Sports social media was a sad place on Wednesday as the names of ESPN reporters who had been laid off in a massive staff cut slowly trickled out.
Ed Werner
Jim Bowden
Andy Katz
The list goes on for about 100 more names of online, on-air and team reporters, many with a decade or more working for ESPN. It was very disheartening to see many of the names I’ve looked to for sports coverage for years suddenly be without a job.
And yet, Stephen A. Smith and his $3.5 million a year salary is still there.