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It looks like Skip Bayless has found his next debate partner. There were reports last month that ex-NFL star Shannon Sharpe (who had previously debated Bayless as a guest host on ESPN’s First Take) was a “leading candidate” to join Bayless’ yet-to-be-named show at FS1, and an Awful Announcing source now says that “It’ll be Shannon Sharpe with Skip Bayless.” When asked for comment, a Fox spokesman said “No comment from us on this one at this time.”

It will be interesting to see how the new Bayless show shapes up, and if Sharpe will be just filling Stephen A. Smith’s old role as Bayless’ debate foil, or if there will be a different spin on it. Given Fox Sports’ National Networks president Jamie Horowitz’s role in embracing debate at ESPN and his comments about doing the same at Fox, it seems likely we’ll be in for lots of debate.

http://awfulannouncing.com/2016/source-shannon-sharpe-to-join-skip-bayless-on-new-fox-show.html

Shannon was pretty awful on CBS's NFL studio show when he was there, so I'm not sure how good this will be.