Michael Whittenberg (Senior Writer)

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Michael's Bio

Michael O. Whittenberg, 22, hails from the great state of South Carolina and currently resides in Charlotte North Carolina. Michael attends college in NC as well, where he recently changed his major from Computer Information Systems to English/Journalism because his love for writing especially about sports. Once he graduates he plans to attend Grad school in DC or Dallas and continue to study Journalism.

Despite being a native of the Carolinas, he hates the North Carolina Tarheels with a passion. However, he is a huge Duke fan and is starting to show a little love towards the Charlotte Bobcats.

Michael’s favorite athletes of all-time would have to be Jerry Rice, Isiah Thomas, Michael Jordan, Karl Malone, Hakeem Olajuwon, and Clyde Drexler.

Some of his favorite current athletes are Carmelo Anthony, Ray Allen, Diana Taurasi, Vladimir Guerrero, Manny Ramirez, Ichiro, Braylon Edwards, Kellen Winslow Jr., Carson Palmer, Candace Parker, Steve Nash, Joe Johnson, A-Rod, Gilbert Arenas, and Steve Smith.

Whittenberg loves and follows all sports—but shows more adulation towards NBA Basketball and he considers himself a historian of the game.

He shows much respect and admiration for sports writers Stephen A.Smith, J.A. Adande, Jemelle Hill, Scoop Jackson, Chris Broussard, Jeffri Chadiha, John Clayton, Chris Sheridan, Marc Stein, Woody Paige, Jay Mariotti Bill Plaschke and newly added, James Walker.

Mike started writing at the age of 10… he used to write short story mysteries for fun and his brother illustrated the “books”. As a child, he admired the writing style of R.L. Stine because he was a huge fan of Goosebumps. He is still a mystery/horror fan and loves to read Edgar Allen Poe, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz. He also enjoys biographies, autobiographies and inspirational books…particularly Joel Osteen, Hill Harper and TD Jakes.

Away from sports writing and reading, his other hobbies include gun range shooting, playing basketball, and clothes shopping. Mike considers himself a great dresser and is addicted to Lacoste polos.

Michael can be contacted through email: mike_whittenberg@yahoo.com

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Favorite Athletes

Today: Carmelo Anthony, Ray Allen, Diana Taurasi, Candace Parker, Braylon Edwards, Kellen Winslow Jr., Carson Palmer, Reggie Wayne, Manny Ramirez, Josh Beckett, Vladimir Guerrero, Michael Beasley and more.

Favorite Sports Teams

Duke Blue Devils basketball

All Time Sports Moment

1997 NBA Finals Game 5 Bulls vs. Jazz, Michael Jordan scores 38 points with the flu. 1993 NBA Finals: Chicago Bulls vs. Phoenix game 3. Suns win in triple overtime

Most Memorable Game Attended

Charlotte Bobcats vs. Los Angeles Lakers: December 29, 2006: Kobe goes off for 58 points in a losing effort.

Most Unbreakable Sports Record

Wilt Chamberlain's 100 point game record set in 1962.

Ruth or Mays?

The Sultan of Swat

Unitas or Montana?

Hard choice--but I have to go with Montana since he is closer to my time.

Jordan or Russell?

Jordan of course, The greatest of all-time

Gretzky or Orr?

Gretzky

Federer or Sampras?

Federer

Tiger or Nicklaus?

Tiger

Petty or Earnhardt?

Earnhardt

Pac 10, Big 12, Big 10, SEC, ACC, or Big East?

ACC of course, the best conference in college B-ball.

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  1. by Hugh
    about 4 hours ago

    Hey, will you be my fan?

  2. by BabyTate
    about 16 hours ago

    Heh heh heh heh , we're gonna get along just fine.

  3. by Joe
    7 days ago

    Hey Michael, could you check out my latest article and give me some feedback? Also, if you could check out hoops4life.com, where the article is also published, that would be nice.

    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/38480-josh-smith-and-emeka-okafor-among-players-expected-to-change-teams

  4. by Wesley
    9 days ago

    No problem, it was a good article, it is hard to find completely objective/educated lists on BR

    Funny I didn't realize there was so much love for the Worm...

  5. by Brad
    9 days ago

    no problem...i really like you're nba commentary...if only there was a way to make my knicks look good

  6. by Harris
    10 days ago

    Great bio here. Can you edit my article, or publish it, or whatever?

  7. by Sean
    14 days ago

    Thanks for the add. I appreciate it.

  8. by Jay
    15 days ago

    Damn, I can't believe you picked Brand to Philly. I thought you were crazy for even writing that article...

  9. by TJ
    16 days ago

    It was my article I was just seeing if it was ok with you because it had your name and list in it.

    TJ

  10. by TJ
    16 days ago

    It's four different angles : the top 10 guards to ever play in the nba

  11. by Ryan
    16 days ago

    Mike,

    I just noticed that I've got the same problem on all my articles--and a quick investigation shows that it's definitely a site-wide glitch. I've alerted our tech guys; let's keep our fingers crossed that it's a fixable problem.

    Hope all is well, and thanks as always for bearing with us,

    Ryan

  12. by Rodge
    20 days ago

    Hey Mike -

    Check out my new article

    Take Care

  13. by TJ
    21 days ago

    Oops I meant to put Mike there, not Joe, my bad.

  14. by TJ
    21 days ago

    Hey Joe, I am writing on two other sites, (tosports.ca and hoops4life.com) I was just wondering if it was ok that I use the four different angles article about the guards, I just wanted to make sure it was ok because it has your name in it.

  15. by John
    26 days ago

    Hey

    just writing to tell you that I am no longer writing for Bleacher Report. I have embarked on several new ventures of my own and they are in direct conflict content-wise with BR.

    Two of my blogs (mrflushing.com and blognyg.com) have been incorporated into the Yardbarker network and and a third one - ny giant nation - is being run by sportsblognet.com

    I also bought into a sports video site that is in its infancy - smackcaster.com - which we are still developing....

    Rgds

    JF