Goodbye Stephen A. Smith. Hello Blissful Silence

Goodbye Stephen A. Smith. Hello Blissful Silence.

Sports blog The Big Lead has given us all an early Christmas present by reporting on the imminent departure of ESPN basketball analyst Stephen A. Smith, a man who has come to be nearly as despised as hemorrhoids thanks to his bombastic, catch-phrase ridden on-air style and bootlicking tendencies. “Screamin’ A.,” The Big Lead points out, was once one of the hottest commodities on the World-Wide Leader, even landing his own talk-show, but in recent months has been eclipsed as a hoops reporter by such comparatively muted personalities as J.A. Adande and Tim Legler. Evidently, the people at ESPN came to be as annoyed by Smith’s hypey, ass-kissing, “the louder I say it the more right I’ll seem” approach to dissecting roundball as most in the viewing audience. Or perhaps whatever contract Smith signed with Satan to become so famous in the first place has simply run out. Either way, ESPN basketball coverage will soon be a lot less irritating. Now if we could just do something about.