Chris Dufresne
Christopher John Dufresne (April 11, 1958 – May 25, 2020)
Biography
Chris was born in Fullerton, California, and grew up in La Habra. He graduated from California State University, Fullerton in 1981 with a degree in journalism. In 1976, after high school, Dufresne got a job at the Los Angeles Times, where his father worked in the transportation department for 37 years. Dufresne started in the loading docks, then became a clerk covering prep sports at the Los Angeles Times Orange County bureau in 1981.[3] He covered college football for The Times until 2015, when he accepted a buyout.[4]
Dufresne continued to write and in 2016 found a new home for his alter ego, Rankman. He and three other award-winning sports writers, Tony Barnhart, Mark Blaudschun and Herb Gould co-founded TMGcollegesports.com, a national college football and basketball website.
On Monday evening, May 25, 2020, the 62 year-old Dufresne died of unknown causes but was awaiting results of a possible recurrence of melanoma.[1][5]
References
- ^ a b Farmer, Sam (May 27, 2020). "Chris Dufresne, award-winning L.A. Times sportswriter, dies at 62". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
- ^ "Chris Dufresne". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 11, 2017.
- ^ Dufresne, Chris (December 9, 2015). "On College Football: For 40 years, this guy delivered the goods". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 11, 2017.
- ^ "Longtime LA Times sportswriter Chris Dufresne dies at 62". Los Angeles Daily News. May 27, 2020. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
- ^ Blaudschun, Mark (May 26, 2020). "A JERSEY GUY: Rankman was No. 1". si.com. TMG Sports. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
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