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By Daniel Chavkin A simple question got the ESPN analyst into some trouble. ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith and Molly Qerim have been working on First Take together for seven years, but apparently that’s not long enough for Smith to know how to pronounce Qerim’s name. On Friday, the First Take host put Smith on the spot by asking him to pronounce her last name. Smith used a long “e” in his pronunciation, when Qerim is actually pronounced with an “a” sound. “It’s OK, we’ve only worked together for like seven years; it’s fine,” Qerim said. Still, Smith didn’t realize he was pronouncing her name incorrec…