Weeks after letting go of on-air personalities like Jalen Rose and Mark Jackson, ESPN is reportedly “very interested” in bringing back one of the most prominent figures in sports radio — Colin Cowherd. According to Michael McCarthy of Front Office Sports, Cowherd is under contract with Fox Sports until 2025, but ESPN may look to bring him to pair with Pat McAfee as the face of the network’s radio lineup.
“Why wouldn’t ESPN go huge for Cowherd? He’d solve the ESPN Radio problem in one stroke,” one insider told McCarthy.
Neither ESPN nor Colin Cowherd has commented on McCarthy’s report, but First Take Host Stephen A. Smith has openly talked about recruiting another former Fox Sports star. In May, Super Bowl Champion Shannon Sharpe made the decision to leave FS1’s Undisputed and enter media free agency. Weeks later, Stephen A. Smith openly expressed an interest in having Sharpe join him at ESPN.
“We are definitely talking to Shannon Sharpe,” Smith said.
“The conversations are official, the reports have not been misnomers or misreports or anything like that. We are talking to him and I’m hopeful, very hopeful, very confident that ultimately we will be announcing sooner than later that he will be on First Take.”
