Sage Steele Offers Powerful Words After ESPN Fires Host Who Defended Sanctity of Women’s Sports
One of the country’s most prominent women in sports journalism has weighed in on ESPN getting rid of one of its most prominent female faces.
And Sage Steele, a former ESPN personality who has become a national voice for the conservative conservative cause, held nothing back in praising Samantha Steele Ponder.
The move represented ESPN’s loss, Steele said, but the rest of the world’s gain.
ESPN on Thursday announced that Ponder had been laid off along with analyst and former NFL quarterback Robert Griffin III.
Ponder was a sideline reporter for the network as well as host of ESPN’s “Sunday NFL Countdown.”
She also defended the sanctity of women’s sports,