2010 Partners' Dinner

Chris Mortensen
Award-Winning Journalist - ESPN

March 8th at The Peabody
Dinner at 7:00 p.m.

Regular Tickets: $125 per person

Premier Tickets: $150 per person
(includes reception with Chris at 6:30 p.m.)

To Purchase Tickets, Contact:
Teresa Wooldridge
Executive Assistant
Phone: (501) 758-3160 ext. 123
E-mail: twooldridge@cacmustangs.org

Chris Mortensen's Biography

One of the most recognizable journalists of the National Football League, Mortensen has enjoyed a highly-decorated career that has included employment for ESPN since 1991. Now the Senior NFL Analyst for the sporting network, he remains one of the most respected individuals in the business.

Amongst his many responsibilities for ESPN are frequent appearances on the network's NFL programming, including Sunday NFL Countdown, Monday Night Countdown, and coverage of the annual NFL Draft. Additionally, Mortensen contributes on SportsCenter and Outside the Lines, and is a co-host on a national NFL show offered on ESPN Radio.

Mortensen began his journalistic career as a reporter with the South Bay Daily Breeze in Southern California in 1969. Since then, he has worked for The Sporting News, Sport magazine, The National, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and CBS Sports’ NFL Today.

He is also the author of Playing for Keeps: How One Man Stopped the Mob from Sinking its Hooks into Pro Football.

During his career, Mortensen has received over 30 journalistic awards including the National Headliner Award for Investigative Reporting in 1978. He has additionally been nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes and was the first sportswriter since 1951 to receive the coveted George Polk Award for reporting in 1987.

Personal

A Los Angeles, native, Mortensen attended the journalism school at El Camino College in Los Angeles County, Calif., before serving a two-year stint in the army before being honorably discharged.

Residing in Bella Vista, Ark., with his wife of more than 25 years Micki, Mortensen has two children. Son Alex played quarterback at the University of Arkansas before signing a free agent deal with the NFL’s Tennessee Titans prior to the 2009 season. His daughter, Shannon DiSanto, is the mother of three children.