Mike and Mike in the Morning is a sports talk radio show hosted by Mike Golic and Mike Greenberg (aka "Greeny") and broadcast on ESPN Radio from 6:00 am ET to 10:00 am ET, Monday through Friday. Since 2006, the show is also simulcast on ESPN2 - with cameras inside the show's studio - following two years of simulcasts on ESPNEWS. On May 7, 2007, the show moved from its longtime radio booth home to the TV studio used for Sunday NFL Countdown and Baseball Tonight, and began broadcasting in high-definition. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... // Sports radio (or sports talk radio) is a radio format devoted entirely to discussion and broadcasting of sporting events. ... Mike Greenberg (born August 6, 1967 in New York City, New York) is a television anchor and radio host for ESPN. At ESPN, he hosts the weekday evening SportsCenter and ESPN Radios Mike and Mike in the Morning show with Mike Golic. ... Michael Mike Golic (born December 12, 1962 in Cleveland, Ohio), is a co-host of ESPN Radios Mike and Mike in the Morning and a former defensive lineman in the NFL. He also serves as an analyst for ESPN and ESPN2s NFL studio programming, as well as for... ESPN Radio is a national sports radio network based in the United States. ... ESPN2 debuted on October 1, 1993, as a sister station of ESPN. Nicknamed the deuce, ESPN2 was to be branded as a network for a younger generation of sports fans featuring edgier graphics as well as extreme sports like motocross, snowboarding, and BMX racing. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... ESPNEWS (word origin: grammatical blend of ESPN and news), launched on November 1, 1996, is a 24-hour-a-day sports news television channel produced by the sports network ESPN. It airs news, highlights, press conferences, and commentary by analysts all in relation to sports. ... is the 285th day of the year (286th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... The Herd with Colin Cowherd is a syndicated sports talk radio show hosted by Colin Cowherd and broadcast on ESPN Radio from Bristol, Connecticut. ... ESPN First Take, is a new morning show on ESPN2 that will be replacing ESPN2s Cold Pizza beginning May 7, 2007. ... Michael Mike Golic (born December 12, 1962 in Cleveland, Ohio), is a co-host of ESPN Radios Mike and Mike in the Morning and a former defensive lineman in the NFL. He also serves as an analyst for ESPN and ESPN2s NFL studio programming, as well as for... Mike Greenberg (born August 6, 1967 in New York City, New York) is a television anchor and radio host for ESPN. At ESPN, he hosts the weekday evening SportsCenter and ESPN Radios Mike and Mike in the Morning show with Mike Golic. ... ESPN Radio is a national sports radio network based in the United States. ... ESPN2 debuted on October 1, 1993, as a sister station of ESPN. Nicknamed the deuce, ESPN2 was to be branded as a network for a younger generation of sports fans featuring edgier graphics as well as extreme sports like motocross, snowboarding, and BMX racing. ... ESPNEWS (word origin: grammatical blend of ESPN and news), launched on November 1, 1996, is a 24-hour-a-day sports news television channel produced by the sports network ESPN. It airs news, highlights, press conferences, and commentary by analysts all in relation to sports. ... is the 127th day of the year (128th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... Sunday NFL Countdown logo Sunday NFL Countdown is a pregame show of all the NFL action for that week. ... Baseball Tonight is a Sports Emmy Award-winning program that airs on ESPN, and is the only nightly highlight show devoted to Major League Baseball. ... High-definition television (HDTV) means broadcast of television signals with a higher resolution than traditional formats (NTSC, SECAM, PAL) allow. ...

A daily "best-of" show airs daily on ESPN, and a weekly radio recap airs Saturday mornings from 6:00 to 7:00 AM ET. ESPN, formerly an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting and producing sports-related programming 24 hours a day. ...

On Nov. 20, Trey Wingo and Mark Schlereth appeared on the show and announced they will co-host the Mike and Mike Roast to be held on January 11 in Atlantic City at the House of Blues, with a portion of the proceeds to benefit the V Foundation Research for Cancer. Scheduled guests include: Wingo, Schlereth, comedian Frank Caliendo, actor Denis Leary, Dick Vitale.

Design

The show centers on an Odd Couple relationship between its hosts, and how it relates to their views on sports. The show's motto for all commercials on radio and television is: "What makes them different makes them great." Walter Matthau and Art Carney in the 1965 Broadway production The Odd Couple was a hit 1965 Broadway play by Neil Simon, followed by a successful film and television series, as well as other derivative works and spinoffs, many featuring one or more of the same actors. ...

Mike Greenberg is portrayed as a stereotypical nerd and metrosexual with a man-crush on New York Jets quarterback Chad Pennington (any mention of Pennington's name is usually punctuated by the "And Iiii.." from the final chorus of Whitney Houston's version of "I Will Always Love You.") Recently, Golic forced Greeny to "break up" with Pennington due to his being replaced as starter by Kellen Clemens. Meanwhile, former Notre Dame and NFL lineman Mike Golic is set up in the role of the tough and boisterous "man's man," a former pro athlete who likes nothing more than to eat and "tell it like it is." Although similarly to Greenberg's man-crush on Chad Pennington, recently Golic is portrayed to have a similar affection for Cleveland Browns Quarterback Brady Quinn (formerly of Notre Dame). Any mention of Quinn on the show is usually followed by a small sampling from Enrique Iglesias's song "Hero." For other uses, see Nerd (disambiguation). ... Metrosexual is a neologism generally applied to heterosexual men with a strong concern for their appearance, and who display many of the lifestyle tendencies of stereotypical gay men. ... Look up Limerence in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... City East Rutherford, New Jersey Other nicknames Gang Green, the Green and White, Jersey Jets Team colors Hunter green and white Head Coach Eric Mangini Owner Woody Johnson General manager Mike Tannenbaum League/Conference affiliations American Football League (1960-1969) Eastern Division (1960-1969) National Football League (1970–present) American... Navy quarterback Aaron Polanco sets up to throw. ... James Chadwick Chad Pennington [1](born June 26, 1976 in Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American football quarterback for the NFLs New York Jets. ... Whitney Elizabeth Houston (born August 9, 1963) is a six-time Grammy award winning, American R&B singer, soprano, pianist, actress, film producer, and former model. ... I Will Always Love You is a song written and originally performed by American country singer-songwriter Dolly Parton (first released as a single in 1974) and then most famously recorded by American pop/R&B singer Whitney Houston. ... Kellen Clemens is a current American Football quarterback for the New York Jets. ... The University of Notre Dame IPA: is a Catholic[4] institution located in Notre Dame, an unincorporated section of St. ... NFL redirects here. ... A lineman may be: In the electric power industry, a lineman is somebody who constructs and maintains electrical transmission and distribution lines. ... Browns redirects here. ... Navy quarterback Aaron Polanco sets up to throw. ... Brayden Tyler Brady Quinn (born October 27, 1984, Columbus, Ohio) to Robin and Ty Quinn. ... This article is about the singer/songwriter. ... Hero is a single released by Enrique Iglesias from his second English album Escape. ...

The former logo of Mike and Mike in the Morning until May 4, 2007.

Current regular guest hosts include Erik Kuselias and regular contributors Buster Olney, Mark Schlereth (aka "Stink", aka "Roc Hoover"), and Trey Wingo. Other regular contributors include Joe Theismann, Sean Salisbury, Peter Gammons, Bill Curry, Tim Kurkjian, Dana Jacobson, Dick Vitale, Steve Phillips, Tim Legler, and Jeremy Schaap. The show's producers, Liam Chapman and Curt "Joaquin" Kaplan, often contribute musical parodies and host the Saturday morning "Best-of" show. The ESPN Radio SportsCenter update anchors for the show are Bob Picozzi and Christine Lisi. When the TV simulcast began broadcasting in HD, the radio SportsCenters were no longer aired on ESPN2, replaced by live SportsCenter updates from new anchor Sage Steele. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1479x1217, 43 KB) Summary Mike and Mike in the morning logo License This is a logo of an organization, item, or event, and is protected by copyright and/or trademark. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1479x1217, 43 KB) Summary Mike and Mike in the morning logo License This is a logo of an organization, item, or event, and is protected by copyright and/or trademark. ... Erik Kuselias, with John Clayton and Rick Spielman at Super Bowl XL in Detroit, MI Erik Kuselias is the host of NASCAR Now on ESPN2. ... Buster Olney is currently a columnist for ESPN: The Magazine, ESPN.com, and was formerly lead Sports Editor at The New York Times. ... Mark Schlereth (born January 25, 1966 in Anchorage, Alaska) is a former American football player and current television sportscaster. ... Hal Chapman Wingo III or Trey Wingo is the co-host of ESPNs SportsCenter from time to time but is best known as host of NFL Live alongside football analysts Mark Schlereth, Sean Salisbury, Merrill Hoge, Mike Golic and Tom Jackson, among others. ... Joseph Robert Theismann (born September 9, 1949 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA), is a former American football quarterback in the NFL. He was born to an Austrian father, Joseph John Theismann and a Hungarian mother, Olga Tobias and was raised in South River, New Jersey. ... Richard Sean Salisbury (born March 9, 1963 in Long Beach, California) is an ESPN football analyst and former NFL and CFL quarterback. ... Peter Gammons (born April 9, 1945)[1][2]is a sportswriter, media personality and a National Baseball Hall of Fame honoree. ... Bill Curry (born October 21, 1942) is a former NFL football player and NCAA football coach. ... Tim Kurkjian, (born December 10, 1956) in Bethesda, Maryland. ... Dana Jacobson (born November 5, 1971) joined ESPN as an ESPNEWS anchor in December 2002 and soon became a regular anchor on the 6 p. ... Richard J. Dick Vitale, also known as Dickie V and Mr. ... Steve Francis Phillips (born on May 18, 1963) was the general manager of the New York Mets from 1997-2003. ... Timothy Eugene Tim Legler (born December 26, 1966 in Washington, D.C.) is an American, former professional basketball player in the NBA, and is a current ESPN analyst. ... Jeremy Schaap (b. ... ESPN Radio SportsCenter has sports updates three times an hour during key time slots by separate anchors. ... Sage Steele is a SportsCenter update anchor for two morning shows, Mike and Mike in the Morning and ESPN First Take (both on ESPN2). ...

The team of Greeny and Golic has also worked in other ESPN ventures, including a game show (ESPN Bowling Night), and coverage of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Beginning in 2007, they were the lead broadcast team for ESPN's coverage of the Arena Football League. It was announced in June 2007 that Greenberg and Golic would also call a National Football League game together for ESPN, broadcasting the second game of ESPN's Week 1 Monday Night Football doubleheader. The Scripps National Spelling Bee (formerly known as the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee and commonly referred to simply as the National Spelling Bee) is a highly competitive annual spelling bee run on a not-for-profit basis by The E. W. Scripps Company, held in the ballroom at the... The Arena Football League (AFL) was founded in 1987 as an American football indoor league. ... NFL redirects here. ... MNF redirects here. ...

Prior to Greenberg's arrival, the show was co-hosted by Golic and Tony Bruno; this pairing (which broadcast from 1995 to 1998) was entitled the Bruno-Golic Morning Show. Tony Bruno (born June 13, 1952) is nationally syndicated sports radio talk show host. ...

Segments

Greenberg and Golic on new HD set.

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Daily

• Grill Golic: Listeners call in to ask questions directed at Mike Golic. The questions usually revolve around football. This is the only time (generally) that listeners' calls are heard on the air.
• Mike Golic's News of the Weird: A look at one of the more outrageous and disturbing stories found in recent news, usually outside sports.

Weekly

• Just Shut Up: Tuesdays on the show have been deemed "Just Shut Up Tuesday," a reference to the McDonald's Just Shut Up Award, an honor bestowed on the sports-related figure of the past week voted by listeners as the person who most needs to just shut up. Past winners (and examples of the types of actions that could induce a nomination) include Bode Miller bragging about partying in Torino, Terrell Owens fighting with his teammates, and Latrell Sprewell turning down a multi-million-dollar contract extension and asking for more money, claiming "I've got a family to feed."
• Monday Morning Quarterback: Every Monday morning during the NFL season, Greenberg and Golic discuss all of the games of the day before.
• Stone Cold Lead Pipe Locks: On Fridays during the NFL season, Mike and Mike each pick 3 NFL game-winners (two of their own and then one head-to-head) based on point spreads. These picks have comical undertones with soundbites (sport stars, celebrities, TV/Movie quotes) in between analysis of the matchups.
• Man Up Question of the Day: A question asked of Greeny (and sometimes the listeners) meant to inform male listeners (and Greenberg) of how to be more manly.

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Yearly

• ESPY V Foundation: Every year Mike and Mike go to the ESPY Awards and then conduct an auction to raise money for the Jimmy V foundation. They take the whole show to auction off items, such as a day with Mike and Mike, meeting them and having breakfast after the show. Every year, they replay the Jim Valvano speech made at the ESPY Awards on March 4, 1993.

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Off Mikes

In 2005, ESPN and Animax Entertainment began producing two to three minute cartoons of Greeny and Golic, called Off Mikes. The cartoons are built around conversations and arguments of the two from the show. Off Mikes can be found on ESPN.com. The cartoons have won an Emmy award. Animax Entertainment is an animation studio based in Culver City, California whose clients include Disney, ESPN, Warner Bros. ... ESPN.com is the official website of ESPN and a division of ESPN Inc. ... An Emmy Award. ...

Sheet of "Integrity"

"Sheet of Integrity" is a phrase coined by Mike Greenberg^[1] describing a single bracket entry created for wagering on the NCAA basketball tournament. Greenberg holds the belief that if a person wishes to enter multiple pools, they should do so using the same picks for each entry. Golic has no problem with choosing different winners for each entry he submits, because, as he says, "I want to win the pool and win the caaash!" The two have good-naturedly debated this difference of opinion each year since 2000. In 2007, Lowe's sponsored the Brackets of Integrity Sweepstakes, an online tournament pool which allowed listeners of Mike and Mike in the Morning to play against Greenberg and Golic using bracket sheets of their own. Amusingly, the rules allowed each participant to create up to five different "Sheets of Integrity." The hosts' differences were summed up in 2005 in two separate parodies of Billy Joel's song "Honesty" (renamed "Integrity"), as sung by each host in support of their wagering philosophies. Mike Greenberg (born August 6, 1967 in New York City, New York) is a television anchor and radio host for ESPN. At ESPN, he hosts the weekday evening SportsCenter and ESPN Radios Mike and Mike in the Morning show with Mike Golic. ... In tournaments, bracket is commonly used to refer to the diagrammatic representation of the series of games played during the tournament. ... Gambling (or betting) is any behavior involving the risk of money or valuables on the outcome of a game, contest, or other event in which the outcome of that activity is partially or totally dependent upon chance. ... // Final four redirects here. ... “Lowes” redirects here. ... William Martin Billy Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American singer, pianist, songwriter, composer and musician. ...

Bracket Wager

During the week prior to the 2004 tournament, the two decided to take their differences one step further, which resulted in a one-on-one office pool referred to as the Sheet of Integrity Challenge. Mike Greenberg ultimately won that first wager, which concluded with Mike Golic getting his eyebrows waxed on-air. Mike Golic turned the tables in 2005, for which Mike Greenberg had to dress up as a leprechaun (the mascot of Mike Golic's alma mater, the University of Notre Dame) for the entirety of the show. Golic won again in 2006, for which Mike Greenberg once again had to dress in the leprechaun outfit, but this time at a remote held near campus of Notre Dame.^[2] The 2007 bracket wager originally had Mike Golic getting TASERed if he lost and Mike Greenberg having to milk a cow if he lost.^[3] Prior to the semi-finals, however, "the Suits" at ESPN (meaning upper management) determined that the tasering could not occur. (Apparently there was more risk of injury than ESPN was willing to take.) As it turned out, Golic's half of the wager was never fully determined: in the end, he won the bet anyway (thanks to Ohio State beating Georgetown in the Final Four semifinal)^[4], and Greenberg not only milked a cow in-studio on the June 21 broadcast, but also wore a "bedazzled" Mike Vrabel jersey for the entire September 3 broadcast, which is being auctioned off in support of Vrabel's charity, The Second and Seven Foundation" (secondandseven.com). The 2004 NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament involved 65 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of mens NCAA Division I college basketball. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the creature in Irish mythology. ... The University of Notre Dame IPA: is a Catholic[4] institution located in Notre Dame, an unincorporated section of St. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In broadcast engineering, a remote broadcast (usually just called a remote or a live remote) is broadcasting done from a location away from the regular studio. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... Summary An electroshock gun or stun gun, is a weapon used for subduing a person by administering an electric shock. ... Michael George Vrabel (born August 14, 1975 in Akron, Ohio) is an American football linebacker for the New England Patriots of the National Football League. ...

References

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External links

• ESPN Show page
• ESPN Radio
• Emmy winning Off-Mikes Cartoon Show
• Mike Greenberg's Official Fan Page
• Mike Golic's Unofficial Fan Page