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Yessss! Showtime has set a summer premiere date for NYC Point Gods, a feature-length documentary on the enduring impact of New York City point guards who honed their craft on the city’s playgrounds and high school gyms in the 1980s and ’90s.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterStephanie McMahon has announced she will be taking a leave of absence from WWE.“As of tomorrow, I am taking a leave of absence from the majority of my responsibilities at WWE,” McMahon wrote on Twitter. “WWE is a lifelong legacy for me and I look forward to returning to the company that I love after taking this time to focus on my family.”McMahon currently serves as chief brand officer of WWE.

Gabrielle Union keeps close to husband Dwyane Wade at the premiere of Apple’s They Call Me Magic held at Regency Village Theatre on Thursday (April 14) in Los Angeles.

WWE. On Friday, the 52-year-old wrestler, who was born Paul Michael Levesque, announced that due to recent health issues, he's decided to get out of the game. Levesque, who made his WWE debut in 1995 and is a 14-time world champion, went into heart failure last September following a bout with viral pneumonia.«I will never wrestle again,» Levesque, who is also an executive vice president with WWE, told Stephen A.

ESPN host Stephen A. Smith has a reputation for shooting from the hip with outrageous takes on sports issues. Today, he turned the attention on himself, candidly admitting his role in having First Take co-host Max Kellerman removed from the show.

video above.Kellerman left “First Take” in late August. He will be filling his mornings as the third host of ESPN Radio’s morning talk show, which has been retitled to “Keyshawn, JWill & Max.” Kellerman will also continue to host the weekly boxing show, “Max on Boxing” on ESPN2, and will launch new daily TV series “This Just In” on Tuesday afternoon.Michael Irvin and Tim Tebow will be among the guest rotation on “First Take” that appear opposite its now-solo star Stephen A.

Tim Tebow was announced today by ESPN as one of the initial debate partners on Stephen A. Smith’s First Take.

Michael Irvin and Tim Tebow will be among the guest rotation on “First Take” that appear opposite its now solo star Stephen A. Smith.Irvin will join the show on Mondays during the NFL season, while Tebow (who was attempting an NFL comeback as tight end with the Jacksonville Jaguars) will bookend each week on Fridays.

ESPN host Stephen A. Smith is tightening his grip on daytime talk mainstay First Take, as co-host Max Kellerman is departing the show and making way for rotating co-hosts.

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.

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.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorStephen A.

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

If I had to choose a favorite line from Drew Magary's excellent GQ profile of ESPN takemaster Stephen A. Smith from late last year, I'd probably go with Smith saying how frustrated he is by the nature of the debates on his ubiquitous daily talk show First Take.