New York Post

NO DAY OFF FOR ESPN LAYOFFS

- By JONATHAN LEHMAN jlehman@nypost.com

The proverbial bloodbath of ESPN layoffs that gripped the sports world Wednesday continued to trickle out Thursday.

Even more high-profile axes among on-air NFL and basketball talent have yet to be revealed, according to The Big Lead, as the so-called Worldwide Leader confronts its grim fiscal realities in a shifting sports-media landscape.

One of the more infamous personas at ESPN, television reporter Britt McHenry, announced she would exit the network after covering the NFL draft through Saturday.

“Staying on the NFL Draft as my last assignment,” McHenry posted on Twitter. “Grateful for 3 years at ESPN. My colleagues became best friends & I’ll cherish that the most.”

McHenry was suspended by ESPN in 2015 following a nasty tirade against a parking-lot attendant, footage of which went viral and stunted a once-ascendant career trajectory.

“I’m in the news, sweetheart, I will f---ing sue this place,” McHenry ranted in the video. “Do you feel good about your job? So I could be a college dropout and do the same thing? Why, cause I have a brain and you don’t? Maybe if I was missing some teeth they would hire me, huh? Oh like yours, ’cause they look so stunning. … ‘Cause I’m on television and you’re in a f---ing trailer, honey.”

It is possible others attached to the three-day blitz of draft coverage could be on their final assignment­s.

Andy Katz, a longtime fixture of ESPN’s college basketball coverage, also is among the cuts, he said Wednesday.

ESPN’s studio baseball programmin­g was hit particular­ly hard by the round of pink slips, as well.

MLB analysts Doug Glanville, Dallas Braden and Raul Ibanez are out — and ESPN announced plans to syndicate MLB Network’s “Intentiona­l Talk,” featuring Chris Rose and Kevin Millar, weekdays from 4-5 p.m. on ESPN2 as part of “a new collaborat­ive effort.”

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