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 for both Notre Dame and
in the NFL. The NFL
website lists him as and .
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.
Playing career
Golic attended St. Joseph high school in Cleveland,
Ohio.
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. Golic admitted to taking steroids
briefly while recovering from an injury. 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
Life after retirement
Broadcasting career
During his five 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. Prior to joining ESPN, Golic was a
commentator for the now-defunct women's professional wrestling
organization
Gorgeous
Ladies of Wrestling.
Golic currently co-hosts
Mike and Mike in the
Morning with
Mike Greenberg
on
ESPN Radio and
ESPN2.
Other appearances
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.
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. Mike also appeared with Mike Greenberg on the TV series
Guiding Light in 2008.
Personal life
Golic's
older brother is Bob Golic, who also
played at Notre Dame, and is multi-time NFL All-Pro nose tackle who
is a talk radio host Monday through
Saturday on WNIR-FM in Akron, Ohio
and is a co-host of the Cleveland Browns television
pre-game and post-game shows that air Sundays on CBS affiliate
WOIO-TV. Mike and Bob appeared with older brother,
Greg, on the May 28, 2009 of Mike and Mike in the Morning
broadcast from Progressive
Field
in Cleveland, wherein their father, Lou Golic, also
made a brief guest appearance.
Golic currently
endorses ESPN College Pick'Em for
Dr.
Pepper and the
Nutrisystem
program, with which he has lost over 50 pounds.
Mike
resides in Avon,
CT
, approximately 12 miles from ESPN
headquarters. 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. The next season his other son Jake also
committed to Notre Dame. Mike and wife Christine also have a
daughter Sydney who is a swimmer.
References
- http://www.rotfeldproductions.com/lighterside/
- NutriSystem - Success Stories
-
http://www.huliq.com/56174/jake-golic-becomes-notre-dame039s-1st-2009-commitment
-
http://jgwebblogs.typepad.com/notre_dame/2008/04/more-from-jake.html
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