Michael Silver (sportswriter)

[1] Silver began his career as a sports writer and columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, where he covered the San Francisco 49ers and Golden State Warriors from 1990 to 1994.

[2] He also covered the 49ers for the Sacramento Union and served as a correspondent for Pro Football Weekly and The Sporting News.

Silver began work at Sports Illustrated in November 1994, eventually becoming a senior writer there.

He was one of the magazine's lead football writers, having authored game stories for Super Bowl XXIX through XLI and personal profiles of famous sports characters.

He left NFL Network in 2021 and began working for Bally Sports in October of that year.