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i'll watch anything without max kellerman twice. we've already seen kornheiser, a much better loudmouth, wipe the floor with him. why bring a boor like rome in to do it?
what about medvedenko?
i'll watch anything without max kellerman twice. we've already seen kornheiser, a much better loudmouth, wipe the floor with him. why bring a boor like rome in to do it?
Wonder if he will have guests? He can't stop talkin' long enough for anyone else to get a word in edgewise. Once someone comes on the show, they won't want to come back again for a repeat visit, that's for sure. He's worse than Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly put together (but he doesn't yell as much and I've never heard him say "SHUT UP!").
I'm glad Sean got the out of there.
I'm with Angel Luv... I'll probably tune in just to remind myself why I hate him and to about whatever nastiness he's making up about the Spurs. If we're going to v-bookie it, we need to v-bookie how often he says "My sources tell me..." and then says something that ends up being total crap.
I think we should have GTG's to watch so that we don't help Smith's ratings by watching on a bunch of individual televisions. = )
There isn't anything wrong with max kellerman, he was a good host, other than his yankee bias
no!!! I'd rather watch PBS!
ESPN puts these guys on because they spark something in people. Stephen A. and y V. are people either you hate or you love. I love y V., although he can be very annoying, he has an overall passion for what he talks about and he truely comes off as loving the game. Plus he does present to you information although it is masked with all his little sayings. Stephen A. on the other hand does not have a good passion, he just loves to yell at the screen to make things seem important to the viewer. Hey he sparked interest in this forum, so he must have some appeal, although it is bad, so ESPN puts him on. (I noticed him not giving the Spurs props on their victories but harped on why the Pistons lost, but he has given some credit for the Spurs winning. Maybe next year he will pay attention to them since they are defending champs.)
I would go along with a SAS show if they could just guaranty that he wouldn't be shown anywhere else on TV, except for his show. That way I'd know exactly when not to watch.
Oh Wow! Just what we need. Another sports talk show with a "know-it-all", east coast-biased, journalist.
BTW, did anyone notice how, after preaching to everyone who would listen, that the Pistons were going to beat the Spurs in the NBA finals, he was con iously absent from the post-game panel discussion after Game #7? He was there during the Game 7 pregame and somehow - he just vanished. I assume he didn't want confetti on his finely-tailored, Italian suit.
He made no bones about pulling against the Spurs because of his hatred for the Big Dog and his dislike for Rasho. As a journalist, shouldn't you set aside those personal biases and examine the games factual aspects?
I used to like the guy when he was on CNNSI. I can't stand him now. He's an overly-opinionated, pompous, arrogant, self-righteous, hip-hop wannabe, punk-ass, who can't see past his "big-city" biases to recognize the greatness that is the Spurs.
Somehow should ask him how his hometown Knicks are doing over the past 30 years and under Isaiah Thomas' watch?
He and his new show can go to .
Steven A is NO "journalist". He's a buffoon in a sports commentator's suit.
I heard Charles Barkley too will have a new show coming out and my sources are telling me that at the end of the day his first guest will be none other that SAS himself.
I'll watch as long as Steven A throws in one of his blatant race-baiting themes every 5 minutes, and has analysts Fred Carter and Greg Anthony to debate NBA matters
No.
Can't they just re-run the national spelling bee instead? I for one will not be watching.
I know all about why he hates Big Dog (and if I was a Sixers fan I could see why some would have an axe to grind) but why the hate for Rasho? Did Nesterovic steal his woman or something? Or does Stephen A. just hate him because Rasho would probably make a better analyst than him?
And why should he like either one?He hates the Spurs and the city of San Antonio.
Why does everyone get so upset that the media doesn't pay attention to the Spurs?
Get over it. The Spurs will never get the attention the Lakers and Bulls did during their le Runs.
I didn't say he should or shouldn't. I was just explaining to the Piston fans why some Spurs fans don't like him. I don't like him for different reasons -- his basketball analysis is horrible and he's too loud for my taste.And why should he like either one?
The Spurs will never be "america's team", but they are already the "world's team", which is even better in my opinion.
Just a little bit...and he's too loud for my taste.
I guess he hates Big Dog because he doesn't have enough "street cred" for Steven A...If his beef was that Robinson was stealing money from the Sixers and not playing to his full potential, where was his ranting and screaming about Vince Carter's final years in Toronto? Oh yeah, Carter's one of his "boys"I know all about why he hates Big Dog (and if I was a Sixers fan I could see why some would have an axe to grind)
If Charles Barkely got a show that would be awesome, i would definitly watch that.
The only show I'd watch w/SAS is a next version of Celebrity Boxing. Where SAS gets the kicked out of him by Tonya Harding.
Let's see how "street" he really is
Stephen A. seems in his element
By Don Steinberg
Inquirer Staff Writer
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/sports/12264880.htm
The big news Thursday at Madison Square Garden was that the New York Knicks named Larry Brown their coach. The time and place couldn't have been any better for Stephen A. Smith - Inquirer columnist and more - who will host his own national sports talk show starting tomorrow.
Quite Frankly will air at 6:30 p.m. five days a week on ESPN2, from a studio built for Smith across the street from the Garden.
Brown, a longtime Smith mentor and inside informant, would be a fine first-week guest to get on tape. So Smith interviewed Brown for his ESPN Radio show, which he does every weekday from an office at the Garden, and Brown planned to come by Smith's TV studio later that afternoon.
After the radio show, print and TV reporters clustered around the other guy with an amazing new job, pressing him for details, looking on with envy. That man was Stephen A. Smith.
What will the TV show be like, they asked?
"I hate using it, but the closest thing to it is an Oprah, a Larry King," he explained.
Will you keep doing your newspaper column, and radio, and TV? Seems like it. Smith had no problem crossing the street every afternoon to do television after his radio show, he said, and the money wasn't bad either. (Sports Illustrated says he's making about $800,000 a year combined, and privately he says that's not too far off.)
It's all happening for Smith, who has blazed through the talent pool at ESPN, boosting ratings for shows like NBA Shootaround and drawing ire for his y style.
"Stephen A. is a lightning rod," says Mark Shapiro, head of programming and production at ESPN. "Love him or hate him, he draws an audience. The secret to Stephen is he has no fears. He always has an opinion, and fortunately his opinion is based on fact and experience. He has a Rolodex like no other, he is constantly on the fly. His job is his life."
Last summer, Smith recalls, he was in Athens covering the Olympics for the newspaper, "sitting in Sbarro's eating a slice of pizza with broccoli and carrots, and a beep came over my Blackberry. It was from Mark Shapiro, and it was one line: 'I think it's time for you to have your own show.' "
"I never dreamed in my wildest dreams that I would have my own show," Smith says. "But if you look at the paucity of African Americans that have an opportunity like this, you can't run away from this challenge."
It is easy to misinterpret Smith. Yes, he is self-absorbed, which may be forgivable at the moment. The 37-year-old bachelor also has a softer side. When in New York, he stays some nights in a midtown luxury hotel, some at his mother's house in Queens. In the newspaper office, he's often on the phone with callers asking him to speak to this or that community group - to children, senior citizens, black groups, Jewish groups - and he bends not to avoid the commitments but make them.
Sports Illustrated claims millions of people hate him, that he "desires your contempt."
"I don't want to be hated," he says. "But at least hate me for the right reasons. Black folks know who I am. They may have a problem with my opinions. They don't have a problem with me."
Sitting in his ESPN2 office, only after being prompted, will he describe the death threats. Last year, he opened an e-mail and "there was a chat room with people talking about how they were going to kill me."
In public spaces around the studio, he walks accompanied by a security guard.
"I don't mind being called names," he says, "but when you say, 'You better not come outside,' that you'll be waiting for me, when you send me a letter in the mail, and it's a black man on all fours with a chain around his neck, and there's a white man holding the chain with a shotgun in the other hand pointing it at your head, I would qualify that as a threat."
Then his assistant interrupts and he says: "OK. I have to take this call."
At a production meeting before the Brown interview, there is disagreement. Smith says it's a day of celebration for the coach; it shouldn't be all about bashing Brown for leaving so many teams. The producers want to assemble a video montage in which Brown earnestly claims he never wants to leave each team he eventually left.
"I love it," says Mike McQuade, one of ESPN's top producers, whom Smith asked to be Quite Frankly's senior producer after their work together on NBA Shootaround.
"Love it come NBA Shootaround time, when [Brown] won't return my calls," Smith says.
The hour-long interview format is a challenge for Smith. He's used to talking in 30-second explosions, in which anchors cue it up and let him rip. Now he's setting the table for his guests, in a format he wants to be compelling but not an attack show.
When Brown mentions that the Detroit Pistons "wanted to go another way" with their head coaching position, Smith doesn't immediately ask what that means. McQuade tells Smith in his earpiece to jump on that - viewers will wonder why Stephen A. is holding back.
"This is a new thing for me," Smith admits off camera. "Larry Brown knows I will ask him anything. He also knows I won't ambush him."
Later that night, after cranking up his rapid-fire bravado in quick segments for SportsCenter and ESPNews, Smith is at the hotel, getting ready to drive himself back to his New Jersey home.
"Stephen A., you're the best in the business!" a fan yells. Smith says thanks. Another guy takes a second look says, "Quite Frankly!" It seems like innocuous admiration, but Smith doesn't acknowledge it.
"I just ignore that. Be polite, call someone by their name," he says. "I'm not going to be defined by the show."
"The fact is," he says, "TV is a very volatile business. I could come here and do the best job that I could possibly do, every single day of the week. It could be the best show on Earth. And if people are not watching, then I don't get to keep this job. At the end of the day, it is a popularity contest. If you know anything about me, I'm not very good with popularity contests."
I want to go there to be in the audience
throw a rotten apple at him and kick his ass!
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