Len Pasquarelli

{{Short description|American sportswriter}}

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Len Pasquarelli is an American sports writer and analyst with The Sports Xchange and a 25-year veteran of covering the National Football League (NFL).{{Cite web |last=Pasquarelli |first=Len |date=2012-07-16 |title=Pasquarelli: Short shelf life? RBs continue to rake in huge cont |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2012/07/16/pasquarelli-short-shelf-life-rbs-continue-to-rake-in-huge-cont/ |access-date=2024-07-17 |website=Chicago Tribune |language=en-US}} The Sports Xchange is a network of professional, accredited reporters and analysts who cover each team or sport full-time.

Prior to joining the Sports Xchange, he wrote for ESPN.com {{Cite web |last=Rosenthal |first=Gregg |date=August 15, 2010 |title=Len Pasquarelli moves on, moves out of ESPN |url=https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/len-pasquarelli-moves-on-moves-out-of-espn |access-date=July 17, 2024 |website=NBC Sports |language=en-US}} starting in 2001 and was a frequent contributor to the other ESPN outlets, including SportsCenter, ESPNEWS, ESPN Radio and ESPN The Magazine. Before ESPN, Pasquarelli served as a senior writer for CBS SportsLine.com. He has also covered the NFL for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution from 1989 to 1999, the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel from 1985 to 1989, Pro Football Weekly from 1982 to 1985, and Pittsburgh Steelers Weekly from 1978 to 1982.

Pasquarelli is a member of the Pro Football Writers of America and has twice won national awards as the Best NFL Reporter of the Year. He also has won several writing awards, including an Associated Press Deadline Sports Reporting Award in 1988.

Pasquarelli has been on the committee that selects inductees for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. During the annual selection meeting on February 2, 2008, he fell ill and was taken to an area hospital. The following day he had quintuple bypass surgery.

{{cite web |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/peter_king/02/04/Giants/3.html |title=SI.com - Writers - MMQB (Cont.) - Monday February 4, 2008 1:17PM |accessdate=February 4, 2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080207120930/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/peter_king/02/04/Giants/3.html |archivedate=February 7, 2008 }} While in rehabilitation for the bypass surgery, he began to experience new symptoms which were later diagnosed as Guillain–Barré syndrome. He was named the 2008 recipient of the Dick McCann Memorial Award.{{cite web |title=Pasquarelli: 'I am proud and humbled' | website=ESPN.com | date=2008-08-02 | url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/halloffame08/news/story?id=3516122 | access-date=2025-02-01}}

Pasquarelli is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania native and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1972. He currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia.