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Chris ‘Mort’ Mortensen, an award-winning reporter who covered the NFL, dies at 72

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March 3, 2024March 4, 2024News Room

Chris Mortensen, the award-winning journalist who covered the NFL for close to four decades, including 32 as a senior analyst at ESPN, died Sunday morning. He was 72.

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