<![CDATA[Deadspin: Mike Greenberg]]> http://cache.deadspin.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/deadspin.com.png <![CDATA[Deadspin: Mike Greenberg]]> http://deadspin.com/tag/mike greenberg http://deadspin.com/tag/mike greenberg <![CDATA[All The Unkind Things Bill Simmons Said About His Colleagues In The ESPN Book]]> One of the most interesting characters to emerge from the ESPN book is the formerly inscrutable Bill Simmons, if only because we've never heard him be so (openly) self-aware before. He again whips out the big swinging dick in some more excerpts. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5805148&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Mike Greenberg Is Getting A Sitcom; Or, Why TV People Think You're An Idiot]]> The sitcom will revolve around a cipher of a sports talk show host, who's alternately paired with a boorish former athlete co-host and a long-suffering wife, so essentially Mike Greenberg, because Mike Greenberg has a fascinating life and a lot of TV people think you will be interested in watching a fictionalized version of that life, because some people bought Greenberg's book about the exact same thing, and also because TV people like high-concept plots like these because they are familiar and comfortable and they think viewers are idiots and want familiar and comfortable and if you bought Mike Greenberg's book, you're probably one of those idiots who would enjoy his show or at least purchase the products advertised during its airing. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5798995&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Here's Mike Greenberg Dressed As Justin Bieber]]> Sports talk radio, of the aired-on-television variety: still going strong! We would prefer to just leave it at that, and to let you reach your own conclusions about how Mike Greenberg came to wear white jeans and a Bieber wig. Maybe it's just in his nature. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5798742&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Mike Greenberg Is Not The First Man To Accidentally Say "Martin Luther Koon"]]> It turns out the former mayor of Selma, Ala., Joseph Smitherman, also accidentally slurred his words but he probably didn't get half the grief poor Greeny received yesterday. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5451575&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Mike Greenberg Would Like To Clarify Something]]> "I would never say anything like that," Greeny says of today's little slip-up, "not in public, or in private, or in the silence of my own mind ..." The silence of my own mind. Beautiful. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5451384&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Mike Greenberg Celebrates MLK Day With Just About The Worst Slip Of The Tongue Imaginable]]> Video below. Um, whoops. [BlackSportsOnline, video by Ryan Fields] More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5451140&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Mike Greenberg's Intelligence Is Compromised By Mike Golic's Chronic Dumb Jockyness]]> Mike Greenberg, the well-manicured, impish half of "Mike And Mike In The Morning" was interviewed by Dan Levy on his OnTheDL show and was asked if the show is"dumbed down" to cater to the average sports fan. Greenberg would never undermine or insult his audience like that, but he did take his usual potshot at co-host and former NFL defensive lineman Mike Golic. However, one quote in particular seemed a little more cutting than the usual doses of playful banter employed on the show:
I think I have to dumb it down because of Golic. It is impossible to have a conversation on a high, intellectual level with a man whose idea of fine literature begins with Doctor and ends with Seuss.I remember one time I referenced ‘The Catcher in the Rye' and Golic honestly did not know who had written it or what it was. That was the day I realized, ‘you know, I'm not going to be able to do some things here.'
It must take a remarkable amount of restraint on Golic's behalf to not want to take Greenberg by the back of the hair and just start smashing his face into the console each day. But if Greenberg keeps floating quotes like this while Golic's not around, it might be inevitable. Mike Greenberg [OnTheDL] More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5050656&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Mike And Mike Can Blow Up The Internet With One Sentence]]> What on earth could have possibly driven the ESPN duo Mike And Mike (or greenberg golic ESPN) to the "On Fire" setting on Google trends earlier this afternoon? I saw this earlier today and thought something preposterous happened on-air this morning, like Golic attacked Greenberg with a mallet. But apparently it doesn't take anything remotely that interesting to have Mike and Mike "on fire" according to Google trends. No, it just takes Greenberg talking about how he was sitting at home Googling himself while he took a sick day to find out all the negative things people said about him. (Honestly, it's not that bad considering their the first to play up the whole ex-jock vs. hair product-slathered weenie comparisons. We all know ESPN has a tremendous reach and this show is extremely popular, but can some quick banter about Google really cause Mike and Mike listeners to react so instantaneously? If so, it appears Greenberg's got some David Koresh-like magnetism stuffed inside that man-purse of his. No wonder someone would pay $57,000 to sit in a room with them. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5030706&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Greenberg Game Show Takes Nation By Storm]]> Some of you may have liked Duel, the new Mike Greenberg-hosted game show on ABC. I'll admit to being confused by the entire enterprise; for the first 10 minutes I thought I was watching the first episode of the new season of Lost. Answer the question, Hurley, and The Others will release Sawyer! For more detailed analysis, let's go to The Washington Post's Tom Shales, who was a little more pointed in his criticism. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=335135&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[ Mike Greenberg, game show host. Took them...]]> Mike Greenberg, game show host. Took them long enough. [Awful Announcing] More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=324847&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[ESPN Brings Who's Now In For A Tuneup]]> You might have thought there would be absolutely no way whatsoever that ESPN could possibly salvage those soul-destroying "Who's Now?" segments. It would be reasonable to think so. But they might have found the only out they had. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=278125&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[What's That Lassie? Mike Greenberg Needs Our Help?]]> The sun is shining these days on ESPN radio host Mike Greenberg. He's on the backup team for "Monday Night Football," he's got a wacky "Everybody Loves Greeny!" book on the shelves, he's introducing spelling bees on network television and he's the official face of Arena Football, for better or worse. Everything's coming up Greeny! But that said, the guy always needs a helping hand from his fans. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=276757&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Don't Piss Off Jon Bon Jovi]]> You know, we haven't decided if Jon Bon Jovi's part-ownership of the Arena League's Philadelphia Soul makes the league more interesting, or less. On the one hand, a "rock star" who writes about just the perfect karaoke song owns a sports franchise and screams and yells from the luxury booth. On the other, it's Jon Bon Jovi. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=250983&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Just Two Days To Wedding Crash At ESPN]]> Hey, everyone, a reminder: You only have two more days to crash the party of Mike and Mike's Marriage Madness endeavor. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=157769&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Fun With Mike And Mike's Wedding Thing]]> We don't want to get stuck in Kick ESPN mode today, but we've been thinking more and more about this "Mike and Mike in the Morning" radio wedding thing, and we think it might be the most insane thing we've seen in many a moon. We can't get our minds around it. We're not sure what we think is craziest. Is it that you have to apply in the next three weeks to be a finalist? Is it that you have to go on the show afterwards and compete against other "contestants?" Is it that you have to find a tuxedo that will fit Mike Golic? More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=153503&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[How To Guarantee A Quick Divorce]]> When we heard that the "Mike and Mike In The Morning" ESPN radio show was doing some sort of wedding special, we thought, "Jeez, about time! Now we can finally answer the question: Which one is Jack, and which on is Ennis?" More »
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