[2] Before CTV, he worked as a sports reporter for the English service of Al Jazeera, based out of Washington, DC, and out of Doha, Qatar.
[3] For Al Jazeera English, Brendan profiled two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash and also reported on NFL football, NHL hockey, curling, the U-S Open Tennis Championship, the 2007 Cricket World Cup, the 2007 America's Cup yacht racing, the 2007 Pan American Games in Brazil, the 2007 World Anti-Doping Conference in Madrid and the humanitarian sports group Right to Play.
In 2008, he did stories on Turkish NBA star, Hedo Türkoğlu, covered the Davis Cup Tennis Finals in Argentina, reported from the Super Bowl in Phoenix, profiled Indycar Racing driver Danica Patrick, South Korean golfers on the LPGA Tour, and produced a series of pre-Olympic stories on athletes and teams headed to Beijing.
Connor attended Queen's University, where he studied English Literature, and became involved with broadcasting at CKLC radio, a local Kingston station.
He has also written two books, produced a documentary on ski-racing and taught a graduate program in broadcast journalism at Sheridan College, outside Toronto.