Skip Bayless and Stephen A. Smith were this close to a television reunion. The legendary sports commentators, who worked together on ESPN’s “First Take” from the mid-200s until 2016 when Bayless departed for Fox Sports, nearly rejoined forces at the World Wide Leader.

Bayless stated that he had no role in Sharpe's exit, a point refuted by Front Office Sports' Michael McCarthy, who cited sources that "Bayless made it clear to Fox management in L