Showing 46 - 59 of 59 articles tagged "Jemele Hill"

• Posted Monday 10/23/17 at 7:10AM EDT

  Jemele Hill returns to ESPN Monday, says she deserved her two-week suspension

  “I put ESPN in a bad spot,’ the SportsCenter anchor told TMZ in an impromptu conversation.

• Posted Friday 10/13/17 at 11:28PM EDT

  Bill Simmons on Jemele Hill's suspension: “ESPN has contradicted itself way too many times”

  Simmons, the former ESPN personality whom the sports network has also suspended (multiple times), says the sports network has been...

• Posted Thursday 10/12/17 at 2:11PM EDT

  ESPN’s Jemele Hill will continue to be paid during her two-week suspension

  ESPN oral history author James Andrew Miller tweeted that Hill's suspension is with pay.

• Posted Wednesday 10/11/17 at 2:10PM EDT

  Jemele Hill’s SC6 is actually up in key demo

  President Trump tweeted Tuesday morning that ESPN’s ratings have tanked with Hill.

• Posted Tuesday 10/10/17 at 5:55PM EDT

  Michael Smith will anchor ESPN’s 6 p.m. SportsCenter alone during Jemele Hill's suspension

  Smith will go solo for the first time since SC6, as the flagship 6 p.

• Posted Tuesday 10/10/17 at 1:25PM EDT

  President Trump sends an early morning tweet attacking Jemele Hill and blaming her for ESPN’s ratings woes

  “With Jemele Hill at the mike, it is no wonder ESPN ratings have ‘tanked,’ in fact, tanked so badly it...

• Posted Monday 10/09/17 at 10:47PM EDT

  Jemele Hill’s SportsCenter co-host, Michael Smith, opts to sit out tonight’s show

  When ESPN allegedly tried to keep Hill off the air last month after the White House reacted to her Trump...

• Posted Monday 10/09/17 at 3:47PM EDT

  ESPN suspends Jemele Hill for two weeks after she suggested fans boycott Dallas Cowboys sponsors

  The SportsCenter anchor was given a warning after tweeting last month that Donald Trump is a white supremacist.

• Posted Wednesday 9/27/17 at 3:06PM EDT

  ESPN’s Jemele Hill regrets that her Trump Twitter criticism made headlines, but doesn’t regret what she said

  Hill, writing for ESPN’s The Undefeated, described the past two weeks: “Twitter wasn’t the place to vent my frustrations because,...

• Posted Friday 9/15/17 at 3:31PM EDT

  Trump urges ESPN to “apologize for untruth” in wake of Jemele Hill calling him a white supremacist

  Trump tweeted early this morning, “ESPN is paying a really big price for its politics (and bad programming).

• Posted Friday 9/15/17 at 2:29AM EDT

  Report: ESPN tried to keep Jemele Hill off SportsCenter Wednesday, even going so far as asking a black anchor sub for her

  According to Think Progress, Hill’s co-host refused to go with the plan, and ESPN scrapped the idea and asked her...

• Posted Thursday 9/14/17 at 2:43PM EDT

  ESPN accepts Jemele Hill’s apology after she addresses the “elephant in the room”

  “My comments on Twitter expressed my personal beliefs,” she said in a statement posted on Twitter.

• Posted Wednesday 9/13/17 at 10:02PM EDT

  White House calls ESPN anchor's anti-Trump comments a “fireable offense”

  Asked about Jemele Hill's tweet calling President Trump “a bigot,”  White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called it   “one of the...

• Posted Tuesday 9/12/17 at 10:47PM EDT

  ESPN scolds host for calling President Trump a “white supremacist” on Twitter

  Jemele Hill, co-host of the 6pm SportsCenter, tweeted on Monday that “Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely...