RIP Chris Dufresne

MileHigh · May 26, 2020

LAT obit by Sam Farmer

Chris Dufresne, award-winning L.A. Times sportswriter, dies at 62

HanSenSE · May 26, 2020

WriteThinking · May 27, 2020

MileHigh said:
Holy ****, seriously? Wow. He was an incredibly gifted and talented writer. Soaked up everything he wrote in the LAT. Very, very sad to hear this.

My initial reaction and sentiments, exactly...

nickp · May 27, 2020

Awful news Chris Dufresne was one of the most insightful and funny writers covering college football

expendable · May 27, 2020

One of the all-time greats. I can’t add to what’s already been said, so I will, anyway. Whenever I’d read one of his stories, I’d quote Mitch Hedberg in my mind, “What happened to the Dufresnes?”

ChrisLong · May 27, 2020

expendable said:
One of the all-time greats. I can’t add to what’s already been said, so I will, anyway. Whenever I’d read one of his stories, I’d quote Mitch Hedberg in my mind, “What happened to the Dufresnes?”

I had a terrifying thought yesterday. I read the post on the Twitter thread about the guy who drove his car into a manure pond. I wrote: Andy Dufresne says, hold my beer.

I was thinking about it a few minutes later and I went back to make sure I wrote "Andy" and not my colleague "Chris." I did write Andy, so no big deal. I went back to the main board and see "RIP Chris Dufresne." It was an eerie, sad morning.