Christopher John Dufresne (April 11, 1958 – May 25, 2020)[1] was an American sports journalist who was the Los Angeles Times national college football and basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015.
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.
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.