ESPN Ending Around The Horn in 2025 EDIT: Last Episode Will Air On May 23
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I Am A God
They're paying so much for the rights to these leagues that they can't afford to spend on anyone but the top talents like Stephen A Smith who will work himself like a dog.
He Who Posts Well
Veteran
I remember when I wouldnt leave the house until I saw ESPN top 10 plays. Now highlights are up within 10 or so minutes of it happening. It's amazing how times have changed.
Live events and special talent/personalities are the only things people are gonna tune in to live TV for in this day and age. It really doesnt pay to invest in anything else. The issue with ATH is that its not star driven and we can watch 1000 pods with people going back and forth over various topics. So it really has no place in 2025.
It felt like once Stuart Scott died, that's when we started seeing this massive shift in sports commentary/journalism.Last of a bygone era for me. 07-17 espn and espn radio gave me some entertainment
Max and marcellus
SVP and rusillo
Dan LeBatard show
00’s Mike and Mike when I needed a morning drive show
Sportscenter with Stu Scott
OG First Take when Skip just had segments…Jay Crawford, reischea candidate, Dana jacobson
Sportsnation
His & hers
Jalen and jacoby
Highly questionable
PTI
ATH
The jump (early Rachel Nichols was cool)
I don’t fukk with anything on ESPN anymore. I may watch and occasional NBA today episode, but damn, I used to stay locked to that station on my WFH days back then
The next year was when Trump came into the political zeitgeist and started crowbarring his way into every conversation.
ATH became expendable, because it’s the socially conscious, “woke” show featuring a diverse group of panelists. ESPN is leaning in on the “dude bro” Pat Mcafee and MAGA apologists like Stephen A personalities to appeal to that demographic now
BelowTheMasonDixon
Veteran
Saw a random episode and legit thought they had dug up the corpse of Woody Paige. I know people get old, but that nikka looked like he was in his hundreds and not the one hundreds either
AlbertPullhoez
The Takeover
The ESPN I knew was dead and gone when they ended ESPN Classic
<<TheStandard>>
I Am A God
I was just speaking to my agent and he told me ESPN is interested in me but they're not even an option because they're not even really hiring new talent.
I interviewed with them back in 2020 and again in 2022 the same week when they let a lot of people go.
Facts, depending on the highlight, their will be a post of it almost immediately on socials.
If there's some monster poster dunk that goes down, it's on Bleacher Report, NBA, the team's IG account instantly
Lefty Gunz
Superstar
I remember when Max Kellerman hosted this show. I haven’t watched in years
Sportcenter isn't sportscenter anymore.Facts, depending on the highlight, their will be a post of it almost immediately on socials.
If there's some monster poster dunk that goes down, it's on Bleacher Report, NBA, the team's IG account instantly
I've said this countless times and that's ESPN has become the NFL Network 2. They talk about football way more than any other sport especially in the offseason.
This is definitely not the reason lol.
In the era of YouTube, where there are 100,000 sports debate shows out there, there’s really no room for shows like ATH. You need a superstar to carry it or maintain something like that, which is what Pat and SAS are.
yseJ
Empire strikes back
pat isnt/wastnt a superstar. hes just an early adopter who hopped on early because he realized the power of podcasting and how it can replace network shows.
god shamgod
Veteran
Israel Gutierrez cryin real tears damn
Said today his sister bday and she passed last month and she consistently watched him on this show and he had his nephews(her sons)on here
Said today his sister bday and she passed last month and she consistently watched him on this show and he had his nephews(her sons)on here
