Brendan Connor

Brendan Connor is a Canadian sports journalist for Al Jazeera English TV. Now based in Washington, DC, he covers sports in the Americas.

Connor attended Queen's University, where he became involved with broadcasting at CKLC radio, a local Kingston station. He is a veteran broadcaster with over 20 years of experience including roles in sports and news with Canada’s CBC Television, CBC Newsworld, CBC Radio CTV and TSN. He has an extensive and varied career, that includes coverage of various Olympics for TV, radio and web outlets. He has also written two sports books, produced a documentary on ski-racing and taught a graduate program in broadcast journalism at Sheridan College, outside Toronto. The major sports events Connor has covered include: The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games (for the IOC's Olympic News Channel) the 2004 Olympics in Athens (CBC Newsworld), the 2000 Sydney Olympics (CBC.ca), 1988 Olympics in Seoul (CBC Radio), the 1990 New Zealand Commonwealth Games, the Stanley Cup Finals, the World Series, the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, etc..

For Al Jazeera English, he contributes to a show called "Sportsworld," where he has profiled two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash as well as reporting on American football, ice 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 has done stories on Turkish NBA star, Hedo Turkoglu, of the Orlando Magic, reported from the Super Bowl in Phoenix, covered tennis from the Sony Ericcson tournament in Miami, profiled Indy Racing and 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 was born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario, where his father Michael Connor was a longtime local news anchor on CKSO-TV. [ [http://www.northernlife.ca/news/LocalNews/2006/12-01-06-broadcasterTOP.asp?NLStory=12-01-06-broadcasterTOP "Broadcaster follows in dad’s footsteps"] , "Northern Life", December 1, 2006.]

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* [http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E700142E-BF99-4D36-ADCD-87A3B90C086C.htm Al Jazeera English biography]
* [http://www.cbcwatch.ca/?q=node/view/1890 Brendan Connor departs CBC to join Al Jazeera English]