1. Michael Darrow Greenberg was born on August 6,1967 and is an American television anchor, television show host, radio show host for ESPN and ABC, and novelist.
19 Facts About Mike Greenberg
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Mike Greenberg has anchored ESPN's morning show Get Up since 2018, and has anchored NBA coverage on NBA Countdown, along with NFL coverage on Sunday NFL Countdown.
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Mike Greenberg was born to a Jewish family in New York, New York, and graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1985.
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In 1989, Mike Greenberg graduated from Northwestern University, where he joined the Theta Chi fraternity, and started work as a sports anchor and reporter at WMAQ-AM in Chicago.
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Mike Greenberg left WMAQ in 1992 to work for WSCR-Radio as a reporter and talk show host.
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Mike Greenberg left Chicago in September 1996 for ESPN, where he became one of the first hosts of ESPNEWS when it began broadcasting in November of that year.
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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.
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Mike Greenberg agreed, with the understanding that he would continue anchoring SportsCenter on a regular basis.
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Mike Greenberg, believing picks required a sort of integrity, insisted that any such entrant be required to enter only one "Sheet of Integrity".
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The first year, Mike Greenberg won and Golic had to have an eyebrow wax on the air.
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The next two years, Golic won, and Mike Greenberg had to wear the University of Notre Dame Leprechaun mascot costume on the air, the second time on the Notre Dame campus.
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Mike Greenberg received advice about milking a cow from ESPN baseball analyst Buster Olney, who grew up on a dairy farm.
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Mike Greenberg returned to ESPN Radio with a new show, called Greeny.
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On March 7,2006, Mike 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.
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Mike Greenberg released a novel entitled All You Could Ask For in 2013.
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Mike Greenberg released the novel My Father's Wives in January 2015.
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Mike Greenberg appeared to refer to Martin Luther King Day as "Martin Luther Coon Day".
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Mike Greenberg immediately "corrected" himself, and continued with the show as if nothing happened.
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Mike Greenberg later apologized through an ESPN statement for saying what appeared to be a racial slur.