Mike Greenberg Biography
Michael Robinette Greenberg popular as Mike Greenberg is a famous television anchor, television show host, radio show host for ESPN and ABC, and novelist. At ESPN, Greenberg hosted the weekday evening, most often Monday, SportsCenter and previously ESPN Radio’s Mike & Mike show with Mike Golic. At si
ster network ABC, he was the host of Duel, which aired from 2007 to 2008, and co-hosted Battle of the Network Stars alongside Joe Tessitore. Greenberg has anchored ESPN’s morning program Get Up since 2018 and also anchors NBA coverage on NBA Countdown.
After graduating from Northwestern University, he began to work as a sports anchor and reporter at WMAQ-AM in Chicago. Greenberg left WMAQ in 1992 to work for WSCR-Radio as a reporter and talk show host. He also wrote a weekly syndicated column for the California-based Copley News Service from 1993 to 1995. In 1994, Greenberg added reporting for SportsChannel Chicago to his resume.
He then left SportsChannel Chicago in 1995 to work at CLTV, becoming an anchor, reporter, and host of a live call-in show. Greenberg left Chicago for ESPN in September 1996, where he became one of the first hosts of ESPNEWS when it started broadcasting in November of the same year.
Mike Greenberg Age
Michael Robinette Greenberg was born on August 6, 1967, in New York, New York, United States, and is aged 55 years as of 2022. He shares his birthday with popular people including Michelle Yeoh, Nessa Barrett, Geri Halliwell, Vera Farmiga, Charlotte McKinney, Julie Snyder, Marisa Miller, and many others.
Mike Greenberg Family
Michael Robinette Greenberg was born in New York, New York to a Jewish family, of Arnold Greenberg and Harriet Greenberg. His father was a lawyer and he died in 2016, while his mother was a public school teacher. Not much is revealed about his family and parents to the media.
Mike Greenberg Siblings
Greenberg was born to his parents among two children in the family. He has one sibling, named Douglas Greenberg, who is a partner in Wardrobe Storage and Valet company.
Mike Greenberg Education
Greenberg attended Stuyvesant High School in New York, where he graduated in 1985. He then joined Northwestern University, Medill School of Journalism, where he joined the Theta Chi Fraternity, and graduated with a B.S. in 1989
Mike Greenberg Wife
Greenberg is currently married to his longtime partner and wife Stacy Greenberg, a marketer, from 1997 to the present. The couple is happily married with two children together in their marriage and resides in New York City and Connecticut.
Mike Greenberg Children
Greenberg and his sweetheart have two children together. The couple has one daughter named Nicole Greenberg, born in 2000, and a son named Stephen Greenberg, born in 2002. Nicole is very active on Instagram and has 5622 followers.
Mike Greenberg Height and Weight
Greenberg has a well-built, muscular, and physically fit body with a height of 1.8 m (5 ft 10 in) and a weight of 176 lbs (80 kg).
Mike Greenberg ESPN Career (1996-present)
In 1999, Greenberg was approached about returning to radio as a part of a morning drive-time show with Mike Golic as co-host with ESPN Radio airing in just 4 markets. He agreed, with the understanding that he would go on anchoring SportsCenter on a regular basis. The show then began a regular simulcast on ESPNEWS on April 26, 2004. Due to their continued success, the pair moved to ESPN2 in January 2005.
2006-2016
One of the most famous segments of the whole year on Mike & Mike was 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 following Golic telling of how he would enter a massive number of sheets into different pools to win the money involved in the pool. Mike believing picks required a sort of integrity, insisted that any such entrant be required to enter only 1 ”Sheet of Integrity”. Golic would select one of his dozens of sheets against Mike, with the loser having a humiliating stunt, usually on the air. The first year, Greenberg won and Golic had to have an eyebrow wax on the air.
In the following two years, Golic won and Mike had to wear the University of Notre Dame Leprechaun mascot costume on the air, the 2nd time on the Notre Dame campus. In the 2007 competition, Mike 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. He got advice about milking a cow from ESPN baseball analyst Buster Olney, who grew up on a dairy farm.
2017-present
Greenberg’s last day as co-host of the Mike & Mike show was November 17, 2017. Trey Wingo, the host of NFL Live and ESPN’s SportsCenter, became Golic’s new morning show co-host on November 27. The pair hosted Mike & Mike’s successor program, Golic and Wingo from 2017 to 2020. Mike then joined a new ESPN morning program, Get Up!, which premiered on April 2, 2018. He also went back to ESPN Radio with a new program, called Greeny.
Mike Greenberg’s Other Television Work
Mike hosted the ABC game show Duel. The first season, a week-long six-episode special, premiered on December 17, 2007, and concluded on December 23, 2007. The program was renewed and premiered its second season (comprising ten episodes) on April 4, 2008. On July 30, the show’s 16th and last episode aired. On February 20, 2008, he appeared together with his radio partner Mike Golic, on the soap opera Guiding Light as reported on ESPNradio.com. He also co-hosted Live! with Kelly on April 18, 2012.
Mike Greenberg Books
Mike launched his first book Why My Wife Thinks I’m An Idiot: The Life and Times of a Sportscaster Dad on March 7, 2006. The book reached 14th on the New York Times Bestseller list and was nominated in the 2006 Quill Awards for Best Sportsbook. He together with co-host Mike Golic, launched a book called Mike and Mike’s Rules for Sports and Life in April 2010. Together with