Michael Wilbon

Novak Djokovic achieved his 19th career Grand Slam yesterday, beating Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas to win the 2021 French Open. You can count ESPN’s Michael Wilbon among the impressed. On Monday’s edition of Pardon The Interruption, Wilbon and host Tony Kornheiser discussed just how superb Djokovic is despite being in his...

UNCASVILLE, Conn. -- ESPN's Michael Wilbon and Mike Breen were honored with the print and broadcast versions of the Curt Gowdy Award on Friday night as part of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame's 2020 class of inductees. Wilbon, who spent 30 years at The Washington Post in addition to...

As we head into the final stretch of this year’s NBA regular season, MVP discussions are starting to heat up. During Wednesday’s episode of Pardon the Interruption, ESPN analyst Mike Wilbon revealed two names on his 2020-21 MVP ballot. His No. 1 pick for this year’s award, Nikola Jokic, should come as no surprise to NBA fans. But, if you heard the third name on his list earlier on in the season, you may think you were dreaming.

From afar, working in sports media may seem like a dream job. As with anything else, though, things can be much less glamorous when you’re in the trenches. Just ask ESPN’s Michael Wilbon about that. Before joining the Worldwide Leader, Mike Wilbon worked for the Washington Post and found himself...

ESPN’s Michael Wilbon is a Chicago native, so he’s a die-hard Chicago Bears fan. The popular ESPN writer has been suffering since the 1985 season, as that was the last time the Bears won the Super Bowl. While Chicago has had a few good teams since the Monsters of the...

ESPN on-air personality and co-host of Pardon The Interruption along with Tony Kornheiser has predicted the Iona Gaels to upset the Crimson Tide in their first round matchup on Saturday afternoon. While appearing as a guest on Kornheiser's podcast, Wilbon stated "The biggest upset pick anyone on your show will...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The national media, which has largely ignored Indiana basketball during the past four years of the Archie Miller era, jumped in on his firing on Monday. Two prominent voices on ESPN with Big Ten loyalties, Michael Wilbon (Northwestern) and Scott Van Pelt (Maryland), didn't think it was right for Indiana to fire Miller.

Phoenix Suns star Chris Paul is releasing a memoir, "Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court," that will be co-written by ESPN's Michael Wilbon, per the Associated Press. The book was written in tribute to Paul's late grandfather, Nathaniel Jones, who died while Paul was in high...

The James Harden saga continues for the Houston Rockets. The players recently claimed he’s focused on staying with the team but everything else points out that the Beard is ready to leave the franchise this season. Harden landed in Houston in 2012 from the Oklahoma City Thunder and ever since that moment, things changed for the organization. Harden became the face and soul of the team and that has become a problem for the team.