Colin Cowherd was originally scheduled to leave ESPN next Friday as he makes his move over to Fox. After making some ridiculous and unfounded comments during a rant about how baseball isn’t a “complex” sport and using the fact that there are players from the Dominican as proof, ESPN announced earlier today that Cowherd will not return to the network next week as was originally planned.
You can watch his full comments in the video below.
A source tells SBJ that Colin Cowherd’s last day was supposed to be next Friday. The current scandal made ESPN move the date up to today.
— John Ourand (@Ourand_SBJ) July 24, 2015
Colin Cowherd’s comments over the past two days do not reflect the values of ESPN or our employees. Colin will no longer appear on ESPN.
— Mike Soltys (@espnmikes) July 24, 2015
This is absolutely the right decision by ESPN. Cowherd’s remarks were extremely offensive and his apology missed the mark entirely. There’s no doubt Fox is kicking themselves right now.