For instance, last week when they appeared on Letterman (no this blog is not a sponsor of The Late Show, even though on today's pace I'll mention it 60 times in the next month) I made a crack about them being attached at the penis. Purely humorous. But after today's cohosting of a 90 minute/6 p.m. Sports Center, I'm not so sure.
This brings me back to this article about how ESPN (among other things) is straying away from news a bit and treating athletes more like celebrities. And I must say tonight's Mike & Mike-center definitely felt more like Entertainment Tonight, except without the lovely Mary Hart.
The show had obvious low points when they had a montage of activities Mike & Mike had done together, only to be topped when the Grambling marching band came on set and had Mike & Mike dance with them. But one of the smaller details that got to me was when Greenberg 'initiated' Golic into anchordom with his first real reader - an actual news story he read about the Steelers that I have no recollection of what it was about because Greenberg made it a bigger deal that Golic was actually reading a story like an anchor than whatever the story was about itself (sorry, had to vent that in one sentence).
Mike & Mike are fantastic on radio (too bad I'm only up before 10 a.m. about 15 times a year), they were cute at the spelling bee, and I'll even take them together on Letterman. But keep them off Sports Center, please, and leave the news as news.
In reference to co-hosting Sports Center, at one point Golic said to Greenberg "the sad thing is you went to school for this."
I couldn't agree with him more.
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