Cold Pizza host Skip Bayless on the ESPN set in Miami, Florida on February 1, 2007. (Photo by Allen Kee/Getty Images) *** Local Caption ***

First Take has found its Bayless replacement, and he is not nearly as loud

Looks like they found someone in-house.

Just when everyone was enjoying their summer off from ESPN's First Take, we get the news that it's back and has its newest talking head on it. The show will replace Skip Bayless with SportsNation's Max Kellerman who will leave that show to permanently bicker with Stephen A. Smith.

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The show made the move official Monday morning:

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Kellerman has been hosting SportsNation since 2013. He'll sit opposite Stephen A. Smith weekday mornings from 10 AM ET until Noon. He was also the original host of Around The Horn until 2004 when he left and Tony Reali took over and the show immensely more popular.

 

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