If you’re unaware, OutKick broke the news that the "Worldwide Leader in Sports" was going to let go of Ryan Clark on Monday, though our reporter Bobby Burack was made aware of the move on Friday.When Burack and fellow reporter Dan Zaksheske reached out to ESPN in the afternoon to tell them they were going to break the story within the hour, ESPN panicked.
What they did next is under scrutiny.They used that hour to pull Ryan Clark off air during a commercial break, and pitched the story to The Athletic, so they could break it before we did.
Since then, Jemele Hill has tried to slander OutKick and Burack.Le Batard is now jumping on that slanderous bandwagon while providing a race-focused take that may have inadvertently been the most Ryan Clark thing he could have said.Dan Le Batard arrives at Shaq's Fun House at Mana Wynwood Convention Center on January 31, 2020 in Miami, Florida.
(Jason Koerner/Getty Images)"Disney and ESPN somehow keep getting called too woke," Le Batard said."All the journalists are out the door now.
All of the Black people, or almost all of the Black people who were actually going to say things that Black people agree with strongly, all of them are gone too.You’re gonna have trouble finding Hispanics, you’re gonna have a network run by McAfee and all of the White people now in charge there."ESPN PARTING WAYS WITH NFL ANALYST RYAN CLARK AHEAD OF NETWORK'S FIRST SUPER BOWL BROADCASTThere it is! The race card has been pulled.
Classic Le Batard.Remember the unwritten rule for liberal sports personalities, just like Ryan Clark: If you don't have a proper argument or anything truly intelligent to say, make it about race.Le Batard then turned his attention to OutKick."It's fairly shocking to see Ryan Clark let go in that fashion," Le Batard stated.
"To embarrass a proud Black man at the end because an institution covered in s--t stains does the reporting.Someone leaks the information to an institution covered in s--t stains that is a perpet...