{"id":39745,"date":"2025-04-24T23:37:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T23:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/shannon-sharpe-takes-break-from-espn-amid-sexual-assault-allegations\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T23:37:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T23:37:53","slug":"shannon-sharpe-takes-break-from-espn-amid-sexual-assault-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/shannon-sharpe-takes-break-from-espn-amid-sexual-assault-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Shannon Sharpe takes break from ESPN amid sexual assault allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Woman filed lawsuit against former NFL star<\/li>\n<li>Hall of famer denies allegations against him<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Former NFL star Shannon Sharpe says he is stepping away from his duties as an ESPN analyst after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/apr\/21\/shannon-sharpe-lawsuit-allegations\">a lawsuit was filed against him<\/a> in Nevada on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit was filed by a woman who says she met the 56-year-old Sharpe at a Los Angeles gym in 2023 when she was 20. A two-year consensual relationship ensued during which, she alleges, he raped her.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/apr\/24\/shannon-sharpe-espn-assault-allegations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woman filed lawsuit against former NFL star Hall of famer denies allegations against him Former NFL star Shannon Sharpe says he is stepping away from his duties as an ESPN analyst after a lawsuit was filed against him in Nevada on Sunday. The lawsuit was filed by a woman who says she met the 56-year-old &#8230; <a title=\"Shannon Sharpe takes break from ESPN amid sexual assault allegations\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/shannon-sharpe-takes-break-from-espn-amid-sexual-assault-allegations\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Shannon Sharpe takes break from ESPN amid sexual assault allegations\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}