added The show “Lost something audience.” In another post on his own substack, the headline “Around Hornet ended a long time ago – when I left the show,” Mariotti repeated that some of the panelists went “woke up” while others were “on dope.”
