Mike Golic Bio, Wiki, Age, Height, Family, Net Worth

ESPN radio’s “Mike & Mike”, a small part of ESPN’s big galaxy, has two popular hosts. Professional Footballer turned football-analyst, Mike Golic and professional journalist plus football fan Mike Greenberg. They are popular for not taking themselves too seriously.

In the show, Greenberg is the dorky analyst type and supporter of the New York Jets who has never set foot on a playing field and Golic is the ex-pro sports jock with perspective. At times both of them play up their parts to extremes, making the show too hot to handle. Greenberg’s dorky fan-boy and Golic jock personality are becoming very popular because of the show.

Ex pro Football player Golic is popular for his insights on in-game details of what happens on a football field. Besides, “Mike&Mike” he works in ESPN and ESPN2’s NFL studio programming as an analyst. He is also known for the network’s college football coverage.

He is defined as a metro-sexual personality who is very dependable on his work. But in 2008, because of a tragedy, dependable Mike Golic leaves his co-host partner Mike alone in one show of “Mike & Mike”. The tragedy was the death of his father-in-law. Because of the situation, Mike Greenberg hosted the show of that day alone, which the fans didn’t like very much because they were used to Mike and Mike hosting the show together.

Former NFL defenseman, Mike has done well for him financially.  Working for 8 years as an NFL veteran and almost 19 years on ESPN in small and big unique shows, Golic has earned a net worth of 9 million dollars. His salary on ESPN is expected to be between $200-300 thousand a year.

Moreover, his education is as much as convincing as his career achievement in football as well as in broadcasting. University of Notre Dame Graduate, Golic, was born and raised in Willowick, Ohio. He majored in finance and management from the university but made Football his prime career. He has been total football crazy since his childhood. He was captain of the university football team during his senior season plus he wrestled for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

Talking about his family, he is married to his wife Christine and they have altogether of three children from a relationship of about 25 years. Mike’s all three children went to the same university Notre Dame where he had gone. His eldest son Mike Jr. and middle son Jake are both into football. Pittsburgh Steelers signed him as an undrafted agent following the 2013 draft.  His daughter Sydney is into swimming.

Cleveland Indians fan, Mike has faced many controversies for taking corticosteroids while recovering from an injury, which he admitted later.  Critics say he could expose a lot of what goes on in the NFL about the avenues through which guys obtain steroids/PEDs if he wanted to, but he’d never ‘turn his back on fellow players like that.

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