I thought you denizens of the sports forum might be interested in this

[cali]

or not, but here:

Skip Bayless, ESPN2 “First Take” co-host, may be the most hated man in sports

The Chinese food deliveryman lights up when he sees Skip Bayless answer the door. “I thought it was you,” he says with a smile, handing over dinner.

Bayless is a regular customer. At his core, he’s a man of routine, and at the beginning of each week, he orders five days’ worth of chicken and broccoli (no sauce), his nightly dinners. Every weekend he stops by the same Manhattan deli and buys five sandwiches to bring back to his weekday home in Connecticut, his daily lunch. He’s a health nut who exercises twice a day. Every Sunday morning is church, every Friday is date night and every evening in between is the same: chicken and broccoli — and sports.

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“Ryan Mallett is terrible,” he says at one point. “That was a terrible throw. Tim Tebow is going to be the backup quarterback for the New England Patriots before all of this is over.”

Bayless just may be the most polarizing figure in sports today. The co-host of ESPN’s “First Take,” Bayless epitomizes the superheated, highly lucrative world of sports-talk television. It is a nascent arena that rewards shock and awe more than considered judgment, and Bayless is perfectly suited for it.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/skip-bayless-espn2-first-take-co-host-may-be-the-most-hated-man-in-sports/2013/09/13/c001a7c2-170a-11e3-804b-d3a1a3a18f2c_story.html

[KamaAina]

1. No sauce?!

[RockaFowler]

2. What about Stephen A?? No Love for him

I think Skip says some strange things, but has anyone listened to the rmblings of Stephen A?? The whole show is bad. I feel bad for Cari Champion. She deserves better than that!!

[joeybee12]

5. They're all pretty awful as ESPN...the nicest I can say about some is

that they're medicore.

[trumad]

3. The errr sports celeb who is wrong about everything..

and I mean everything.

[madinmaryland]

4. Yeah. He makes Jim Rome and Colin Cowherd look like a geniuses!

[fishwax]

6. Skip is clueless. I like his brother, though

[bluedigger]

7. Skip is good entertainment.

The format is to debate topics. Skip debates dumb positions with vigor.