First Take, Second Thoughts?: Stephen A. Smith Gets Pressed By Jemele Hill & Cari Champion Over ESPN Past

First Take, Second Thoughts?: Stephen A. Smith Gets Pressed By Jemele Hill & Cari Champion Over ESPN Past Stephen A. Smith finally had to answer for some old ESPN smoke. Source: Allen Berezovsky / GettyStephen A. Smith is used to doing the pressing on First Take, but the tables were turned when he sat down with former ESPN colleagues Jemele Hill and Cari Champion for a very candid conversation about their complicated history at the Worldwide Leader. Stephen A. Smith appeared on Hill and Champion’s Flagrant And Funny Podcast, where the three broadcasters went through years of disagreements, public criticism and lingering issues from their respective runs at ESPN. Champion wasted little time challenging Smith’s version of how she landed her former gig moderating First Take alongside him and Skip Bayless.“Skip Bayless did not want to hire you,” Smith told Champion while discussing how she joined the show. “Neither did you,” Champion fired back. Champion joined ESPN in 2012 after working at Tennis Channel and eventually became the moderator of First Take before moving on to SportsCenter and SportsNation. Smith has previously claimed he played a major role in Champion getting the Fi...