ESPN reportedly wanted to lure Skip Bayless back, but all that did was make the pundit an even richer man with Fox Sports.
Bayless has signed a four-year, $32 million deal to remain at Fox despite a similar offer from ESPN. Per Andrew Marchand of the New York Post, ESPN offered Bayless somewhere in the range of $26.5 million to $31 million as part of a planned reunion with former "First Take" partner Stephen A. Smith.
Bayless famously left ESPN back in 2016 when Fox Sports, as part of a new strategy targeting the kind of sports debate content that ESPN struck rich with, offered him a reported four-year, $24 million deal.