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Chris Mortensen

Peyton Manning smiling

Peyton Manning offers heartfelt tribute to Chris Mortensen

Peyton Manning had a great amount of trust and respect for longtime ESPN NFL reporter Chris Mortensen, who died Sunday. Manning made that clear with a heartfelt statement in response to Mortensen’s death. In a message on Instagram, Manning said …

Chris Mortensen on the ESPN set

Longtime NFL reporter Chris Mortensen dies

Longtime ESPN reporter Chris Mortensen has died. ESPN shared the news of Mortensen’s death on Sunday. “Mort was widely respected as an industry pioneer and universally loved as a supporting, hard-working teammate. He covered the NFL with …

Chris Mortensen on the ESPN set

ESPN’s Chris Mortensen makes big career announcement

ESPN’s coverage of the upcoming NFL season will look quite a bit different than it has in years past, as Chris Mortensen has announced he is stepping away from the network. Mortensen shared the news on social media Tuesday. He said he decided …

Panthers coach Frank Reich looks ahead

Chris Mortensen reveals who Panthers will take with No. 1 pick

The Carolina Panthers have given no indication that they know which quarterback they will take first overall in the upcoming NFL Draft, but one longtime NFL insider is confident the pick is in. ESPN’s Chris Mortensen said on …

Justin Fields

Famed throwing coach calls out Chris Mortensen for his Justin Fields take

Chris Mortensen is the latest ESPN analyst to indicate teams may have some concerns about selecting Justin Fields with a high pick in the upcoming draft, and famed throwing coach Tom House strongly disagrees with Mortensen’s take. During a …

Chris Mortensen

Video: Daniel Jeremiah, Chris Mortensen shared nice moment during NFL Draft

The 2020 NFL Draft was carried on multiple networks due to the extenuating circumstances surrounding the event, and that allowed for a heartwarming moment between Daniel Jeremiah and Chris Mortensen. Jeremiah is a former NFL scout who now works for …

Is ESPN’s Chris Mortensen subtweeting rival Ian Rapoport with rat emojis over Adam Schefter scoops?

ESPN veteran NFL reporter Chris Mortensen caused some confusion on Twitter Monday by sending some odd tweets that some think may be targeted at a rival reporter. Mortensen on three occasions Monday sent tweets containing rat emojis. Zach Schwartz …

Chris Mortensen

Chris Mortensen says his throat cancer is nearly all gone

ESPN NFL reporter Chris Mortensen shared some excellent news Wednesday about his recovery from Stage IV throat cancer. Mortensen says that after undergoing months of treatment, nearly all of his cancer is gone. Here is the update ESPN shared about …

Chris Mortensen

Chris Mortensen diagnosed with throat cancer

ESPN NFL analyst Chris Mortensen has been diagnosed with Stage IV throat cancer and will take a leave of absence for treatment, the network announced on Friday. Mortensen announced the diagnosis in a statement released through ESPN. “More than …

Dave Portnoy holds ‘Chris Mortensen lies’ sign on ESPN broadcast (Video)

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady met with Roger Goodell and the NFL very briefly in Manhattan federal court on Monday. It took about five minutes to determine that no settlement would be reached, but that was enough time for the official …

Chris Mortensen

Chris Mortensen denies being played by NFL source about Deflategate, says Krafts apologized to him

Chris Mortensen denies that he was played by an NFL source regarding Deflategate, even though his initial report — which later proved to be false — helped kick the scandal into high gear and made the Patriots look a lot worse than the …

Chris Mortensen

Chris Mortensen had awesome quote about bad Patriots reporting in 2008

I’m not usually one to take something a person did or said eight years ago and throw it in his or her face, but this is just too good to pass up. Early Thursday morning, ESPN apologized to the New England Patriots after its employees made …

Did Chris Mortensen delete Deflategate tweet because of Bill Simmons?

ESPN NFL reporter Chris Mortensen on Tuesday finally deleted his infamous tweet about Deflategate. Mort apparently figured out where the “delete” button was around the same time Bill Simmons started chiming in on his false report. …

Chris Mortensen

Chris Mortensen on not fixing Deflategate report: I’m still figuring Twitter out

Less than a week after he bailed out of an interview with WEEI in Boston at the last second, ESPN’s Chris Mortensen joined “The Dan Le Batard Show” on Monday to address his false report about Deflategate. Back in January, Mortensen …

Chris Mortensen getting crushed on Twitter over Deflategate

It has been more than six months since ESPN’s Chris Mortensen falsely reported that 11 of the 12 game balls the New England Patriots used in the AFC Championship Game were underinflated by two pounds per square inch each. But by canceling a …

Chris Mortensen nixes chance to explain false Deflategate report

ESPN’s Chris Mortensen was scheduled to appear on a radio show in Boston on Friday morning, but he pulled the plug after it became clear that the hosts were setting the stage to blast him for his Deflategate reporting. Mortensen told …

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