{"id":33563,"date":"2025-07-30T23:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T23:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/33563\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T23:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T23:15:11","slug":"nfl-hall-of-fame-star-shannon-sharpe-axed-by-espn-after-sexual-assault-lawsuit-news-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/33563\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Hall of Fame star Shannon Sharpe axed by ESPN after sexual assault lawsuit, news 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

NFL<\/a> Hall of Fame tight end-turned-broadcaster Shannon Sharpe will not return to ESPN, a person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

The decision comes less than two weeks after Sharpe resolved a lawsuit that accused him of sexually assaulting a woman during their relationship.<\/p>\n

The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the decision has not been announced.<\/p>\n

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Sharpe\u2019s last appearance on ESPN was in late April, when the lawsuit was filed in Nevada. No details of the settlement were released. The lawsuit had sought about $77 million.<\/p>\n

The 57-year-old Sharpe called the accusations \u201cfalse and disruptive” at the time they were levied and hoped to return in time for the NFL season.<\/p>\n

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Former NFL football player and sports analyst Shannon Sharpe.\u00a0AP Photo\/Chris Pizzello, File<\/p>\n

Instead, ESPN opted to move on from the brash four-time All-Pro tight end who won three Super Bowls during his 14-year career.<\/p>\n

Sharpe retired as the NFL\u2019s all-time leader among tight ends in receptions (815), yards receiving (10,060) and touchdowns (62). Those records have since been broken.<\/p>\n

Sharpe has been a staple on TV and social media since retiring.<\/p>\n

He left FS1\u2019s sports debate show Undisputed in 2023 and joined ESPN soon afterward. He served as a panelist on the network’s morning show First Take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL Hall of Fame tight end-turned-broadcaster Shannon Sharpe will not return to ESPN, a person with knowledge of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-33563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}