Mike Golic
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| Mike Golic | |
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| Position(s): Defensive tackle |
Jersey #(s): 90 |
| Born: December 12, 1962 Willowick, Ohio |
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| Year(s): 1986–1993 | |
| NFL Draft: 1985 / Round: 10 / Pick: 255 | |
| College: Notre Dame | |
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| Career Stats | |
| Sacks | 11.5 |
| Interceptions | 3 |
| Games | 115 |
| Stats at pro-football-reference.com | |
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Michael Louis "Mike" Golic (born December 12, 1962 in Willowick, Ohio), is a co-host of ESPN Radio's Mike and Mike in the Morning and a former defensive lineman in the NFL. The NFL website lists him as 6'5" and 265 lbs.
He also serves as an analyst for ESPN and ESPN2's NFL studio programming, as well as for the networks' college football game coverage. Golic joined ESPN in 1995 as an NFL reporter/analyst for Sunday NFL Countdown. Since then he has worked as the color commentator for the Arena Football League (1996-98, 2007-present) and the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars pre-season games (1995-98). In 1998, Golic began serving as college football analyst for ESPN and ABC, and was an original analyst for NFL 2Night (now and better known as NFL Live), the five-night-per-week news and information program on ESPN2.
Golic is also the host of the long running syndicated sports highlights, bloopers and gag fest called The Lighter Side of Sports.
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[edit] Playing career
Golic is a 1985 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, majoring in finance and management. He served as captain of the football team during his senior season and also wrestled for the Irish.
Before working for ESPN, Golic was a nine-year NFL veteran, playing defensive tackle for the Houston Oilers, Philadelphia Eagles, and Miami Dolphins and recorded 11.5 sacks and 3 interceptions in his career. As his talk-show partner Mike Greenberg likes to point out, on each of Golic's three career picks, he was tackled by the quarterback. Golic was selected in the tenth round in the 1985 draft, taken 255th overall by the Houston Oilers. During his seven years in Philadelphia, he began his television career with a weekly segment on the Randall Cunningham Show. He received a Mid-Atlantic Region Emmy Award for his feature Golic's Got It.
[edit] Broadcasting career and other ventures
Golic currently co-hosts Mike and Mike in the Morning with Mike Greenberg on ESPN Radio and ESPN2. Both Golic and Greenberg are protagonists of an Emmy winning cartoon series on ESPN.com produced by Animax Entertainment that derives from the radio show content.[citation needed]
Prior to ESPN, Golic was a commentator for the now-defunct women's professional wrestling organization G.L.O.W. (Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling).
On January 16, 2007, ESPN announced that Golic along with Greenberg would be the network's lead broadcast team for The Arena Football League on ESPN including ArenaBowl XXI.
Golic is currently advertising ESPN College Pick'Em for Dr. Pepper and the Nutrisystem program, where he has lost over 50 pounds[1].
During the February 16, 2007 broadcast of Mike and Mike in the Morning (in which Golic had called off sick), Golic called in to the show and revealed that he and his family had possibly contracted salmonella from eating Peter Pan peanut butter. He also stated that he checked the jar and found the product code to start with "2111", which is the product code of the contaminated jars of peanut butter.[citation needed]
During the February 20, 2007 broadcast of Mike and Mike in the Morning, Golic's 17-year-old son Mike called in from Italy to reveal that he had verbally committed to play football at his father's alma mater, Notre Dame.[citation needed]
On April 27, it was announced Mike Golic will appear alongside football's greatest players in the upcoming PS3 and Xbox 360 game, All-Pro Football 2K8.
In November 2007 Golic admitted to using steroids during his NFL career. He claimed that his steroid use was limited to a few months during an off season to help recover from an injury. [2][3]
Mike resides in Avon, CT approximately 12 miles from ESPN.
Golic's brother is Bob Golic, who is also a talk radio host at WNIR-FM in Akron, Ohio.
Mike made an appearance on ESPN's mini-series Tilt. He can be seen during the final episode eating a donut at the buffet table.
[edit] Kornheiser controversy
On August 15, 2006's show, Mike Golic described Tony Kornheiser's appearance on the first Monday Night Football game on ESPN as "fine." Tony took offense to this comment and lashed out on Golic's comments on that day's Dan Patrick Show, saying, “I just want to wring Golic’s neck and hang him up over the back of a shower rod like a duck.”[4] Golic called in to the Dan Patrick show with his side of the story. Mike Golic claimed the next day he was never considered for the job and he meant no offense by the comment, but was just expressing his opinion on what he heard and saw. Golic said he did question how a person with no football experience would do as an analyst on Monday Night Football because of Dennis Miller's failure.[5] He also said he didn't think anything Tony said was "earth-shattering", but he thought Tony was much better than Miller.
[edit] References
- ^ NutriSystem® - Success Stories
- ^ Golic admits to steroid use during national radio show, Yahoo!, 2007-11-09, <http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Golic-admits-to-steroid-use-during-national-radi?urn=nfl,53112>. Retrieved on 16 November 2007
- ^ Schultz, Jeff (2007-11-13), Dunn does Falcons proud, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, <http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/sportscolumns/entries/2007/11/13/dunn_does_falco.html>. Retrieved on 16 November 2007
- ^ Elizabeth Newman (2006-08-17). Pardon this interruption (cont.). ESPN.
- ^ Jay Posner (2006-02-09). Al Michaels opts out of MNF. San Diego Union-Tribune.
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ NutriSystem® - Success Stories
- ^ Golic admits to steroid use during national radio show, Yahoo!, 2007-11-09, <http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Golic-admits-to-steroid-use-during-national-radi?urn=nfl,53112>. Retrieved on 16 November 2007
- ^ Schultz, Jeff (2007-11-13), Dunn does Falcons proud, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, <http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/sportscolumns/entries/2007/11/13/dunn_does_falco.html>. Retrieved on 16 November 2007
- ^ Elizabeth Newman (2006-08-17). Pardon this interruption (cont.). ESPN.
- ^ Jay Posner (2006-02-09). Al Michaels opts out of MNF. San Diego Union-Tribune.
