"One day you get a phone call, and I thought it was a return to work plan again. I was cleared, my [doctors] cleared me to do that. They went the other way, and they chose to terminate that contract."
The incident occurred when the reporter visited the professor's residence seeking comments following her verbal attack on pro-life activist students at her university.
The network is saying it is the second in a "robust slate of Republican Presidential Town Halls produced as part of the network's expansive coverage of the 2024 election".
"ESPN has the talent, the access and the rights to own that conversation every day. Rather than treating the 2 p.m. hour as a seasonal football play, the network should turn it into a year-round destination for football fans."