Skip Bayless Rushed To Hospital As Blood Pressure Drops Below 280/120
In a worrying sequence of events, FS1 commentator and beloved sports personality Skip Bayless was quickly taken to Cedars-Sinai Emergency Medical Center in West Hollywood on Tuesday, after collapsing on set due to a precarious drop in his blood pressure to below 280/120 mmHg.
“I could tell something was wrong about twenty minutes into taping: I happened to look at Skip during one of our debate segments, and I didn’t see one drop of facial sweat,” said concerned coworker Shannon Sharpe, “And then there was that weird moment where I actually agreed with him about Travis Kelce’s contract extension. I’m wondering if that pushed him over the edge, because that’s never happened before.”
According to friends of Bayless, the sudden onset of hypotension could have been triggered by any one of several deviations to the commentator’s routine. Bayless reportedly had missed his usual wake-up time of 2:00 a.m. that morning, causing him to curtail his daily 60-mile run before showing up to the Fox Sports studio lot. Bayless also appears to have missed his ritual 2-hour pre-show kickboxing session with the studio’s wall, as he was needed in Hair and Makeup. Finally, Sharpe also alluded to a particularly unsettling moment during the opening segments of the show, when Bayless caused a freak pause in the pair’s conversation by accidentally taking his first breath on camera since 2005.
“We all want him back in the studio as quickly as possible, but right now my main concern is for his health,” said Sharpe, still stationed outside of the Emergency Room alongside Skip’s brother Rick, who was busy relaying dietary information to a severely intimidated-looking orderly. “I told the doctors that they should probably go easy on him, but Skip contradicted me. I guess that’s a good sign.”
According to hospital sources, Bayless has still not been released pending further testing, as his initial results had been inconclusive due to Bayless’s blood burning its way through the IV tubing as soon as Sharpe entered the room.
