In news which shouldn’t surprise anyone, sports columnist Michael Wilbon will officially leave the Washington Post at the end of the year. Wilbon has spent 32 years at the paper. According to a memo obtained by FishbowlDC, Wilbon will be pursuing an expanded role at ESPN/ABC, the station on which he, along with fellow former Postie Tony Kornheiser, launched his incredibly popular Pardon the Interruption program and for whom he serves as an NBA analyst. “The ESPN/ABC rocket ship that Michael Wilbon has been riding the past several years has finally left our orbit,” the memo stated, adding that the “decision did not come easy for” Wilbon. Wilbon still has plenty of pull, and the guy has had a career that any sports journalist would kill for — he’s covered 24 Super Bowls and ten Olympic Games, for starters. Wilbon is the second big name to leave the paper in recent weeks — longtime columnist and reporter Howard Kurtz left the Post in early October.