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The Golics are reuniting again with a familiar partner orchestrating the move. Mike Golic and his son, Mike Golic Jr., will host a sports talk show on FanDuel Sports Network, run by former top ESPN executive Norby Williamson.
The show, which will be called “Golic & Golic,” is expected to air weekdays from 4 p.m. to 6 p.
m. ET as a lead-in to the network’s regional games each night. It will be featured on all of the network’s direct-to-consumer platforms and is expected to begin in June.
Advertisement Golic Sr. and Mike Greenberg had a long, successful run as the hosts of ESPN Radio’s “Mike and Mike.” After Greenberg left the program in 2017 to host ESPN’s morning TV show, “Get Up,” Golic Sr.
then partnered with Trey Wingo, with Golic Jr. as the third man on the program. Golic Sr.
left ESPN in 2020, with Golic Jr. following out the door two years later. The father and son combo have worked for DraftKings, among other gigs, since they left ESPN.
“I’ve been doing this for a long time, but I have had no more joy than to do it with my son,” Golic Sr. told The Athletic . “What I’ve always talked about doing TV and radio, it’s conversing with people, not ‘at people’.
So you equate it to sitting at a bar and having a conversation. For the last three years, at ESPN and a couple of years at the last gig, I’ve had the chance to sit at the bar with my son and just talk sports.” FanDuel regional sports networks are the home to 30 MLB, NBA and NHL teams.
It was formerly named Bally Sports. All of the network’s on-air personalities will provide a base for the show to feature guests. “It’s a great team and pool for us to draw from in terms of resources,” Golic Jr.
said. After nearly four decades at ESPN, Main Street Sports hired Williamson in January to be its president of programming and production for FanDuel Networks. “The wild thing again is: Mike worked for Norby,” Golic Sr.
said. “But I worked with him for a long time. It’s just a wild thing to have paths cross yet again.
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