Fight! Stephen A. Smith Challenged to Boxing Match by Dez Bryant

Barstool apparently recently made racially insensitive jokes while suggesting Bryant was guilty of a crime. In Smith's case, Bryant may simply see him as ESPN's biggest voice, and therefore responsible for the network's "targeting'' of athletes.

Smith - not surprisingly - backpedaled away from it all, using social media to announce that Bryant is "my brother.''

"Dez, I'm sad that you sent that tweet, my brother," Smith said . "For the record, to the audience out there, I've never had a problem with Dez Bryant, not one time. I love the X. I used to troll them when they were Cowboy fans but I never had an issue with Dez."

Smith has made a cottage-industry career out of being a (fake) "Cowboys hater.'' We wont bother to check back on a decade of his "coverage'' of Bryant and the Cowboys to confirm that he "never'' said anything negative about the receiver. (Though on its surface we find that to be a dubious claim.)

Bryant responded to Smith, saying, "My problem is not with you but I do plan on speaking my story on how I feel about a lot of things.''

We'll be honest here: "Speaking his story'' is a fine idea. Because Dez Bryant getting into a boxing ring against a couple of sportswriters ... will not end well for the couple of sportswriters.