re: That bitch Maria Taylor

Was just an article discussing the Rachel Nichols fall out. She essentially was pissed she was losing ground to Maria Taylor and tried to blame it entirely on diversity policies... was a phone call that she accidentally hot-mic'd herself with a camera that sent the video to ESPN servers where it was seen and shared internally. Was a bad look by her, and then she tried to "woe is me" and talk about how upset she was that someone internally shared a "spy video" of a woman alone in her hotel room, all the while trying to play the female diversity card as ESPN's bigger problem.

Ultimately, a lot of the NBA pre-game staff considered not showing up after producers put out some "directives" going forward that they saw as deferential to Rachel.

I don't think ESPN was ever really going to recover from that situation with Maria, when she's not only more valuable than they want to pay (this has been a continued trend where they seem to be decreasing their ceiling for on air talent pay), but had that eroded trust as well.