Mike Golic and Mike Golic Jr. will be departing DraftKings Network in the coming months after the company declined to renew agreements with them. The father-son duo first started working together at the company in August 2023 to co-host the GoJo and Golic weekday television program with host Jessie Coffield. The program was disseminated on the DraftKings Network, along with a variety of other platforms, some of which include Samsung TV Plus, Roku Channel, Google TV and Sling Freestream.
The company also revealed that Pregame PowerUp with Trey Wingo and Claudia Bellofatto will not be returning to the airwaves for the upcoming NFL season. The show recently aired for the College Football Playoff National Championship and covered the NFL throughout the year. Wingo joined DraftKings around the start of the program in August, while Bellofatto has freelanced with the brand since last February.
“After careful consideration, DraftKings has decided not to renew agreements with Mike Golic Sr. and Mike Golic Jr. for GoJo and Golic,” a DraftKings spokesperson said in a statement. “Additionally, we will not bring back Pregame PowerUp with Trey Wingo and Claudia Bellofatto for the 2025-26 NFL season. We want to thank the Golics, Jessie Coffield, Trey and Claudia for their contributions to DraftKings. We remain focused on optimizing current and future content investments to continue to grow the audiences for DraftKings Network and DraftKingsNetwork.com.”
In an interview with Barrett Media, Golic confirmed his departure and stated that he and his son have known for a little while but are looking to stay together. The duo will broadcast their show live from New Orleans for Super Bowl week, and Golic voiced that they have been talking to other outlets.
“DraftKings said that they were going to stop all in-house produced shows,” Golic explained. “Anything that they’re producing, they were going to stop. They’ll still do the shows that are self producing, but my son and I’s show was one that was produced in house, and they’re stopping all their content that’s produced in house.”
Golic joined DraftKings in 2021 and worked with Jessica Smetana on the Golic and Smetty program. One year later, his son joined the company and partnered with former teammate Brandon Newman on the GoJo daily podcast. The duo had worked together for parts of the last two years, but it remains unknown when the final episode will take place. Prior to joining DraftKings Network, Golic had been on ESPN Radio with Mike Greenberg for the Mike & Mike morning show for 17 years.
“I have a few years left in me – I still enjoy it,” Golic said. “I drive my wife nuts if I’m not working by continuing to talk sports all the time, and she says I’m too young to retire, so I got a few years left in me and we enjoy working together.”
At the moment, it is not currently known where Golic and Golic Jr. will be heading next, but sources indicated to Front Office Sports that both have had “exploratory” talks with Yahoo Sports. The company has recently expanded its sports media roster, securing talent such as Kevin O’Connor, Ariel Helwani, Caroline Fenton and Adam Breneman. Ryan Glasspiegel of Front Office Sports was the first to report the news of the Golics leaving the company.
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