FS1 host Shannon Sharpe’s incident last week at the Lakers/Grizzlies game made plenty of noise in the media over the weekend.

Sharpe apologized for how he acted on Monday’s edition of Undisputed.

On Monday’s Travis & Sliwa on ESPN LA, host Allen Sliwa, Mason & Ireland host Steve Mason and executive producer Greg Bergman reacted to Grizzlies forward Dillon Brooks, who was chirped by Sharpe initially and said after the game he wondered why Sharpe wasn’t removed from the arena. Brooks also hinted that because celebrities are known to frequent those courtside seats in L.A., Sharpe got special treatment.

Mason said Sharpe absolutely got treated differently than any other fan who would try to cause a distraction or an altercation with a player.

“The difference is Shannon Sharpe is Shannon Sharpe,” Mason said. “It’s a town of stars, Shannon Sharpe is a well-known guy. First of all if that’s regular Joe fan guy involved in this, eject, right?”

As for it being an L.A. thing, Mason said he understood what Brooks meant. But he still felt like Sharpe should’ve been thrown out.

“We do sort of enjoy our stars, and we love to see them courtside, and we love their personalities,” he said. “I would eject the guy. I would’ve absolutely kicked him out of the arena.”

Bergman said Sharpe’s star factor (three-time Super Bowl champion and a hall of famer) played a role in how the whole thing was handled. But Sliwa noted that there wasn’t a playful element to the bantering.

“It wasn’t one of those situations where Shannon Sharpe is jawing at Dillon Brooks or Ja Morant, and they’re kind of going back and forth,” Sliwa said. “Shannon Sharpe was basically telling these guys ‘You want some of this, you come right here in front of me.'”

Mason said it was clear Sharpe was the instigator and star power shouldn’t have mattered. Security should’ve treated him like any other fan in these situations.

“One’s a fan and the other one is a player. There’s a difference,” Mason said. “I mean granted three-time Super Bowl champion and all that stuff, but right now just a civilian – with a fancy sweater.”

ESPN Houston assistant program director Brendan Riley announced Monday that he’s now the new assistant director of content at ESPN 1000 in Chicago. Riley had been at ESPN 97.5 since 2019.

Additionally, Riley will also be the executive producer of the White Sox Radio Network.

Brendan Riley had been producing for The Killer B’s with Joel Blank and Jeremy Branham in Houston as well.

Branham offered his well wishes and appreciation to Riley for the work he put in.

Skip Bayless is no stranger to being roasted on the internet. Usually, it is about a wildly, hot take. On Monday, it was for a strange video he made following the Dallas Cowboys’ loss to the San Francisco 49ers in the Divisional Round of the NFL Playoffs.

In the video, Bayless can be seen stomping into his kitchen holding a Dak Prescott jersey. He holds it up to the camera before throwing it in the garbage in a huff.

“He’s just a very, very odd dude,” 670 The Score’s Dan Bernstein said on Monday in response to the video. “Now he’s the world’s biggest Cowboy fan? Now he’s waving pom poms for the Cowboys?”

Bernstein didn’t elaborate much on what it is that makes Skip Bayless so odd, but he did mention that he had first hand knowledge and insight.

“I mean, he’s a very very very strange man. I’ve hosted shows with him. He’s just odd,” Bernstein said.

His partner Laurence Holmes was surprised to learn this. Holmes asked if it was possible he may have produced one of those shows.

Bernstein said it was. He recalled a particular show they hosted together where he had to pull Bayless back from saying something he would have regretted.

“I prevented him from getting in terrible trouble for what he almost said about Daunte Culpepper and I had to step in real quick.”

While Bernstein didn’t specify what it was Skip Bayless was about to say, he did note that Bayless was hung up on how Culpepper was “different” from other quarterbacks.

“I saved his dumb ass, because he wasn’t going to say that.”

Holmes said what adds to the strangeness of Bayless’s persona is the way he seems to still be playing into his former partner’s bit. He noted that Skip Bayless has started creating content about being the world’s biggest Cowboy fan around the same time that Stephen A. Smith has made a bit out of being a notorious Cowboys hater.

“It’s a really weird dance that they’re still doing even though they’re not partners anymore,” Holmes said.