Steele suffered undisclosed mouth injuries in the incident - and shared a photo showing the golf ball caused her to bleed profusely. The 49-year-old also thanked her co-host, Matt Barrie, for all that he did out at the event and at the hospital to keep her calm. She expressed gratitude for the support she received after the accident /wMVViXUWPA- ESPN PR J thanked God on the show, and said that she feels like 'the luckiest person in the world to still be here and be standing after that.' Photo courtesy of Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Cisco Systems, Inc.Wednesday, returned to the Noon ET edition of - for the first time since she was struck in the face by a golf ball on May 19 at the PGA Championship The ball is in ESPNвЂ™s court, and it will be more than interesting to see what the next move is for the вЂњWorldwide Leader in Sports.вЂќ This dates back to a leaked audiotape this past summer of Rachel Nichols, a white woman, speaking about former employee Maria Taylor and implying she got a role because she is Black. A story published on Tuesday claimed ESPN removed anchor Sage Steele from its programming for a week following a positive test for COVID-19 and also for remarks she made during a recent podcast. It is unclear when or if Steele will return to programming, but what is certain is that ESPN is in another round of controversy involving its personnel, specifically those who are Black. She labelled her companyвЂ™s vaccine mandate as sick and scary and questioned Barack ObamaвЂ™s identification as an African-American. She has been suspended from ESPN programming, and on top of everything, Steele tested positive for COVID-19 the same day she got her vaccine. Sage Steele takes a break from ESPN Sage Steele has been thrust into the spotlight following controversial comments on former NFL quarterback Jay CutlerвЂ™s podcast, Uncut, on 29 September 2021. She has had a history of criticizing players for standing up in the fight for social justice, which she claims resulted in her not being included in ESPNвЂ™s special about race.ДЄs a result of her actions, Steele has been reprimanded by ESPN. This has not been the first time Steele has been outspoken. Steele called the vaccine mandates вЂњsickвЂќ and вЂњscary,вЂќ however she was not surprised that it had gotten to that point. Steele said it was вЂњfascinatingвЂќ that the former president would put being Black only on his census, considering his вЂњBlack dad was nowhere to be found.' This sparked outrage on social media this, however, was not the end of SteeleвЂ™s rant-filled appearance, as she then began to talk about the recent vaccine mandate given by ESPNвЂ™s parent company, Disney. ESPN host Sage Steele has been removed from her role for a week after a rant in which she called vaccine mandates sick and spoke about former president Barack ObamaвЂ™s race. After defending herself, she then went on to talk about President Barack Obama and his blackness. The remarks had been made in a wide-ranging interview during which Ms. Steele began to re-tell a story of how when she was a host on вЂњThe ViewвЂќ she was questioned for why she checks off being biracial on her census. ESPN has suspended Sage Steele after the Black sportscaster and host blasted her networkвЂ™s COVID-19 rules as sick. This past week, Steele was a guest on former NFL quarterback Jay CutlerвЂ™s podcast вЂњUncut,вЂќ where Cutler described Steele as the вЂњCandace Owens of ESPN.вЂќ From there things turned ugly.

Sage Steele, a longtime anchor at ESPN, is under fire for remarks she made about former president Barack Obama, as well as slamming DisneyвЂ™s vaccine mandate for all employees. ESPN, the worldwide leader in sports, is in yet another round of controversy.

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