NEW YORK (AP) — Dallas Cowboy followers be warned: ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith has a memoir coming out following calendar year.

13A, an imprint of Gallery Textbooks, declared Tuesday that Smith’s “Straight Shooter: A Memoir of 2nd Odds and 1st Takes” is scheduled for January 2023. According to 13A, Smith will share tales about expanding up weak in New York City, his early several years in journalism and his prolonged historical past of speaking his mind — to a fault — about sporting activities (the Cowboys are a most loved focus on) and a vast of variety of issues, like feedback about domestic violence that led to ESPN’s briefly suspending him in 2014.

“This e-book is a extensive time coming. Owing to my fixation on privateness pertaining to my personal life, it took a ton of time, and a whole lot of prodding by liked types, to eventually get me to do this,” Smith claimed in a statement.

“But as I as soon as instructed my Mom, ‘if I’m likely to compose a e-book, I’ll be damned if I’m holding again. I’m heading to speak my truth, say what I have to say, just so all people is familiar with in which I stand and why.’ I know I’ve carried out that in this e-book. I had to do so sooner or later. It was time. No subject the outcomes.”

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