Mike Celizic
Michael J. Celizic was an American author and columnist.
Celizic was born in Leroy Township, Ohio, and was a graduate of Painesville Riverside High School and the University of Notre Dame.
Celizic authored seven books, including The Biggest Game of Them All: Notre Dame, Michigan State and the Fall of 1966.
Celizic had been a reporter for the Home News Tribune of New Brunswick, New Jersey, and a sports columnist for The Record of Hackensack, New Jersey. He was also a columnist for msnbc.com for 13 years. He was known for a trademark look that always included a hat.
Celizic died of cancer, survived by a wife, Margaret, and four children. He had covered the treatment on his lymphoma in a journal for MSNBC up until his decision to forgo further chemotherapy treatments following an unfavorable diagnosis of the cancer's return from remission.
