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Sparking debate: Inside FS1's plan to woo Skip Bayless, beat ESPN at own game

NEW YORK — Fox Sports boss Jamie Horowitz wants to embrace debate to jumpstart the FS1 and FS2 cable channels, and he's interested in hiring the most polarizing sports personality of all to do it — ESPN's Skip Bayless.

The president of Fox Sports National Networks told Sporting News he wants to make a hard shift toward opinion and personalities on the network's sports studio shows — away from news and highlights.

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Shows like ESPN's "SportsCenter" are dinosaurs, Horowitz said.