Suzy Kolber, Jeff Van Gundy and Keyshawn Johnson out at ESPN

[Obliviax]

...and Joe Namath still wants to "kish" her

Jeff Van Gundy, Keyshawn Johnson and Suzy Kolber among those reportedly out at ESPN due to on-air layoffs

Not even beloved on-air personalities are safe from ESPN's latest round of layoffs.

sports.yahoo.com

 

[The Spin Meister]

Things that make you go hhmmmnnn….

One guy just signed a five year, $18 million contract a year ago….and will still be paid….but this is a cost savings move?

If he must be paid, keep him and lay off others.🤷🏿‍♂️

 

[Obliviax]

Steve Young out as well.

 

[Obliviax]

Matt Hasselbeck, Todd McShay out. pretty bloody Friday at ESPN

 

[Obliviax]

add max kellerman to the list.

 

[RickinDayton]

Matt Hasselbeck, Todd McShay out. pretty bloody Friday at ESPN

Wow, clearing out lots of folks. Be interesting to see where they all land.

 

[PSU Soupy]

As long as they keep Boomer for his 2 minute replays on Monday Night Football. Very relevant tv. 😉

 

[The Spin Meister]

For all I care they should dump the entire pre game and half time shows. Including Game Day. Never watch them.…..except the rare occasion Game Day is at Penn State😉. They are mostly a waste of time with too much mindless gibberish and promoting future programing.

 

[Lion84]

Maybe at some point they will figure out what people want to see on a sports channel - sports maybe.

 

[LemonEars]

Looks to me like ESPN management did an evaluation of their staff and they cut out the low performers. Good move for ESPN.

 

[pennstatepelly]

Wow. I listened to Key, JWill, and Max for a long time. They were in the prime spot. Did JWill get canned as well?

 

[pennstatepelly]

Things that make you go hhmmmnnn….

One guy just signed a five year, $18 million contract a year ago….and will still be paid….but this is a cost savings move?

If he must be paid, keep him and lay off others.🤷🏿‍♂️

How does that work? Let’s save money by letting him go but we will pay him the full amount of his contract? ! If they are going to give him the money anyway, they might as well make him work, no?!

 

[The Spin Meister]

How does that work? Let’s save money by letting him go but we will pay him the full amount of his contract? ! If they are going to give him the money anyway, they might as well make him work, no?!

My point exactly.

 

[Online Persona]

Maybe at some point they will figure out what people want to see on a sports channel - sports maybe.

I doubt that. People tune into sports shows for politics, same as live sports.

 

[The Spin Meister]

I doubt that. People tune into sports shows for politics. Same as live sports.

Think you got screwed by a typo. Makes more sense without the period in the middle.

 

[psrurock]

Hope they get rid of MLB broadcasters as well. Arod and others don't even commentate on the game, bunch of annoying fluff talk about themselves. Have to turn off the sound when watching the game on ESPN.

 

[KC-KS-Lion]

Matt Hasselbeck, Todd McShay out. pretty bloody Friday at ESPN

Ouch!!

 

[Ian]

Don’t watch any of them. Won’t miss any of them. I’m not weeping over the multimillionaire ex jocks/coaches for the most part. Why have three people on broadcast anyway?

 

[Nittany1997]

Kolber was waaaay overrated by most on this board.

 

[ryoder1]

Keyshawn is terrible. Always seems totally unprepared when I listen to him.

 

[NewEra 2014]

Looks to me like ESPN management did an evaluation of their staff and they cut out the low performers. Good move for ESPN.

Plus they kept all of the racists. Great move.

 

[LandoComando]

Maybe at some point they will figure out what people want to see on a sports channel - sports maybe.

College GameDay and their 30/30 series are successful. The NFL has too many networks doing pregame but ESPN is unrivaled with college football.

I'd rather watch any sports talk show than the WNBA or MLB at this point honestly. Not sure what sports you want them to show all day. They'd have to start airing European sports that no one will watch to make that happen.

 

[NewEra 2014]

College GameDay and their 30/30 series are successful. The NFL has too many networks doing pregame but ESPN is unrivaled with college football.

I'd rather watch any sports talk show than the WNBA or MLB at this point honestly. Not sure what sports you want them to show all day. They'd have to start airing European sports that no one will watch to make that happen.

They are trying to ruin 30 for 30 with WNBA stories and the like. But I enjoyed the Bill Walton episodes.

 

[LandoComando]

They are trying to ruin 30 for 30 with WNBA stories and the like. But I enjoyed the Bill Walton episodes.

No disagreement--some have been poor and the one about the Women's Olympic Basketball team pathing the way for the WNBA being 3 parts was comical but that's just about ESPN and the media trying to make people are about the WNBA--which they'll never get enough people to care about an inferior product.

 

[JoeLion]

Has anyone started a Go Fund Me account for these folks yet?😏

 

[amblernit]

suzy kolber. dresher pa. and upper dublin grad

 

[PSUWrestlingFanSince2011]

All they do is show womens sports. Wtf do they expect?

 

[AvgUser]

My first casualty would have been SA Smith. I cannot stand him at all. I don't think I’m in the minority, either

 

[bison13]

Holy cow they should fire the two doing sports center right now, they are awful. This bald woman can’t talk and the dude tries to make everything too extra

 

[SLion]

My first casualty would have been SA Smith. I cannot stand him at all. I don't think I’m in the minority, either

Taking Desmond with him, now that is a change that makes sense

 

[AvgUser]

Holy cow they should fire the two doing sports center right now, they are awful. This bald woman can’t talk and the dude tries to make everything too extra

The bald woman. 😂😂😂😂

 

[ryoder1]

David Pollack was fired. Bad move. I like him, straight shooter.

 

[LandoComando]

David Pollack was fired. Bad move. I like him, straight shooter.

Yeah thats the only move that truly surprised me. Pollack was good for the show.