ATLANTA, GA — Chris Mortensen, a longtime award-winning ESPN writer and past Atlanta reporter, died Sunday after a battle with Stage 4 throat cancer, ESPN said. He was 72. An official cause of ...

Chris Mortensen, the longtime NFL insider ... He will be forever missed and remembered.” Mortensen had been at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution before jumping to ESPN, first covering the Atlanta ...

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. However, the longtime journalist is not forgotten.

Prior to joining ESPN, Mortensen spent seven years at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he reported on the Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta Braves and conducted investigative journalism.