Mike Mulligan

The son of immigrants raised on the South Side, WSCR morning man Mike Mulligan has worked the Chicago sports scene since getting his first job answering phones in the Sun-Times sports department in 1982.
Legendary High School sports editor Taylor Bell trained Mulligan as a reporters and writer and assigned him his first story which appeared in the newspaper while he was a sophomore at Loyola University in 1983.

A former paperboy who delivered the Sun-Times and Tribune in the morning and the Daily News and Chicago Today in the afternoon, Mulligan worked every job imaginable in the Sun-Times Sports department. From editorial assistant to high schools to small college beat reporter, he also backed up every major sports beat and spent a year as an enterprise feature writer before finally landing as a full-time beat writer covering the Chicago Bulls during their first three championships with Michael Jordan.

Mulligan moved to the Bears beat, covering Dave Wannstedt’s second full season as coach, and eventually moving into the NFL columnist job a few years later. He still covers football for the Chicago Tribune.
Mulligan’s radio broadcasting stops have included stints at 1-on-1 sports radio network, Sporting News Radio, ESPN and, of course, WSCR-670 The Score where he has teamed with fellow sportswriter Brian Hanley since 2005.

An award-winning journalist who has covered six NBA Finals, 16 Super Bowls and one World Cup Final, he also received a local Emmy for his television commentary on Fox Kickoff Sunday and worked the final season as a panelist on the legendary “Sportswriters on TV,’’ show.

Mulligan lives in the Northern suburbs with his wife, Christina, and their three children: Caitlyn, John and Mary