Comments on: The Skip Bayless Interview Part I: Colorful, Conscious and Of Course, Controversial

By: LeBron James, Rajon Rondo, And The Most Important People In The NBA | The Starting Five

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 09:01:15 +0000

[...] But worse than the tangible things, the intangibles are troubling. I don’t mean to go all Skip Bayless on you here, but let me ask you this seriously: Have you ever watched LeBron in a close postseason [...]

By: Troy Aikman Is Less Than Thrilled With Skip Bayless Over Those Old Rumors That He’s Gay | SPORTSNEWS72

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:57:15 +0000

[...] Dallas Cowboys, Skip Bayless mentioned rumors that Troy Aikman might be gay. Years later, Bayless stood by including those rumors in his book. And now a couple years after that, Aikman’s talking about those rumors. And if [...]

By: Miami Scorches The Respected Boston Celtics And Put Heat Haters On "Suicide Watch" | The Starting Five

Thu, 12 May 2011 15:53:08 +0000

[...] James Love Made…scrutiny beckoning for every missed shot. 1-15, 1-16, 1-17, 1-18…1-19. Skip Bayless became the main anti-LeBron voice leading the charge. Perk and Lil Nate are traded? WHAT?!?! Melo [...]

By: The Starting Five Jalen Rose Interview: The Fab Five Were Five Times The American Dream Part 1 | The Starting Five

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:25:24 +0000

[...] Clear up the ambiguity of your Uncle Tom comment made in the ESPN documentary on the Fab Five. When Skip asked you to clarify folks are still saying you weren’t clear in your [...]

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aatokir — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 04:17:29 +0000

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By: Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers: A Game 1 Retrospective | The Starting Five

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:49:37 +0000

[...] An interview with Skip Bayless will be posted when he gets back from vacation. I didn’t want to post it while he wasn’t on First Take. Any thoughts?Trust me, it’s sicker than ya average (Skip’s int.). [...]

By: The Skip Bayless Interview Part II: Colorful, Conscious and Of Course, Controversial | The Starting Five

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:51:07 +0000

[...] Bonds, Michael Phelps, Donovan McNabb, LeBron James, Alex Rodriguez and of course Terrell Owens. Part I blew up over the Internet unlike any piece drawn from TSF. Many sites linked to the interview [...]

By: Skip Bayless Interview Part II Will Be Posted March 9th | The Starting Five

Skip Bayless Interview Part II Will Be Posted March 9th | The Starting Five — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:32:08 +0000

[...] before 9. This part needed it’s own context so that’s the reason for the delay. The first shot across the web mainly because of some controversial content regarding Troy Aikman and the [...]

By: Terrell Owens: Village Idiot or Village Scapegoat? « Temple3

Terrell Owens: Village Idiot or Village Scapegoat? « Temple3 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:10:17 +0000

[...] Jerry Jones’ principal focus is not on winning games. A significant portion of his attention is on keeping the Dallas Cowboys relevant as a media/marketing entity. The Dallas Cowboys have not won a playoff game since 1996, and they remain at the top of the 24-hour news cycle because of high profile signings, soap opera-style drama, and their history of winning. The Cowboys will be opening a new stadium next year and football remains a business. Jerry Jones’ principal focus is on the business of football. When it comes to winning games, Jerry Jones is as preoccupied with being perceived as a genius as anything else. He is still fighting the ghost of Jimmy Johnson and as he punches air, he begins to look more and more like Don Quixote every day. [...]

By: MODI

MODI — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:35:07 +0000

Thanks for that Rhoden article! Very sad though

By: TheScore.com Blog - The Score

TheScore.com Blog - The Score — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:49:48 +0000

[...] Announcing points us to an interview that The Starting Five scored with Skip Bayless, who authored a book on the 90s Dallas Cowboys that "challenged Troy [...]

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:25:19 +0000

I have never liked Skip. All of his columns have a recurring theme: Find an alleged sore spot or weak spot in someone and then pick at that until it generates pain and controversy. The more pain and controversy, the better.
He had a failed radio show in Dallas and he onced offered on that show that both of his parents were alcoholics and life was hard at home. I’ve thought that his unrelenting rancor and ego trip grew out of that beginning.
Some of his colums were interesting, but most seemed mean spirited. Two good ones that I remember to this day( and I think he would also) are one about the ” back side” of the horse track and ” Why Dallas should not get the World Cup.”
But, on his best day, he was NEVER better than Blackie Sherrod.

By: Temple3

Temple3 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:40:11 +0000

OK:

I don’t believe anyone has said that about Bayless here — yet. I think you’re on to something, though.

The problem is the paradigm — and what missing may be his objection to the very setting of the question. His employer’s business model is not contingent on making moral judgments on athletes like Phelps. There is no money in that sort of thing, usually. But, there is all manner of loot to clock by routinely revisiting the case of Bonds or Vick or Owens — so they do it over and over and over and over and over again.

Maybe his apparent appetite is equated with a bit of negro bloodlust, when its really just an unmitigated desire to get it on — with anyone and everyone about anything and everything.

By: OK Computer

OK Computer — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:27:19 +0000

Can someone please explain to me where Bayless gets the reputation of being a racist? He seems the opposite to me: a straight enough shooter to call an idiot an idiot whether that idiot happens to be white (Michael Phelps) or black (Michael Vick). It should be pretty clear to anyone who has watched more than fifteen minutes of sports that no skin color has a monopoly on idiocy.
Maybe this sort of western egalitarianism just doesn’t fly on the coasts.

When I was watching ESPN the other day, Stephen A. went out of his way to praise Bayless as one of the most fair-minded people in journalism for his work in getting African American voices on television. I don’t know why people equate bluster and a degree of arrogance with racism, but in this case, unless somebody shows some evidence, let’s give it a rest.

By: michelle

michelle — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:49:03 +0000

In reading the comments I noticed I spelled knew wrong. LOL!