ESPN’s Jemele Hill on Hosting SportsCenter and Dealing With the Haters

ESPN’s Jemele Hill on Hosting SportsCenter and Dealing With the Haters

ESPN’s Jemele Hill on Hosting SportsCenter and Dealing With the Haters

This week’s Edge of Sports podcast, with March Madness, women’s hockey, and Kaepernick Watch.

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The co-host of ESPN’s 6 pm SportsCenter show, Jemele Hill, joins us to talk about how she and her fellow host Michael Smith are reshaping the sports institution—with a little bit of help from Biggie Smalls, and amplified by growing up in Detroit.

I also have some “choice words” about the NCAA tournament, a Just Stand Up award to the women of USA hockey, and a shocking Just Sit Down award to one of our favorites. We also have a new Kaepernick Watch and merch news!

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