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Chris Mortensen in 2010. / Kirby Lee-Imagn Images This year's Super Bowl will be the first without longtime ESPN reporter Chris Mortensen—a network fixture who died on March 3 of throat cancer.
Tom Condon, a newspaperman in Connecticut for more than 50 years at The Hartford Courant and The Connecticut Mirror, died Tuesday morning.
I’m going to start with his singing. When people gathered around a piano to sing, Tom Condon knew a great many lyrics, and he sang with conviction and joy. And always significantly off-key. Tom ...
Coaches, GMs, journalists and friends came together last week to remember one of the most influential reporters in NFL history.
Chris Mortensen died this week in Birmingham, Alabama, at the age of 72.
Almost 40 years later, Dave Archer remembers Chris Mortensen’s smiling countenance. In 1985, Archer had become the Falcons’ starting quarterback, the same year Mortensen began covering the ...
1. My first thought when I read about the passing of ESPN's Chris Mortensen on Sunday was about how cool sports newsbreakers were back in the day before the internet.And by newsbreakers in that ...