Fact Check: Is Skip Bayless Really Leaving Undisputed to Replace JJ Redick on LeBron James' Mind the Game Podcast? (2024)

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Fact Check: Is Skip Bayless Really Leaving Undisputed to Replace JJ Redick on LeBron James' Mind the Game Podcast? ›

Why is Skip Bayless leaving FS1's Undisputed? Definitely not to join LeBron James! The rumor that Bayless is replacing JJ Redick on LeBron James' podcast was spread by NBACentel on X, formerly Twitter. For those unaware, NBACentel is a parody account, playing off the name NBACentral.

“I think Bronny will be pretty good,” Bayless said on his pod this week. “I think he'll become a clutch three-point shooter. I've always gotten the feeling that Bronny had a bigger clutch gene than his father does. McDonald's [High School All-Star] Game he was in the spotlight.

Skip Bayless Announces 'Undisputed' Departure, Plans to Pursue New Opportunities. Skip Bayless—a longtime fixture on sports-centric debate shows—announced Friday that he is officially leaving FS1 to pursue other opportunities. Today was my last show on Undisputed.

Skip Bayless is leaving FS1 after eight years at the network. The long-time co-host of Undisputed will have his last show later this summer, according to the New York Post's Ryan Glasspiegel. This marks the second summer in a row that an Undisputed co-host will depart the network.

Fox Sports 1 will shake up its morning schedule following the exit of hot-talk host Skip Bayless, charting a new era in its bid to vie with Disney's ESPN. Two new shows, “Breakfast Ball” and “The Facility,” will anchor mornings on the cable network, starting in the fall.

"I don't know if people really understand Bronny," LeBron said in a recent interview with ESPN. "He doesn't care. I actually care a little bit. When I came in [as a rookie], I wanted people to like me, and some of the things that people were saying about me kind of bothered me early on in my career. ...

For some time in the NBA's early stages, a player had to finish a four-year college to enter the draft and join one of the NBA franchises. It wasn't until Reggie Harding in 1962 that a player skipped college and went straight from high school into the world's toughest basketball league.

On August 5, 2024, FS1 began showing reruns of The Herd with Colin Cowherd and First Things First in Undisputed's time slot with the fate of the show unknown. A week later, it was confirmed that Undisputed had been cancelled by FS1.

In 2022, Taft signed an extension at Fox Sports but left Skip and Shannon: Undisputed after going on maternity leave in February.

Bayless hosts with a rotating group of panelists that typically includes Keyshawn Johnson, Michael Irvin, Richard Sherman, Rachel Nichols and Paul Pierce.

Who is Skip married to? ›

Ernestine Sclafani

Skip Bayless / Spouse (m. 2016)

Bayless arrived with much fanfare at Fox Sports in 2016 following 12 years at ESPN and a prominent role on “First Take” alongside Stephen A Smith. While ESPN wanted to retain him, Fox Sports made a significantly larger offer and the host headed West in search of new bloviating fame.

Skip Bayless is ending his time at Fox Sports as the host of Undisputed confirms his exit from the show and the network. In a social media post today, Bayless shared that he had just completed his last FS1 show.

Fox Sports Radio & FS1 (2015-Present)

Following controversial statements regarding the level of intelligence needed to understand the game of baseball and the education level of players from countries like the Dominican Republic, The Herd pulled from ESPN Radio and ESPNU on July 24, 2015, as Cowherd exited the network.

LOS ANGELES — A pair of shows will take over the weekday morning timeslot on FS1 formerly occupied by Skip Bayless of “Undisputed.” Most of the time slot will be taken over by “The Facility,” which will feature former NFL players Emmanuel Acho, LeSean McCoy, James Jones and Chase Daniel.

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His father, John Sr., immediately began calling him Skip—his father also had called his mother "Skip", as in "skipper of the ship". The name instantly stuck, and Bayless was never called John by his parents, to the point that he eventually had his name legally changed to Skip.

Bayless' personal affairs are private, but he married Ernestine Sclafani in 2016. and the pair do not have children.

Bayless spent 12 years with ESPN before joining FOX Sports in 2016, but the Worldwide Leader is not interested in a reunion. “We are set with the current First Take rotation, and wish Skip the best on his future endeavors,” an ESPN spokesman said on Tuesday, via Front Office Sports.