Michigan Jewish Sports Hall of Fame

Michael Rosenberg

Michael Rosenberg is a senior writer for Sports Illustrated. Before joining SI, he spent 13 years at the Detroit Free Press, eight as a columnist, receiving national recognition for his work. He has also written for some of the top papers in the country, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and Philadelphia Inquiry. His work was featured in the 2005 edition of “The Best American Sports Writing” Michael has written several phenomenal stories, but one sticks out from the others. A 1994 sports page from the Michigan Daily talks about a Michigan football player who hurt his knee, but the player was not concerned about his knee, for he cried before every game because he thought the team might lose. Michael writes “he does not cry when his friends are killed but he cries only because he thought the team might lose. Michael learned an important lesson from this early in his career. “It’s not just getting the facts right, but that you’re taking the proper care” He has covered virtually every major sporting event, including nine Super Bowls and eight Olympics, and is the author of the critically acclaimed “War As They Knew It: Woody Hayes, Bo Schembechler and America in a Time of Unrest.” He is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where he served as editor in chief of The Michigan Daily.