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ESPN Rising Star Jemele Hill: I'm not interested in filling Skip Bayless's chair on 'First Take'

Well, we know one rising ESPN star who's not interested in filling Skip Bayless' chair across from Stephen A. Smith on "First Take."

Namely, Jemele Hill, co-host of ESPN2's "His and Hers" with Michael Smith.

Sporting News broke the story a month ago that Fox Sports boss Jamie Horowitz was going to recruit Bayless to join ex-ESPNers Colin Cowherd and Jason Whitlock on his ratings-challenged FS1 network.

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Horowitz told me that news/highlight shows like ESPN's flagship "SportsCenter" were dinosaurs, losing 30 percent of their audience in recent years.