Washington Post
Rachel Nichols is back on the air, but the fallout at ESPN is just beginning
Rachel Nichols hosted her long-running afternoon TV show, “The Jump,” Monday afternoon, and began with a brief apology: “I . . . don’t want to let this moment pass without saying . . . how deeply, deeply sorry I am for disappointing those I hurt, particularly Maria Taylor,” she said. It was a day after the New York Times published leaked audio from a private conversation Nichols had a year before, in which she suggested that Taylor, her colleague, would replace Nichols as host of the network’s N