Dan Gross: Tolly's contract not renewed

Philadelphia Daily News, June, 2008

FOX 29 sports director  Don Tollefson 's contract at Fox 29 was not renewed yesterday, a station spokeswoman has confirmed.

Tollefson, 55, returned to Fox 29 Sunday night after being out since early April recovering from a car accident, but was off air Monday night, when the station told us he was "back on leave."

Why would the station bring a guy back from leave for one day only to announce two days later that he was no longer working for the station? Good question.

We were told Monday that Tolly's desk had been cleaned out that night when he did not go on the 5 or 10 p.m. newscasts. Yesterday we learned of an argument Tollefson had with news director  Kingsley Smith  last week, after he showed up at the station and wanted to go on air to be part of a send-off...