Former LA Times sportswriter and columnist, and current TMG College Sports writer Chris Dufresne.
Former LA Times sportswriter and columnist, and current TMG College Sports writer Chris Dufresne.

Longtime LA Times sportswriterย Chris Dufresne was kind enough to sit down with Tucson Weekly’s resident sportswriter, Christopher Boan on Wednesday.

The two covered a wide variety of subjects, including the state of USC’s football team, the UCLA mens basketball coaching search, and what the state of the Pac-12 is at the moment.

Dufresne worked for the LA Times from 1981-2015, covering everything from the LA Rams to the Trojans and Bruins, while also serving as the Times’ college football and basketball columnist.

This article appears in Jan 24-30, 2019.

Christopher Boan is a cocksure smartass of a writer that mainly focuses on sports, music and the hellscape in-between. He's a four-time Arizona Newspaper Association Better Newspaper Award winner, and...