Durbin won 14 PBA Tour titles in his career, including three major championships (all three in the Firestone Tournament of Champions).
From the early 1980s to 1995, Durbin worked as a color analyst for ESPN alongside play-by-play man Dennis Schreiner.
Durbin co-authored with Dan Herbst a self-help bowling book called From Gutterballs to Strikes published in 1998.
In late 2015, Durbin was voted into the USBC Hall of Fame, Superior Performance category,[3] and was inducted with the 2016 class on April 28.
[3] Durbin and his wife Debra have three children, Mike Jr., Matthew, and Christine (mentioned by Chris Schenkel on the 26 January 1985 ABC telecast of the Pro Bowlers Tour, 1985 Quaker State Open, wherein Durbin won his final PBA Tour title, over Mike Edwards,[6] who failed to convert a 4-9 split in the final frame).