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Ex-ESPN star Linda Cohn is back — with hotter takes than you’ve ever heard before

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Meet the new Linda Cohn. Same as the old Linda Cohn.

Only now, the pioneering sports broadcaster who delivered straight sports news at ESPN for 34 years, has shed her corporate yoke. She is embracing radical candor with her recently launched eponymous YouTube show.

“For the first time the gloves are off,” Cohn told me of her move into independent opinion journalism. “For the first time, I can speak freely on how I was feeling about certain subjects involving sports.”

And boy, had she stored up plenty to say. Cohn — who anchored SportsCenter and did play by play for the WNBA — retired from the network in June and wasted little time starting her second act.

In late July, the 66-year-old started the twice weekly (Tuesdays and Thursdays) Linda Cohn show weighing in on the biggest sports stories, including WNBA controversies (pick one), badly behaved influencers at the US Open, Arch Manning laughing at the AI video of Holly Rowe and ESPN’s round of layoffs this summer.

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