And here are some excellent comments from readers on why ESPN has come to this sorry state:
liv2ski 1 hour ago
When you've become a liberal cesspool - this is what you end up with, a dying company. See ya.
DavidF 2 hours ago
news flash for the media- When you merge politics with sports/entertainment/news or anything else, you #$%$ off half of your audience. And eventually lay off half your employees.
tom 2 hours ago
Please remove Stephen A Smith, Jamelle Hill, and Michael Smith. ESPN went downhill starting with the Caitlyn Jenner award nonsense. Now they mascarade as an alt left opinion based talk show. Every new launch has a liberal backing behind it, if I could remove ESPN from my programming I would, someday I will be able to, and that's when ESPN will faulter
Shore105 1 hour ago
Maybe another story on transgender bathrooms delivered by another social justice warrior snowflake will help ESPN.
creepy 1 hour ago
What they meant to say was their audience got tired of ESPN injecting politics into sports, and they can't afford to pay all the snowflakes now.
RC 1 hour ago
Get out of politics and stick to sports.
wildcrzy 1 hour ago
When they started voicing their political opinions, the lost me and many other viewers
Seleric 1 hour ago
Talent? That being generous, hopefully Skip Bayless and Stephen A Smith are part of the "no talent" cuts.
R 1 hour ago
what don't businesses understand? Target stores said they would allow transgender people into the other restroom. Their business fell off big time. ESPN pushes Bruce Jenner ( refuse to call him by anything else) and viewership dropped. Main Street, middle america doesn't want that...Comprehend????
Almost Retired 1 hour ago
When your reporters are liberals and regular sports loving Americans suddenly find themselves exposed to the liberal's political opinions - America changes channels. Profits decline. So Walt Disney thins-out the liberals. In the end, all liberals end up broke and unemployed - usually on welfare.
BobbyDe 1 hour ago
That's what you get when you go political. I used to watch ESPN for sports. Then they got into politics, Catlin Jenner, Tom Brady witch hunt, Kaepernick taking a knee, etc. ESPN is now unwatchable.
john 1 hour ago
who wants to watch this liberal agenda posing as sports news!
Millerbarber 1 hour ago
If they would move from the ultra liberal view to a more middle of the road view they could win back viewers. I stopped watching ESPN other than sporting events
Chris 1 hour ago
Hope Stephen A Smith gets the axe! I quit watching ESPN two years ago because of that jerk.
(There are a couple of thousand more in that same general vein.)