Sarah Spain Blasts ESPN Management's 'Old, White Dudes'

Sarah Spain is a longtime ESPN talking head who is more famous for her radical political views than anything she's ever said about actual sports. 

Some of her biggest hits include: 

• Calling the Tampa Bay Rays players who cited religious beliefs as to why they didn't want to wear rainbow patches "bigots."
• Liking tweets saying ESPN colleague Sam Ponder engages in "bigotry" for wanting to protect women's sports from men
• Telling sports radio executives that they need to appeal to women and the LGBTQ community because the audience of "old white dudes" is "going to die" and then "no one will be left."

Seriously, that last one is real. 

That clip makes me laugh because Spain's intimation is that "old, white dudes" are the only ones who favor conservative values and once they die, there will be nothing left but left-wing radicals. 

Of course, she fails to realize that throughout history radical left-wing politics have eventually destroyed everything, so she might be right. 

Except the part that later the women and LGBTQ crowd will be there to pick up the pieces and start listening to sports talk radio. 

But younger people in America are starting to wake up and realize that the demonization of "old, white dudes" isn't productive for society. 

Nor is attacking them based on nothing but age and skin color, which amounts to racism and ageism. Two things Sarah Spain claims to be against, by the way. 

ESPN talking head Sarah Spain says that ESPN rejected her idea to have a daily show about women's sports.

(Adam Berry/Getty Images for iHeartMedia)

Well, she was at it again Monday. On a podcast with Richard Deitsch, Spain bemoaned that ESPN wouldn't green-light a daily show about women's sports. 

"When you get to the top of most places, it is still a middle-aged white dude," Spain said, according to Awful Announcing. 

"They have to recognize that they are being told, ‘You are years behind a massive economic opportunity,’ and still not think of it as a charity. That’s what’s been really frustrating for me."

"A massive economic opportunity" is an interesting choice of words. We have no idea if a women's sports-only show would work, but there are certainly reasons to be skeptical. 

Only recently did the popularity of women's basketball explode and that's because of Caitlin Clark's rise to stardom. She helped the Women's NCAA Basketball Tournament garner record TV ratings and has done the same in the WNBA. 

Whether that's going to translate in the long-term to an explosion in women's sports popularity remains to be seen. But Spain is so certain that it will and that only "middle-aged white dudes" can't see that. 

Again, Sarah Spain happily pushes left-wing talking points that promote "inclusivity" yet she has, multiple times, attacked an entire group of people based on age, skin color and gender. 

Doesn't sound very inclusive, does it? 

ESPN talking head Sarah Spain (left) talks with Sue Bird.

(Adam Berry/Getty Images for iHeartMedia)

She also said that women's sporting events are better to attend because they embody all the good parts of sports, minus the "toxic masculinity" and "drunken fighting."

It's funny that Spain accuses ESPN of ignoring her ideas about a women's sports show because they don't see the value in women's sports. 

After all, she acknowledged that "ESPN does more than anybody else, both in terms of hours of women’s sports programming, rights packages, coverage" before adding that "they could do more. They could do [it] differently." 

Maybe ESPN just didn't want to do a women's sports show with Sarah Spain. After all, she's gained no real traction at the company despite working there for over 15 years. 

She's an occasional panelist on Around the Horn and … well, that's about it. 

She hosted several different ESPN Radio shows with multiple different partners as ESPN desperately tried to find someone who could make her successful. But it just didn't happen. 

As someone who was tasked with producing several of those shows during my time at ESPN, it was never hard to see why. Spain cared far more about spreading her worldview than actually covering sports. 

There was a short period when I had to produce her podcast. This period included 2016. Spain started one of her shows nearly in tears when Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton to win the presidency. 

Once again, she blamed "white men" for trying to ruin the country and not "being ready" for a woman president. 

But that's where Sarah Spain thrives – victimhood. Even though Spain has had far more success than her "talent" deserved, she still feels entitled to more. In her mind, the only thing holding her back is "white men." 

Actually, the major thing holding Spain back is a lack of ability to communicate with a broad audience. She panders to the lowest common denominator of left-wing radicals. 

That's her fault, not ours.