Espn First catch Host Stephen A. Smith tackled Shannon Sharpe’s decision and ESPN so that the former NFL star take a break from the Daily Sports opinion after having faced rape allegations in a trial.
Sharpe, who denied the allegations, said that he would temporarily withdraw from his ESPN functions to meet the trial, adding that he hoped to come back in time for the NFL season.
Smith, during his YouTube program, tackled Sharpe’s allegations and decision to move away for the first time, highlighting his personal friendship with the analyst and Shay Shay club host.
“Do I think Shannon Sharpe is guilty of what he was accused” absolutely not. This is my personal opinion, “said Smith.” The brother I am getting to know, I do not believe that assault or violence, and I will categorically say, but just as categorically, I will remind everyone that it is my opinion, because of what I feel for him, and not in any way involving that I know a fucking thing beyond, because I don’t know. “
“I will always be there for him if he needs me. In the same way that I said about Skip Bayless when he started from Fox, in the same way I would say on one of my friends,” added Smith. “This is what friends do, even in the most difficult moments, sometimes especially the most difficult, they do not tell you that you are right all the time, and hell, sometimes they do not prevent you from falling into this abyss, but they are there to lift you when no one else will.”
Smith added that he understood why Sharpe had to go back from his role as ESPN.
“It was a difficult week from the point of view of the sports media, certainly with regard to First catchShannon Sharpe became a friend when I recruited him to get on board on ESPN First catchHe came on board, and he did a sensational job … He helped bring it to another level last year, and we were doing our thing this year too, “said Smith.” And so when the news fell that he and Espn had mutually agreed that he would need to make me a personly blow, because I will miss, but it was not a blow on the series,
“I have been in Disney since October 2003. I know this place. I know the world leader who is ESPN,” added Smith, noting that he had taken a two -year break from ESPN from 2009. “They did not need final evidence at this particular moment about all this, once the lawyer for Shannon Sharpe did not want to be associated. was not something Disney was going to take.
And Smith has finished his segment hoping that Sharpe would return to television.
“That’s all I have to say, apart from I hope he will be back in this company very soon on linear television speaking of football, because this man knows his football,” said Smith. “And he certainly knows how to entertain us while he is talking about football. He will miss it.”
