Former ESPN “SportsCenter” anchor Sage Steele was living the life every sports anchor dreams of, until that dream job turned into a waking nightmare.
“When you’re cornered so many times, you have to make decisions,” Steele tells Dave Rubin. “Obviously, I made a decision that I thought was right for me, which was to stand up and speak out about how I’m being treated differently compared to my colleagues at the network because I don’t fit the narrative.”
Steele spoke out against mandatory vaccines, telling the podcast host that while he respects individual decisions, he thinks mandatory vaccinations are “disgusting” and “scary.” , was removed from the network in 2021.
Steele has also come under fire for comments about female sportswriters and harassment, saying women need to take responsibility for how they express themselves.
“When did you start noticing that something was wrong?” Dave Rubin asks Steele, and Steele tells him that there was one big trigger that sparked the change he woke up to.
“When Trump won,” she said, noting that on election night, ESPN executives were tweeting about Trump’s election and how “sickened” and “disgusted” they were.
“That was the beginning of the end for me,” Steele says.
ESPN’s blatant wokeness was a problem for Steele, but it wasn’t the network’s politics that pushed her in the wrong direction.
“At the end of the day, I don’t care who you vote for, I don’t care who you sleep with, I don’t care about any of that. Are you a good person? Kind. How do you treat me? The most important thing is how you treat others when the lights are off.”
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