George Michael, a high-rated and hyper-animated Washington, D.C., sportscaster whose extensive use of game highlights from across the country on his nationally syndicated show has now become the ...

George Michael, whose wide-ranging and sometimes wacky “Sports Machine” helped usher in the era of saturation TV sports coverage, died Thursday morning after a two-year battle with cancer.

George Michael, a mainstay on the Washington, D.C., sports television scene for decades who reached a national audience with “The George Michael Sports Machine” highlights show, has died.