Sage Steele recalls how Stephen A Smith warned her against speaking out while still at ESPN

Former ESPN colleagues Sage Steele and Stephen A. Smith reunited on the former's podcast earlier this week, and they relived a memory when Steele made a major move that risked her tenure at the network, which was already in jeopardy.

Steele spoke about how she was not included in an ESPN special amid the height of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, and her former Black colleagues refused to be on it if she was, which was publicized in a Wall Street Journal article.

"That hid hard," Steele said on her show.