Nah. "Woke" definitely pays. Remember her?
Former ESPN star Jemele Hill is moving into scripted television and has teamed with Gabrielle Union to develop a half-hour comedy series about Black women with financial independence. New Money, which is based on a story from Hill and The Undefeated journalist Kelley Carter, who run Lodge...
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And that's in addition to ANOTHER TV show she's hosting.
Anyway, this is likely what's in store for Lebatard. ESPN probably was holding him back financially to be honest. He'll probably get in the podcast game, scripted TV show, etc.
His interests clearly evolved beyond sports (I suspect his way too hot for him fiance has something to do with that). I just never got the feeling that he was the guy who I wanted to listen to about those topics (even when I agreed with most of what he was saying).