‘Around the Horn’ canceled: the former hosts disagree after ‘wake up’ affirms

Earl this week, ESPN announced its “Around the horn” It will leave the air in May after more than two decades.

Jay Mariotti, who was a regular in the program until his arrest for domestic violence in 2010, said in a recent interview that the program is being canceled because It was “awakened.”

“I think what John Skipper wanted from some of the programs was that he began to install people in the programs that became Anti-Trump,” Mariotti told Front Office Sports.

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The ESPN logo in an electronic exhibition in Times Square in New York City on August 23, 2017. (Reuters/Mike Fresh)

Mariotti then mentioned Jemele Hill and Michael Smith by name, adding The show “I lost an audience.”

In a recent publication about its own substitution, entitled “Around the horn ended a long time ago, when I left the show,” Mariotti reiterated that some of the panelists “woke up” while others were “in drugs.”

Hill learned of the comments and took an exception.

“I really don’t appreciate Jay bringing my name to this or my friend Michael Smith. For one, I don’t even know Jay like that. And secondly, I began to do Ah in 2007 or 2008. Donald Trump was obviously not in office then, so he suggested that Espn began to put the anti-truth people in the program is just a silly statement,” Hill, “Hill.” Said in an X publication.

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

“The beauty of AH is that it was a mechanism to obtain a variety of voices in the air. It has launched and promoted so many races, including mine. Having a series of more than 20 years on sports television is a testimony of what became a show this program.”

Hill and Smith then co-organized their own Sportscentr. Hill left ESPN before the change of the decade and joined the Atlantic.

Disney was associated with Penn Entertainment to create ESPN brand betting houses. (Mike Windle/Getty images for ESPN)

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The final episode of the ESPN program will be broadcast on May 23.

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