Stephen Anthony Smith (born October 14, 1967) is an American sports TV personality, sports radio host, sports journalist and actor. Smith is a commentator on ESPN First Take, where he appeared with Max Kellerman and Molly Qerim. He also often appeared as an NBA analyst at SportsCenter . He is also an NBA analyst for ESPN on NBA Countdown and NBA broadcasts on ESPN. Smith previously hosted The Stephen A. Smith and Ryan Ruocco Show on ESPN Radio New York 98.7 FM. He now hosts "The Stephen A. Smith Show" on sports radio station Chris Russo: Mad Dog Sports Radio (SIRIUS XM Radio, channel 82) and is a featured columnist for ESPNNY.com, ESPN.com, and The Philadelphia Inquirer .
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Initial years
Smith was born in the Bronx district of New York City on October 14, 1967. He grew up in the Hollis section of Queens. Smith is the second youngest of six children. He has four older sisters and a younger brother named Basil, who died in a car accident in October 1992. He also has a half-brother on the side of his father. Smith's parents came from Saint Thomas, US Virgin Islands. His father runs a hardware store. Smith's white-skinned grandmother, while her other grandparents were black. Smith graduated from Thomas Edison High School in Queens.
After attending the Fashion Institute of Technology for one year, Smith received a basketball scholarship to study at Winston-Salem State University, a historic black university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. While in college, he played basketball under Hall of Fame coach Clarence Gaines. While still on the team, Smith writes columns for the university newspaper, The News Argus, on the grounds that Gaines should retire because of health problems. He is a member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity.
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Careers
Print media
Smith began his print media career with Winston-Salem Journal, Greensboro News and Record and New York Daily News.
Beginning in 1994, Smith has a position as a writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer . He began reporting on the Philadelphia 76ers as their NBA columnist, and finally, as a general sports columnist. On August 23, 2007, Inquirer announced that Smith would no longer write columns and would instead be relegated to the position of general assignment reporter. In 2008, the Radio
On April 11, 2005, Smith hosted a mid-day work day until 2pm. a radio show on WEPN in New York City with "his right hand B.T. (Brandon Tierney)". On September 20, 2007, the radio program was moved to 2pm. - 4 pm. slot, with a second clock broadcast nationwide on ESPN Radio, replacing The Dan Patrick Show (Mike Tirico taking over the first two hours). The show ended in April 2008 when Smith attempted to expand his career on television, and from 1 May Scott Van Pelt began hosting at 3-4 pm. the hour before Smith.
In November 2009, Smith became a live contributor to Fox Sports Radio, and was the one who broke the story of Allen Iverson's retirement on Chris Myers-Steve Hartman's afternoon show on November 25th. Iverson then ended his short retirement, - Join the Philadelphia 76ers on December 2nd.
Smith hosted Fox Sports Radio morning show on January 4, 2010, replacing host Washington-based, D.C. Steve Czaban. In his radio program, Smith predicted that LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh would sign all with the Miami Heat during free agent 2010. In early 2011, Smith became an insider FSR NBA citizen and ended his morning performance.
It was announced on February 1, 2011, that he would return to ESPN as a columnist for ESPN.com and host a local radio show on Sunday at 1050 ESPN Radio New York (WEPN-AM) at 7-9pm. ET and 710 ESPN Radio Los Angeles (KSPN-AM) at 6-8 pm. PT. April 24, 2012 is Smith's last event for LA 710 ESPN.
In 2013, Smith left ESPN for Sirius XM Radio, where he joined Chris Russo's Dog Crazy Sports Channel. The move was announced just one day after Smith made some controversial comments about ESPN 2's First Take Program on Ray Rice's situation.
On January 17, 2017, Smith will move from a Sirius XM Crazy Doggie channel back to ESPN. His two-hour daily program will be heard at WEPN in New York, KSPN in Los Angeles, EIFN Sirius XM channel, and through syndication.
Television
Smith began his television career on the dead CNN/SI cable network in 1999.
Smith is currently an analyst and talk show host on ESPN and ESPN First Take. In August 2005, he began hosting an hour-long show per day on ESPN called Quite Frankly with Stephen A. Smith . After the show was canceled in January 2007, he mainly concentrated on basketball, serving as an NBA analyst.
Smith is known for his provocative analysis and fast delivery. Smith has appeared on other ESPN shows as well, including the Dream Jobs reality series, and serves as a frequent guest (and guest host) at Pardon the Interruption , Jim Rome is Burning and as a participant on 1 and 10 . He has appeared as a newscaster on Sunday morning's edition of SportsCenter , but on April 17, 2009 announced on his website that he will leave ESPN on May 1, 2009. The Los Angeles Times reported that ESPN commented that, "We decided to move in a different direction." Although according to Big Lead Sports a source said that ESPN and Smith went to the negotiating table and could not reach an agreement. Since then, Smith has returned to ESPN.
It was announced April 30, 2012 in the air that Smith will be joining First Take, permanently, five days per week under a new format for an event called "Embracing Debate" in which he opposes long-off "First Take" commentator Skip Bayless.
On July 25, 2014, Smith made a controversial statement that women could provoke domestic abuse at the ESPN2 ESPN First Take event, in connection with the ongoing situation involving the Baltimore Ravens' running back Ray Rice and his wife. After criticism of the comments, including comments on Twitter from ESPN reporter Michelle Beadle, Smith apologized for his words in the segment recorded on ESPN. On July 29, 2014, Smith was suspended by ESPN for a week and did not show up on any of their programs again until August 6, 2014.
By the end of 2014, Smith signed a multi-year contract with ESPN that will pay him over $ 3 million per year.
In the March 9, 2015 episode of First Take, while discussing the topic of head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, Chip Kelly trades by running back LeSean McCoy to Buffalo Bills for linebacker Kiko Alonso, Smith says: "Kelly Chip has made decisions over the years that, dare I say, leaving some brothers feeling uncomfortable. "Michael David Smith of NBS Sports believes that Smith has hinted at Kelly's related list of broad release steps from wide receiver DeSean Jackson, McCoy's trades and letting wide receiver Jeremy Maclin leave for a free agent to sign a contract with Chief Kansas City, while keeping Riley Cooper's wide receiver in the Eagles list may be motivated races. In an interview with ESPN the Magazine published on May 8, 2015, McCoy admits that when he respects Kelly as head coach, he does not see it in person. McCoy also believes that some lists of names made by Kelly are racially motivated. Kelly says that the list of players he made has nothing to do with the race, it's about finding the right player that matches his team. Smith defended his comments by saying that he never used the word form of racism to imply that Kelly was a racist.
On June 11, 2015, Smith received criticism for comments he made about women footballers during the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup. While at SportsCenter, replays were shown from goals scored by Norway on a free kick against Germany. Legler's team showed that the German players who formed the wall turned around as the ball passed, and Smith joked that the players "may not want to mess up their hair". Smith's comments were criticized as a bad sexist and joke. ESPN said they were talking to Smith about the comment, and he later apologized in a series of tweets.
On November 5, 2016, Smith joined the Top Rank broadcasting team for Manny Pacquiao vs. Jessie Vargas boxing Pay-per-View event.
Acting career
Smith made his acting debut on ABC soap opera General Hospital in a cameo appearance as a television reporter on February 2, 2007, the episode. Later that same year, she was in the movie Chris Rock I Think I Love My Wife .
Starting in 2014, it has appeared in a series of natural Oberto beef commercials such as "Little Voice in Your Stomach," whenever it comes with sports figures, such as Seattle Seahawks cornerback star athlete Richard Sherman and pro snowboarder Louie Vito, and sports announcer Dick's famous basketball "Dickie V" Vitale. Smith returned to the General Hospital on April 1, 2016, even though at press time his role was unknown.
Movieography
Movies
Television
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Smith is known for his frequent use of the slogan while hosting First Take, especially when describing something completely unreasonable to him, "blasphemous." He also often refers to Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers as a "baaaaaaaad man" (with "A" stretched for a few seconds), and has been known to say many times that he does not know anything about hockey sports, such as by saying that the tie game is still in the sport (NHL removes the ties after the NHL lockout of 2004-05), though there are three hockey teams from within the New York metropolitan area where he grew up. He has also been known to show a strong hatred of Dallas Cowboys, often mocking them with "How 'Bout Them Cowboys?" slogans in a sarcastic way, and claim that they are "accidents waiting to happen". A song was even made about Smith's hatred towards Cowboys. Smith has been wearing Aaron Rodgers jersey on two separate occasions on First Take Out in 2017: after following the elimination of the Cowboys in the hands of the Packers, and once during a special recording of First Take from Dallas where Smith received ridicule from the audience directly.
References
External links
- Official website
- Stephen A. Smith on IMDb
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