Skip Bayless Bio, Early Life, Career, Wife, Net Worth, Measurements

Skip Bayless is an American television sports columnist, journalist, and personality. He is well known for his analyst work with Stephen A. Smith on the ESPN2 show, First Take, which he left in June 2016. On September 6, 2016, Bayless presented his new show Skip and Shannon: Undisputed on Fox Sports 1 with Shannon Sharpe.

SKIP BAYLESS: EARLY CHILDHOOD, EDUCATION, FAMILY

Bayless was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on December 4, 1951 as John Edward Bayless II. His father, John Sr., immediately started calling him Skip – his father even called his mother ‘Skip’, as in ‘the skipper of the ship’. The name soon stuck, and his parents never named Bayless John, so much so that he eventually changed his name to jumping. In her youth, Bayless worked in the restaurant but never treated it as a career path. His younger brother, Rick Bayless, followed his family’s legacy and became a chef, restaurateur and TV star. He also has a younger sister.

Bayless’s interest in sports began at an early age and he played baseball and basketball, while a senior he averaged 1.4 ppg and played JV. Bayless was the salute for the class of 1970 from Northwest Classen. He was a member of the National Honor Society for two years and president of the school’s Christian Athletes Fellowship chapter. The journalist had also been an officer in the postman’s party. Later, he worked as the sports editor of The Hustler, the university’s student newspaper, and spent the summer of 1969 interning at the Daily Oklahoman under sports editor Frank Boggs.

SKIP BAYLESS: CAREER AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Journalism

Bayless went straight from Vanderbilt to the Miami Herald, where he spent just over two years writing sports reports. In August 1976, he then took a job at the Los Angeles Times. There he became best known for his investigative reports of the frustration of “golden boy” Steve Garvey and his famous wife Cyndy at the Los Angeles Dodgers clubhouse, and for behind-the-scenes decisions made by Rams owner Carroll Rosenbloom of select different shifts each week. Bayless received the 1977 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Newspaper Reporting for his reporting of Seattle Slew’s Triple Crown victory.

Bayless was hired by the Dallas Morning News at age 26 to write their main sports column and joined the Dallas Times Herald three years later. After 17 years, Bayless left Dallas in 1998 and became the Chicago Tribune’s chief sports columnist.

Television

Bayless joined host Dick Schaap as a panelist on ESPN’s Sports Reporters in 1989. Additionally, he was a Sunday morning guest for the next decade. In 1992, Bayless became a member of the original debate team with Mitch Albom and Michael Wilbon on the NFL Prime Monday episodes ‘Knights of the Roundtable’. Likewise, in 2004, ESPN recruited Bayless full-time to team up with Woody Paige of the Denver Post. They team up in ESPN2’s daily Cold Pizza talk segments called “1st and 10”, and to write columns for ESPN.com. Bayless was confirmed to have parted ways with ESPN on April 26, 2016, and would move to Fox Sports after his contract expired in August.

Movies

Bayless had a cameo role in the 2006 film Rocky Balboa with fellow ESPN members Woody Paige and Jay Crawford. He starred in the 2010 ESPN for 30 Movie, Pony Excess, about the Southern Methodist University football scandal involving gross violations of NCAA rules and regulations. Writing for both the Dallas Morning News and the Dallas Times Herald, Bayless has covered Mustangs. He also featured in the 2011 ESPNU documentary, Herschel, about running back Herschel Walker at the University of Georgia.

SKIP BAYLESS: PERSONAL LIFE AND WIFE

In 2016, Skip Bayless gave us Ernestine Sclafani. She is writing a practical book for sports-loving partners. However, no further information regarding the couple is available.

SKIP BAYLESS: FORTUNE AND SOCIAL MEDIA

The American sportswriter has a net worth of $13 million. Skip earns $5 million a year at Fox Sports.

Likewise, talking about its availability on social media platforms, it can be accessed on Twitter as ‘ RealSkipBayless ‘ and has 2.5 million followers. Besides, he can also be accessed on Instagram as ‘ skipbayless ‘ and has 369,000 followers.

SKIP BAYLESS: BODY MEASUREMENTS

Bayless has a wild workout schedule, which usually starts at 3 a.m., according to his wife. Moreover, we can surely say that he retains a large part of his physique. He is 1.78m tall and weighs 78kg. Additionally, he has dark blonde hair and hazel eyes.