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Michael Wilbon was born in the year 1958 on 19th of November in Chicago, Illinois in the United States of America. Michael Wilbon is married to Sheryl Wilbon with whom he has a son, Matthew Ray Wilbon. He currently resides in Bethesda, Maryland with another home set in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Education

Michael attended St. Ignatius College Preparatory school where he graduated from in 1976, after he took the first step towards becoming a brilliant journalist. As talented as Michael was, four years later, he got his degree in journalism.

Career Experience

Michael Wilbon got his first experience ever in the field of journalism when he started working as an intern in the local newspaper in 1979. After he had finished his internship, he started working as a journalist for the Washington Post. He started working there in 1980. At the time he was working on a column that was focused on college sport, National Football League, Major League Baseball and the National Basketball Association. He was later in the 1990. promoted, becoming a full-time writer for the Washington Post. He was working as a regular columnist, covering everything related to sports, including writing about action as well as on culture of sports. The column appeared about 4 times a week until 2010. After he left the Post in 2010, Michael Wilbon became a part of ESPN family on the 7th of December.

In 1982, Michael Wilbon was the only <a href="/biography/michael-wilbon">journalist</a> outside Hawaii that was able to cover a historic match between Chaminade and Virginia. As he went to Hawaii, Honolulu in order to cover a college football game, he was present as a witness and a reporter of the match between two top teams. During his career as a journalist, Wilbon has been updating Post’s faithful readers on Summer and Winter Olympic Games. He had covered 10 Olympics at the time.

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Wilbon has also covered almost every <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_four">Final Four</a>, starting in 1982, every Super Bowl since 1987. and every NBA Finals every year starting from 1987. He was a part of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sports_Reporters">Sports Reporters</a>’ ESPN team and other shows hosted on the cable. Later on he started to work as a co-host Pardon the Interruption, also known as PTI, which was a forum hosted on ESPN. He started contributing to this project in the year 2001 on the 22nd of October. Side by side with <a href="/biography/bill-simmons">Bill Simmons</a>, <a href="/biography/magic-johnson">Magic Johnson</a> and <a href="/biography/jalen-rose">Jalen Rose</a>, Wilbon started working for the NBA Countdown, a show on ABC. Besides from working for PTI, ESPN and the Washington Post, Michael Wilbon had a weekly appearance on WRC-TV. The network was based in Washington D.C. and along with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Michael_(sportscaster)">George Michael</a>, the WRC sports director, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Jurgensen">Sonny Jurgensen</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Riggins">John Riggins</a>, Wilbon was reporting on Redskins every time the football season was on.

He also worked in USA Today Basketball and Full Court Press, reporting on basketball results during the season, unfortunately due to the budget cuts in 2008, both shows was cancelled. The Society of Professional Journalists gave Michael Wilbon a promising title of being a top sports journalist in 2001. Still, Michael was most famous for his statements and comments on players and the sports in general. ESPN offered him a contract extension with their network, which he accepted in the year 2006. He officially became a full-time reporter for ABC and ESPN in the year 2010, on the 7th of December when he also wrote his last report for the Post.

Personal Life

Wilbon, besides from being a former trustee of Northwestern University and a prominent, well-known sports reporter, is also a husband and a father. Michael Wilbon and his wife Sheryl got their first and only child in the year 2008 on 26th of March using a surrogate. Their son’s name is Mathew – if you have ever heard <a href="/biography/tony-kornheiser">Tony Kornheiser</a> talking about Lilbon on his radio show, he was referring to Mathew. Besides from knowing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travon_Bellamy">Travon Bellamy</a>, the former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travon_Bellamy">player</a> of the University of Illinois football team, is Wilbon’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travon_Bellamy">cousin</a>, no “juicy details” can be read on the subject of Wilbon’s personal life. He is happily married, raising his son with his wife, Sheryl. One of his personal accomplishments is competing against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Malott">Wes Malott</a> and defeating him in King of Bowling, TV made edition, where he managed to take the victory over the professional bowling star. Wilbon’s health failed him on one occasion in 2008 when he suffered a heart attack after a series of chest pains he was experiencing.

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Publications

Michael Wilbon is a current and full-time <a href="/biography/michael-wilbon">reporter</a> for ESPN and as a former journalist who had worked on sports columns for the Washington Post; Wilbon has a broad range of years and years of publications. He is considered to be one of the pioneers in the area of sports reporting and sports journalism. Michael Wilbon is also active on social media such as Twitter where he is commenting on fresh sports news and results.

Current Projects

At the moment, Wilbon is bound by the extended-year contract and working for ESPN. ESPN’s Pardon the Interruptions has Michael as a co-host of this famous sports show. He is working side by side with <a href="/biography/tony-kornheiser">Tony Kornheiser</a>, who had also got his contract multiyear-extended. The ESPN’s PTI is one of the shows that brought Wilbon fame, helping him confirm his importance to the world of sports journalism and reporting. After all the years of his professional career that started in 1980, he is still following up with sports at the same pace and with the same passion.

Michael Wilbon, after all years of being a sports journalist had proven to be one of the top journalists in the branch. He has grown to become well-known for his antagonistic comments on games and players, always giving his honest and professional opinion, which also makes him a perfect co-host in the ESPN’s PTI. Thanks to his notable qualities, he and managed to climb the ladder of success and join the club of famous as one of the most iconic sports reporters in the US and further.

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