Sage Steele sues ESPN, claiming she was sidelined because of her views

ESPN's Sage Steele is suing her own network, saying that she was wrongly singled out — and sidelined from coverage — after making controversial remarks on a podcast. The Wall Street Journal reports that Steele's suit says she was unfairly blocked from big assignments and the sideline under the network's policy of prohibiting talent from making political statements. On Jay Cutler's podcast last September, Steele criticized parent company Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) about its Covid-19 vaccine…