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Skip Bayless leaving FOX Sports’ Undisputed this summer, per reports

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July 18, 2024

TV sports commentator Skip Bayless debuted on FS1's

Sports activities speak character Skip Bayless is leaving FS1’s “Undisputed” later this summer time, in keeping with a number of stories.

Bayless has been with FOX Sports activities for eight years, becoming a member of the community in 2016 after a 12-year run at ESPN.

The New York Put up was the primary to report the information.

FOX Sports activities didn’t instantly reply to USA TODAY Sports activities’ request for remark.

This may be the second consecutive summer time during which the present had one in every of its key hosts depart. In June 2023, Professional Soccer Corridor of Famer Shannon Sharpe left the present after working alongside Bayless for the reason that present’s inception in 2016. Sharpe then moved on to ESPN’s “First Take,” becoming a member of one other well-known sports activities speak character, Stephen A. Smith. Sharpe lately signed a multiyear contract extension with ESPN.

With Sharpe now not with the present, former NFL gamers Michael Irvin, Keyshawn Johnson and Richard Sherman, in addition to NBA legend Paul Pierce, stuffed the void on “Undisputed” alongside Bayless.

The 72-year-old Bayless began his media profession within the mid-Nineteen Seventies overlaying sports activities for newspapers such because the Miami Herald, Los Angeles Occasions and Dallas Morning Information.

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