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It’s been around three months since Skip Bayless recorded his final episode of Undisputed to bring his time at Fs1 to an end, and the veteran Hot Take Artist has shed some light on what he has in the works as he prepares to enter yet another new era.
At this point, I don’t think many people would blame Skip Bayless for entering a well-earned retirement.
The 72-year-old has been a respected name in the sports media space since the 1970s, and it’s become increasingly clear he’s lost the fastball that helped him become a national name thanks to a television career that really took off when he started appearing on ESPN in the early 2000s.
With that said, it seems like Bayless is the kind of guy who needs to have the “LeBron vs. Jordan” debate on a major platform on a weekly basis like the rest of us need air to breathe, and he hinted he has something in the works after wrapping up a seven-year run at FS1 over the summer—an exit he’s implied was his decision despite some abysmal ratings in the wake of Shannon Sharpe’s Undisputed departure that would suggest otherwise.
Now, we have some more insight into those plans courtesy of a piece in The Washington Post where he discussed what he has in the works.
Bayless previously said he was working on what will presumably be a tell-all book about his time with ESPN and FS1 while also shopping a supposedly controversial screenplay (which the article says is “centered on a LeBron James-like character”), but it sounds like he’s also planning on returning to the format that really made him famous:
He wants to create a digital network for a YouTube channel. He’s already got his weekly solo show, but he is planning to add an interview show and a debate show. He said he’s considering five or six different debate partners, though he declined to name names.
I guess we’ll just have to wait and see how that works out for him.