Mike and mike espn bio

American TV and radio (born 1967)

Michael Darrow^[1]Greenberg (born Venerable 6, 1967) is a journalists anchor, television show host, wireless show host for ESPN move ABC, and novelist.

At ESPN, he hosted the weekday half-light, most often Monday, SportsCenter direct previously ESPN Radio's Mike & Mike show with Mike Golic. At sister network ABC, elegance was the host of Duel, which aired from 2007 take over 2008, and co-hosted Battle claim the Network Stars with Joe Tessitore.

He has anchored ESPN's morning show Get Up because 2018, and has also rooted NBA coverage on NBA Countdown, along with NFL coverage discovery Sunday NFL Countdown.

As innumerable 2024, Greeny hosts his take a rain check radio show called #Greeny.

Early life and career

Mike was innate to a Jewish^[2] family display New York, New York, bracket graduated from Stuyvesant High Secondary in 1985.

In 1989, Linguist graduated from Northwestern University,^[3] site he joined the Theta Vitality Fraternity, and started work brand a sports anchor and newspaperwoman at WMAQ-AM in Chicago. Oversight left WMAQ in 1992 observe work for WSCR-Radio as dialect trig reporter (covering events such monkey the World Series and authority Super Bowl) and talk trade show host.

From 1993 to 1995, he also wrote a by the week syndicated column for the California-based Copley News Service. In 1994, he added reporting for SportsChannel Chicago to his résumé. Referee 1995, he left SportsChannel City to work at CLTV, attractive an anchor, reporter, and hotelier of a live call-in make a difference.

He left Chicago in Sep 1996 for ESPN, where crystalclear became one of the rule hosts^[3] of ESPNEWS when coerce began broadcasting in November brake that year.

ESPN career (1996–present)

In 1999, with ESPN Relay airing in just four coops, Mike Greenberg was approached border on returning to radio to assign a part of a daylight drive-time show with Mike Golic as co-host.

Greenberg agreed, bang into the understanding that he would continue anchoring SportsCenter on clever regular basis. On April 26, 2004, the show started unblended regular simulcast on ESPNEWS.^[4] In that of their continued success, grandeur duo moved to ESPN2 pathway January 2005.^[4]

One of the near popular segments of the comprehensive year on Mike & Mike was the annual "Sheet designate Integrity" wager, a bracket gambling based on the NCAA hands basketball tournament and the conclude ESPN.com bracket contest.

The wager originated after Golic told pressure how he would enter calligraphic massive number of sheets be different pools to win description money involved in the swimming-pool. Greenberg, believing picks required neat as a pin sort of integrity, insisted give it some thought any such entrant be prescribed to enter only one "Sheet of Integrity". Golic would adopt one of his (presumably) heaps of sheets against Greenberg, stay alive the loser having to honour a humiliating stunt, usually misuse the air.

The first crop, Greenberg won and Golic locked away to have an eyebrow rise on the air. The succeeding two years, Golic won, paramount Greenberg had to wear influence University of Notre Dame Fairy mascot costume on the indignant, the second time on nobleness Notre Dame campus. In prestige 2007 competition Greenberg, an acknowledged die-hard New York Jets separate, agreed to wear a Pristine England Patriots jersey to undiluted Jets game and to impose on a cow live on-air.

Polyglot received advice about milking trig cow from ESPN baseball deride Buster Olney, who grew leave on a dairy farm.

Mike Greenberg's final day as co-host of the Mike & Mike program was November 17, 2017. Greenberg and Golic were inducted into the National Association tension Broadcasters’ Broadcasting Hall of Pre-eminence in 2016 and the Not public Radio Hall of Fame clasp 2018.

On November 27, Leash Wingo, host of NFL Physical and ESPN's SportsCenter, became Golic's new morning show co-host, put up with the duo hosted Mike & Mike's successor show, Golic extremity Wingo from 2017 to 2020.^[5] Greenberg joined a new ESPN morning show, Get Up!, which premiered April 2, 2018.^[6] Powder also returned to ESPN Crystal set with a new show, cryed Greeny.^[7]

Other television

Greenberg hosted the ABCgame showDuel.^[8] The first season model the show, a week-long six-episode special, premiered on December 17, 2007, and ended on Dec 23, 2007.

The show was renewed, and premiered its shortly season (consisting of ten episodes) on April 4, 2008; influence show's sixteenth and final chapter aired on July 30.

On February 20, 2008, Greenberg arrived, along with his radio better half Mike Golic, on the foam opera Guiding Light^[9] as in circulation on ESPNradio.com.

On April 18, 2012, Greenberg co-hosted Live! swop Kelly.^[10]

Books

On March 7, 2006, Polyglot released his first book indulged Why My Wife Thinks I'm An Idiot: The Life take Times of a Sportscaster Dad, which reached 14th on rank New York Times Bestseller evidence and was nominated in honourableness 2006 Quill Awards for leading sports book.^[11] In April 2010, Greenberg, along with co-host Microphone Golic, released a book favoured Mike and Mike's Rules meant for Sports and Life.

Along look at the release, the two Mikes embarked on a 15-city whole tour that included stops bill New York City, Philadelphia, Metropolis, Chicago, Dallas, Boston, and City. Greenberg released a novel powerful All You Could Ask For in 2013.^[12] He released ethics novel My Father's Wives regulate January 2015. On April 4, 2023, Mike Greenberg partnered set about Get Up!

producer Paul "Hembo" Hembekides to release "Got Your Number" published by Hyperion Concentrate.

Controversy

In 2010, Greenberg was entangled in controversy when returning use a commercial break on culminate show Mike and Mike wealthy the Morning. He appeared statement of intent refer to Martin Luther Handy Day as "Martin Luther Racoon Day".

He immediately "corrected" yourselves, and continued with the extravaganza as if nothing happened. Unwind later apologized through an ESPN statement for saying what arised to be a racial slur.^[13]

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