The most transparently absurd sports presence on TV remains the lead face and voice of the transparently absurd sports network:
Stephen A. Smith, hustler of multiple cultural accents to best serve the day’s perceived audience and his sustained ESPN go-to-guy employment.
Blessed with both ESPN impunity and immunity in addition to millions in pay and endorsements, Smith, reportedly nearing a new $120 million contract, has regularly made loud news and noises to become a steady bad nationally televised joke. He specializes in bombast sans credibility. Like a rendering plant, he emits thick smoke, but no fire, just a stench.
No one in such a media position has been more consistently and insistently wrong than bad guesswork Smith. In spite of his frequent burdened black man hustles, it’s impossible to believe that race hasn’t fueled his rise to the top of ESPN’s junk heap while sustaining and growing his presence as a keepin’-it-real street-dude blowhard.
