The s🌜ports media bloodbath at ESPN apparently isn’t over.&nbဣsp;
Bomani Jones appears to be the latest big-name sports personality to leave the🐈 Worldwide Lea🃏der.
The network isn’t planning on renew🌠ing ജJones’ contract when it expires at the end of the month, .
The breakup comes weeks after HBO canceled Jones’ “ꦗGame Theory wi🗹th Bomani Jones,” which premiered in 2022 𒉰but struggled to gain vie🌳wership.
Jones didn’t conf𝄹irm his departure but did tell FOS that the company hasn’t shown interest in extending his contract.
“The economic fate of people in sports media is getting dicier and dicier by the day,” Jones told the outlet. “I think the ESPN layoffs were the beginning of it in a lot of ways. Seeing what happened [with] the New York Times shutting down their sports department and they moved those people to other desks, but at 🅺some point they’re probably going to deem those people to be surplus and they’re not going to be there anymore.”
Jones joins a long li🐭st of well-known sports media talents leaving ESPN over the last month.
In June,&n൲bsp;the com🍸pany laid off roughly 20 on-air personalities, includingಌ stars such as Jeff Van Gundy, Max Kellerman, Keyshawn Johnson, Suzy Kolber, and Jalen Rose.
Jones had been with the network for nearly two decꦡades, joining ESPN as a writer in 2004.
In 2010, Jones began appearing on “Around the Horn” and “Outside the Lines.”
He would later co-host the now-defunct “Highly Questionable” and “High Noon.”
He currently hosts “The Right Time with Bomani Jones,” which originated as a radio show and is now one of ESPN’s top-performing podcasts.
Jones, 42, has made a name for himself in the sports media world by being unafraid to talk about sports-related political and social iss🥂ues.&🔴nbsp;
The Post’s Andrew Marchand previously reported that Jones was likely to depart ESPN i💯n March 2022.
Jones had been averaging more than $2 million per y🐲ear on a previous deal before the company cut his salary to just north of $1 million per year, per Marchand.