  michael ray wilbonhttps://www.facebook.com/michaelrwilbon (; born november 19, 1958) is an espn commentator and former sportswriter and columnist for the washington post. he is an analyst for espn and has co-hosted pardon the interruption on espn with former post writer tony kornheiser since 2001. ==career== wilbon began working for the washington post in 1980 after summer internships at the newspaper in 1979 and 1980. he covered college sports, major league baseball, the national football league and the national basketball association before being promoted to full-time columnist in february 1990. his column in the post, which dealt as much with the culture of sports as the action on the court or field, appeared up to four times a week until he left to work full-time for espn on december 7, 2010. in his career, wilbon has covered ten summer and winter olympic games for the washington post, every super bowl since 1987, nearly every final four since 1982 and each year's nba finals since . notably, he was also the only reporter based outside of hawaii to cover the historic basketball upset of top-ranked virginia by then-naia member chaminade in 1982 (he was in honolulu to cover a college football bowl game). after contributing to espn's the sports reporters and other shows on the cable network, he began co-hosting espn's daily opinion forum pardon the interruption (pti) with tony kornheiser on october 22, 2001. he was also a member of [[espn on
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