Brendan Connor
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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 was involved with broadcasting at CFRC radio, the campus 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 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 programme in broadcast journalism at a Toronto college.
The major sports events Connor has covered include: The Olympic Games in Athens (2004), Sydney (2000), Seoul (1988), Calgary (Winter 1988), the 1990 New Zealand Commonwealth Games, the Stanley Cup Finals, the World Series, the Super Bowl, the NBA Draft, All-Star game and the Finals.
For Al Jazeera English, he contributes to a weekly program, Sportsworld, where he has profiled two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash as well as reporting on American football, ice hockey, curling, tennis, 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.
Connor was born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario, where his father Michael Connor was a longtime local news anchor on CKSO-TV. [1]
