Riley Gaines is putting ESPN on blast after the network fired Sam Ponder.
Ponder was ESPN’s lead NFL studio host and the anchor of NFL Sunday Countdown. The network claims she was let go due to budget cuts, but given that the NFL regular season is only three weeks away, the timing raised some eyebrows. Not to mention the fact that Ponder hasn’t always toed the company line on political issues.
So on her Gaines for Girls podcast – new episodes drop every Wednesday on OutKick – Riley is calling BS.
“They said this was for budget cuts,” Gaines said. “But it should be no surprise that Sam Ponder was the only current employee — the only current female employee — at ESPN who was willing to publicly declare that men do not belong in women’s sports.” […]
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