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American sports and entertainment reporter
Chris Connelly
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Born
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Education
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Title
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Chris Connelly
(born 1957) is an American sports and entertainment reporter who currently works for
ESPN
as a contributor to its
E:60
newsmagazine. He was also the interim editor-in-chief of
Grantland.com
, replacing
Bill Simmons
, before ESPN shuttered the site in October 2015.
Connelly joined ESPN in 2001 to host the daily interview program
Unscripted with Chris Connelly
, designed to be a more contemporary version of the long-running
Up Close
interview show which previously occupied the 5PM ET timeslot. The show, which premiered on the same day as
Pardon the Interruption
, lasted only a few months before being replaced by an early
SportsCenter
and eventually
Around the Horn
.
Since the cancellation of
Unscripted
, Connelly has reported and narrated the long-form human interest reports that air on
SportsCenter
on weekends. Most notably, he annually does a one-week series called "My Wish" involving athletes fulfilling kids'
Make a Wish Foundation
wishes. Connelly also helped
ABC
and ESPN cover the
Scripps National Spelling Bee
in 2006; he conducted interviews with finalists who had just been eliminated.
Before joining ESPN, Connelly worked for
Rolling Stone
magazine
as a music critic. During the 1980s he also served as Special Music Correspondent for
Good Morning America
, which involved interviewing the music stars of the day. Next Connelly spent thirteen years at
MTV
(1988–2001). He hosted the pre-shows for the
MTV Movie Awards
and prior to that,
The Big Picture
, a weekly show with features and movie reviews. He was also an editor and reporter for
Premiere
magazine, eventually becoming editor-in-chief. After six months however, Connelly resigned in a dispute over journalistic integrity after the owner of the magazine reportedly asked that he quash a story that unfavorably portrayed a business associate.
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From 2000 to 2007
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he was part of the ensemble of hosts for the
Academy Awards
preshow. All of these assignments were for
ABC
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