Chris Mortensen, an award-winning sportswriter who in 1991 moved to ESPN, where he pioneered the role of the N.F.L. insider reporting for various programs on trades, free agent signings, injuries, retirements and scandals, died on Sunday. He was 72.
In 1988, as a sportswriter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Mr. Mortensen won a George Polk Award, one of journalism's top prizes, for investigative work, becoming the first sportswriter to do so since Red Smith receive that honor in 1951.
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