Ex-ESPNers John Skipper, Dan Le Batard Teaming on Left-Leaning Sports Media Venture – By Evan Bleier (Inside Hook) / January 13 2021
The progressive venture is thought to be the strategic opposite of Clay Travis’s Outkick
Former ESPN president John Skipper and recently departed on-air personality Dan Le Batard are teaming up on a politically progressive sports media company, sources told Front Office Sports.
Described as the strategic opposite of Clay Travis’s Outkick, which just lost former FS1 host Jason Whitlock, the new venture will create original content for TV, radio and streaming as well as produce films and documentaries. Theoretically, if the venture is the direct opposite of Outkick, it will also include a website and e-newsletter.
Skipper and Le Batard are looking to hire both on- and off-camera talent for their unnamed venture and their target list includes former ESPN colleagues Jemele Hill, Bomani Jones and Kate Fagan.
Hill, who now writes for The Atlantic, confirmed she has been approached about the project but has yet to work out an agreement to come aboard. Even if she doesnt, Hill expects the new venture to be a success, according to FOS.
