Longtime ESPN First Take host Molly Qerim left the show and network abruptly last week in a surprising move. Former ESPN employee Marcellus Wiley believes he knows why. A former NFL player and host of ...

Chris “Mad Dog” Russo believes Molly Qerim left ESPN before her contract expired at the end of this year because she didn’t want to finish the year as a “lame duck” with a potential “demotion” on the ...

It appears that Molly Qerim felt disrespected by ESPN. Qerim’s abrupt departure not only from the First Take show she co-hosted with Stephen A. Smith for 10 years, but also from the ESPN network, came ...

The sudden departure of longtime host Molly Qerim from ESPN’s First Take was one of the more surprising sports media stories of 2025, but weekly guest host Chris “Mad Dog” Russo recently provided an ...

Molly Qerim abruptly left ESPN last week after a decade as the host of “First Take,” and a new theory has emerged about why she decided to resign. Qerim was expected to part ways with ESPN when her ...