Chris Dufresne
Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).
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The women’s Olympic Alpine combined event today got more interesting when it was announced Thursday that American Lindsey Kildow and Croatian Janica Kostelic probably would race in the event.
March 18, 2019
Usually in ski racing, the important numbers are first, second and third.
March 18, 2019
Arnold Palmer, the son of a Pennsylvania golf-course greens keeper who combined movie-star magnetism, go-for-broke daring and the nascent power of television to become a seven-time professional major tournament champion and the sport’s first international corporate icon, died Sunday.
Sept. 25, 2016
Pat Summitt, the farm girl from Tennessee who overcame self-consciousness and an overbearing father to become one of the greatest basketball coaches of any gender or generation, died Tuesday after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease, according to a statement from her son, Tyler Summitt.
June 28, 2016
My first recollection of the Los Angeles Times is my dad parking his delivery truck outside our house whenever he had a drop-off in La Habra.
Dec. 8, 2015
If you wanted suspense on Sunday you were better off renting “Rear Window” by Alfred Hitchcock.
Dec. 6, 2015
The rest of the major bowl pairings are now set, highlighted by Stanford and Iowa meeting in the Rose Bowl.
Dec. 6, 2015
Controversy has shrouded college football for as long as it has been played.
Dec. 6, 2015
Stanford won the Pac-12 Conference title on a Saturday night when sophomore tailback Christian McCaffrey shattered the single-season record for all-purpose yards.
Dec. 5, 2015
Here is the strangest part about Saturday’s final push toward the College Football Playoff: the only lock among the four currently atop the ranking isn’t either of the two unbeaten teams, nor the one that recently defeated defending national champion Ohio State.
Dec. 4, 2015