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ESPN’s Chris Mortensen, seen here working an NFL game in 2006, died on Sunday. He was 72. (Al Messerschmidt/Getty Images) Longtime NFL reporter and ESPN journalist Chris Mortensen died on Sunday morning, the network announced. He was 72. Specifics of his death are not yet known, though Mortensen had been battling cancer for years. ESPN is very sorry to have to share this devastating news. Award-winning journalist Chris Mortensen passed away this morning at the age of 72. Source link

LAS VEGAS: In four decades of writing about the Las Vegas underworld and government corruption, investigative reporter Jeff German took on plenty of powerful and dangerous people. The hard-bitten newsman was once punched by an organized crime associate and received veiled threats from mobsters. Nothing seemed to faze him as he doggedly went about his work. So German characteristically didn’t express concern when Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles, a virtually unknown… Source link

You might have heard Alabama head coach Nick Saban has a somewhat tenuous relationship with reporters, but he was grateful for at least one of them on Wednesday. During a news conference ahead of Alabama’s road game against Texas, a reporter asked Saban how he addressed the possibility of a “Horns Down” penalty against the Longhorns. Big 12 commissioner Greg Burks had confirmed the hand gesture mocking Texas’ own signature gesture would continue to be a taunting penalty earlier in the… Source link

A former television reporter for the Atlanta Braves is recovering after she was hit during another Major League Baseball game earlier this week. A 95 mph line drive struck Kelsey Wingert in the head during Monday night’s game between her current team the Colorado Rockies and the San Francisco Giants. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] The Giants’ Austin Slater hit a foul ball off Rockies pitcher Daniel Bard in the ninth inning. The ball hit Wingert where she was… Source link

John Clayton was an ESPN mainstay. (Photo by Kirby Lee/Getty Images) John Clayton, a fixture on ESPN’s “SportsCenter” for years, has died, a collection of his colleagues confirmed Friday. He was 67. Throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, it was hard to turn on SportsCenter or any of ESPN’s NFL shows without seeing Clayton and his familiar background pop up to discuss the biggest football story of the day. He started at the network in 1995 after a long career as a newspaper writer covering… Source link

Auston Matthews will call you out for asking a weird question. During his game against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday, the Toronto Maple Leafs star collided mouth-first into the crossbar and ended up losing a tooth. After the damage to his pearly whites, one reporter asked the 24-year-old about the incident and Matthews snapped back with a huge dose of sarcasm. “I saw the crossbar and I just decided I think it would be a great idea if I just put my face right through it,” he said with… Source link

Tom Brady has his New Year’s resolution ready for when the clock strikes midnight on Friday.  The Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback drew inspiration from an unlikely source for his intents, which he was asked about on his weekly “Let’s Go!” podcast with Jim Gray.  Gray brought up the topic by noting the answer by Brady’s former coach, the New England Patriots‘ Bill Belichick, that swept through social media. Following the Patriots’ 33-21 loss to the Buffalo Bills on Sunday, Belichick was asked… Source link

A view of a sign above the entrance of the Google office, ahead of presentation of the detailed investment plan for Germany, in Berlin, Germany, August 31, 2021. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse Sept 9 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google (GOOGL.O)is facing a renewed EU antitrust investigation into whether it may have forced device manufacturers to use Google Assistant as the default voice assistant on Android devices, an MLex reporter tweeted on Thursday. The latest investigation comes amid concerns of… Source link

Tension between President Joe Biden and tech giant Facebook (FB) stands at a fever pitch, even after Biden on Monday walked back earlier remarks accusing social media platforms of facilitating the spread of vaccine misinformation and contributing to U.S. deaths from COVID-19, New York Times technology reporter Cecilia Kang told Yahoo Finance on Monday. “It felt like he was actually retreating a little bit — but the frustration and tension right now between the White House and Facebook still… Source link

CBS 62 weather reporter April Moss made the bombshell announcement in the middle of the weekend weather forecast. Screengrab/CBS 62 April Moss, a CBS affiliate journalist who paused her weather report to say she’s talking to Project Veritas, has lost her job. The station told Insider that Moss objected to its policies on COVID testing and mask-wearing. Last week Fox 26 reporter Ivory Hecker lost her job after interrupting a broadcast to claim she was being muzzled by the network. Visit Insider’s… Source link