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ESPN fires Trev Alberts

Wednesday, September 07, 2005

ESPN fired Trev Alberts on Sunday after the college football analyst failed to show up for work at ESPN's studios in Bristol, Conn., SI.com reported Tuesday night, according to the CHICAGO TRIBUNE.

"He phoned and said that he wasn't going to show up," Mark Shapiro, ESPN's vice president of programming and production, told SI.com. "When he didn't, he was in breach of his contract and we terminated him."

Quoting Shapiro, the Web site reported that on Sunday morning, in the midst of college football's first big weekend of the season, Alberts phoned ESPN's coordinating producer of college football, Ed Placey, and voiced his discontent over his role on "College Football Scoreboard" and "College Football Gameday."

Alberts eventually told ESPN that he would not be reporting for work that afternoon. Once the former All-American defensive end at Nebraska and Indianapolis Colts player failed to appear for his studio show assignment, he was fired, the site reported.

"They first wanted me to resign," Alberts told SI.com Tuesday night . "Then they fired me. I obviously have a serious problem with the word 'breach', but that's something my attorney will work out."