{"id":99596,"date":"2016-04-26T14:44:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T19:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=99596"},"modified":"2016-04-26T14:47:44","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T19:47:44","slug":"trico-bayless-leaving-espn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=99596","title":{"rendered":"Tirico, Bayless leaving ESPN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-99597\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Baylessskip-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Baylessskip\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Baylessskip.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Baylessskip-263x175.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) &#8211; Commentator Skip Bayless is leaving ESPN when his contract is up at the end of August.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-99598\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/TiricoMike.jpg\" alt=\"TiricoMike\" width=\"127\" height=\"85\" \/>The network announced the move Tuesday, a day after news broke that &#8220;Monday Night Football&#8221; play-by-play voice Mike Tirico is departing ESPN for NBC.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bayless could reunite at Fox with former ESPN executive Jamie Horowitz. He&#8217;s the latest prominent personality to leave in the past year as the network has looked to cut costs.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bayless joined ESPN in 2004 as a writer and TV commentator. He raised his profile trading inflammatory opinions with Stephen A. Smith on the daily studio show &#8220;First Take.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 His last appearance at &#8220;First Take&#8221; will be the day after the end of the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) &#8211; Commentator Skip Bayless is leaving ESPN when his contract is up at the end of August. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The network announced the move Tuesday, a day after news broke that &#8220;Monday Night Football&#8221; play-by-play voice Mike Tirico is departing ESPN for NBC. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bayless could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99600,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99596\/revisions\/99600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}