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Game Over for Ray Lewis and ESPN
The sports network is reportedly cycling out some of its football analysts.

Ray Lewis has reportedly been ousted from ESPN, where the legendary linebacker has been an analyst since retiring from the Baltimore Ravens in 2013.
Lewis and Cris Carter are "on the way out" of ESPN as the sports network revamps its NFL coverage, according to The Big Lead, which reported Monday that Randy Moss would be coming aboard.
On Monday evening, Lewis issued this tweet about growing professionally through pressure:
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build - believe pic.twitter.com/OSykW1q8Pl
— Ray Lewis (@raylewis) May 9, 2016
During his NFL career, Lewis played with the Baltimore Ravens from 1996 to 2012. After the 2013 Super Bowl, he retired and became an ESPN analyst.
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Last year, he released a memoir—I Feel Like Going on: Life, Game and Glory—which touches on murder charges he faced in a 2000 stabbing outside an Atlanta nightclub. He was acquitted and pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice, which was a misdemeanor.
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Pictured, Ray Lewis at the Cowboys-Redskins game on Dec. 7, 2015. Photo Credit: Keith Allison, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
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