ESPN’s Dan LeBatard is mad as hell – and he’s not gonna take it anymore!
The self-proclaimed World Leader in Sports has been cowering in a corner when it comes to Donald Trump ever since his inauguration. The network maintains that its viewers don’t want politics mixed in with their sports coverage. Acclaimed sports analyst Jemele Hill worked for ESPN for many years, but when she called Donald Trump a white supremacist on her Twitter feed, the network suspended her and asked her to stick to sports from now on. As Trump’s racist rhetoric became more volatile, Hill told ESPN that she could no longer contain her outrage and she left the network.
Now Dan LeBatard is calling out his own network for what he calls its “cowardly” no politics position:
Please listen to what he had to say. His words regarding sports and social activism are spot on.