Is The End Near For ESPN's "The Six?"

Sports Illustrated ^ | 10/10/17 | Jimmy Traina

[jeannineinsd]

This is 100 percent pure speculation, but if I were a betting man, I'd say The Six, hosted by Jemele Hill and Michael Smith, will be gone from ESPN before the end of the year.

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First things first, despite what the lunatic in charge of our country tweets, one host who appears for an hour a day is not responsible for an entire network's ratings tanking. Yes, the ratings for The Six are down from that time slot last year when ESPN aired SportsCenter featuring Lindsay Czarniak. But let's put things in perspective and offer some context. Via Awful Announcing, in September, The Six was down 20 percent compared to the same week one year ago. Pardon The Interruption, which airs right before The Six, was down 17 percent. So ESPN's ratings slump is not all because of one show or one host. This holds true for any network. It's basic common sense, which I know is shunned in the Trump Era.

But at this point, is there really anything for ESPN or Hill and Smith to gain by continuing on with the show? It's clear Hill has no interest in "sticking to sports" and doesn't want to be muzzled when it comes to speaking out about what's going on in the country. ESPN obviously doesn't want the repeated headache of having to deal with the fallout from Hill's political opinions. It's clear many people -- fans, media members, elected officials -- have made Hill a target.

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The ironic thing is that Trump's attacks on Hill have made her a bigger hero to those who supported her from the first "white supremacist" dust up. If the end of The Six is indeed sooner than later, Hill will come out of it with many offers.

[Maverick68]

It’s really simple :Patriotic Americans that ACTUALLY make the country “happen” are generally very smart, hard-working people.
We bust our azz, play by the rules and generally go to CHURCH when we want someone to PREACH to us and go elsewhere when we want to be entertained.
I’ve known waiters at Chili’s that are smarter than ANYONE in the entertainment/sports industry and I would NOT put up with being lectured by them, so why in the HELL do these low-info morons think I give a DAMN about what they have to say?