However, one can't help but wonder how dedicated ESPN is to serving fans and focusing on sports following a recent announcement.Last week, the company announced it had re-signed David Dennis Jr.The network says Dennis will now cover the "NBA, music, and black culture" across Andscape and ESPN television shows.ZERO BS.
JUST DAKICH.TAKE THE DON'T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD.
DOWNLOAD NOW!The obvious first question is why, in 2026, ESPN would pay someone to cover music and black culture on television.However, more pressing is the message that ESPN just sent to its employees.EXCLUSIVE: COLIN COWHERD EXPLAINS WHY HE STUCK TO SPORTS AS ESPN BECAME 'RUDDERLESS' DURING TRUMP'S PRESIDENCYThe network is reportedly considering mass layoffs this year following its acquisition of NFL Network.
Undoubtedly, those cuts would affect talented and hardworking people both on air and behind the scenes.Yet while employees face losing their jobs, ESPN has chosen to reinvest in Dennis, a character who has spent much of the past few years embarrassing the network.If the name sounds familiar, you might remember that during the Sydney Sweeney-American Eagle "scandal," Dennis declared that the ad left him, wait for it, "mortified.""I didn't think anything of the Sydney Sweeney ads.
But then ACTUAL SCHOLARS ON MESSAGING, EUGENICS AND FASCISM explained what was going on then yes I understood and became pretty mortified because hey sometimes IT'S GOOD TO LISTEN TO EXPERTS," he posted on Bluesky.Just the type of person American sports fans want to hear from: someone who finds pretty blonde women mortifying.Sydney Sweeney poses for a portrait backstage during the 2026 Stagecoach Festival at Empire Polo Club in Indio, Calif., on April 25, 2026.(Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)ESPN WRITERS TRY TO MAKE WRESTLEMANIA ALL ABOUT RACE, CALLS EVENT "BLACKEST OF ALL TIME"It's not just that Dennis is a trying-too-hard dork.
He's also, like most race idolaters, remarkably hypocritical.Hours after Hulk Hogan's ...