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 for ESPN ... Mortensen had been at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution before jumping to ESPN, first covering the Atlanta Braves and filing investigative ...

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.

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.

Chris Mortensen was honored by the NFL inside the Superdome press box ahead of Super Bowl 59. Sunday marks the first Super Bowl since his death in March. A memorial was set up for the longtime ...