Michael Darrow "Mike" Greenberg is a television anchor, television show host, and radio host
for ESPN and ABC.
At ESPN, he hosts the weekday evening, most often Monday, SportsCenter and ESPN Radio's
Mike & Mike show with Mike Golic.
At sister network ABC, he was the host of the now cancelled quiz show Duel.
As of 2011, he co-hosts the 6 PM Eastern Monday SportsCenter editions during the National
Football League season with Golic.
Early life and career Greenberg was born to a Jewish family in New
York, New York, and graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1985.
In 1989, Greenberg graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University,
where he joined the Theta Chi Fraternity, and started work as a sports anchor and reporter
at WMAQ-AM in Chicago.
He left WMAQ in 1992 to work for WSCR-Radio as a reporter and talk show host.
From 1993 to 1995, he also wrote a weekly syndicated column for the California-based
Copley News Service.
In 1994, he added reporting for SportsChannel Chicago to his résumé.
In 1995, he left SportsChannel Chicago to work at CLTV, becoming an anchor, reporter,
and host of a live call-in show.
He left Chicago for ESPN in September 1996, where he became one of the first hosts of
ESPNEWS when it began broadcasting in November of that year.
ESPN career In 1999, with ESPN Radio airing in just four
markets, Mike Greenberg was approached about returning to radio to be a part of a morning
drive-time show with Mike Golic as co-host.
Greenberg agreed, with the understanding that he would continue anchoring SportsCenter on
a regular basis.
On April 26, 2004, the show started a regular simulcast on ESPNEWS.
Because of their continued success, the duo moved to ESPN2 in January 2005.
One of the most popular segments of the entire year on Mike & Mike is the annual "Sheet of
Integrity" wager, a bracket wager based on the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament and the
massive ESPN.com bracket contest.
The bet originated after Mike Golic told of how he would enter a massive number of sheets
into different pools to win the money involved in the pool.
Greenberg, believing picks required a sort of integrity, insisted that any such entrant
be required to enter only one "Sheet of Integrity".
Golic would select one of his dozens of sheets against Greenberg, with the loser having to
perform a humiliating stunt, usually on the air.
The first year, Greenberg won and Golic had to have an eyebrow wax on the air.
The next two years, Golic won, and Greenberg had to wear the University of Notre Dame Leprechaun
mascot costume on the air, the second time on the Notre Dame campus.
In the 2007 competition Greenberg, an admitted die-hard New York Jets' fan, agreed to wear
a New England Patriots' jersey to a Jets' game and to milk a cow live on-air.
Greenberg received advice about milking a cow from ESPN baseball analyst Buster Olney,
who grew up on a dairy farm.
Other television Duel
Greenberg hosted the ABC game show Duel.
The week-long six-episode special premiered on December 17, 2007, and ended on December
23, 2007.
The show was renewed, and premiered on April 4, 2008.
Guiding Light On February 20, 2008, Greenberg appeared,
along with his radio partner Mike Golic, on the soap opera Guiding Light as reported on
ESPNradio.com.
LIVE!
with Kelly On April 18, 2012 Greenberg co-hosted Live!
with Kelly.
Books On March 7, 2006, Greenberg released his first
book entitled Why My Wife Thinks I'm An Idiot: The Life and Times of a Sportscaster Dad,
which reached 14th on the New York Times Bestseller list and was nominated in the 2006 Quill Awards
for best sports book.
In April 2010, Greenberg, along with co-host Mike Golic, released a book entitled Mike
and Mike's Rules for Sports and Life.
Along with the release, the two Mikes embarked on a 15-city book tour that included stops
in New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Dallas, Boston, and Tampa.
Greenberg released a novel entitled All You Could Ask For in 2013.
Personal Greenberg is a die-hard New York Jets, New
York Knicks and New York Yankees fan.
Mike Golic, his colleague on Mike & Mike, frequently refers to Greenberg as "Greeny."
Greenberg resides in Westport, Connecticut with his wife Stacy, daughter Nicole and son
Stephen.
See also Mike & Mike
References
External links Mike and Mike in the Morning
Biography on ESPN 103.3 FM Off Mikes – An Emmy winning animation series
set to the audio of Mike and Mike in the Morning Mike Greenberg ESPN Bio