Stephen A.Smith: Last News

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Shailene Woodley has got Aaron Rodgers’ back.

Standing by her man. Shailene Woodley showed support for Aaron Rodgers amid drama with his football team, the Green Bay Packers.

Shailene Woodley is supporting her fiance Aaron Rodgers!

Stephen A. Smith is in a HUGE quagmire this week after saying MLB baseball star Shohei Ohtani — who is Japanese — is “harming” the marketing of professional baseball in America because he “doesn’t speak English.”

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorESPN’s Stephen A. Smith apologized on air Tuesday morning for comments he made about Los Angeles Angels star Shohei Ohtani, acknowledging the hot talk he typically offers on his program had elevated to boiling after he suggested the Japanese baseball star’s use of an interpreter diminished his appeal, as as well as that of the sport.Smith used the opening minutes of his popular ESPN program, “First Take,” to apologize to the “Asian community, the Asian American community, to Walt Disney and ESPN” for his comments.

As the Los Angeles Angels’ pitcher-slugger Shohei Ohtani moves toward a Major League Baseball feat that has not been accomplished since Babe Ruth, ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith went on First Take Monday morning to say Ohtani’s discomfort with speaking English in interviews hurts the marketability of the sport.

EXCLUSIVE: ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith and his Mr. SAS Productions (Stephen A’s World, Why Not Us?) have teamed with Ben Silverman and Howard T. Owens’ Propagate (Hulu’s Hillary) and Confluential Films (OWN’s Black Love) for Black Excellence, a documentary series examining the legacy of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Paramount and WWE Studios' animated feature Rumble is the latest studio pic to push back its release date in theaters due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The film, originally set to open on May 14, 2021, now won't launch on the big screen until Feb.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorStephen A. Smith sees a chance to move to cool conversation after years of playing up hot talk.The popular ESPN host is best known for making the emotional, vibrant views on games, athletes and coaches that draw audiences each weekday to the Walt Disney sports-media giant’s “First Take.” Starting this week, he hopes to show ESPN aficionados another side, by bringing original segments and even celebrity guests to his new program, “Stephen A’s World.”You won’t find the show on ESPN, but rather its streaming-video counterpart, ESPN Plus.“You can already see me pontificating or debating, being very demonstrative, bringing some news to the question” on his regular show, says Smith in an interview.

A reconceived SportsNation and a half-hour show from popular opinion host Stephen A. Smith are heading to ESPN+ as the growing streaming service adds more episodes of studio fare.

By Bruce Haring

Not one to let the runaway success of ESPN's docuseries The Last Dance go under-appreciated, the network's fellow Disney family member ABC will air a new special next week that digs deeper into the series centered on cultural icon Michael Jordan.

By Brian Steinberg

By Brian Steinberg