Mike Bianchi

Mike Bianchi
Born (1960-06-01) June 1, 1960 (age 64)
OccupationSports columnist
NationalityAmerican

Michael A. Bianchi (born c. 1960)[citation needed] is an American journalist and sports columnist at the Orlando Sentinel.[1] He joined the Sentinel as a columnist in 2000 after working as the lead sports columnist at The Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville.[2] Before the Times-Union, Bianchi worked at Florida Today in Cocoa Beach, where he wrote columns and covered athletics at the University of Florida.[3]

In Orlando, he writes about the Orlando Magic, Orlando City Soccer Club, Florida Gators, Florida State Seminoles, University of Central Florida, NASCAR, the NBA, NFL and other sports and events.[1] Bianchi has a weekday morning radio program in Orlando, Open Mike, on WYGM AM 740; the show focuses on sports in Central Florida and Florida.[4][3]

In 2014, Bianchi came under fire for suggesting that the SEC should dump Ole Miss and instead add the University of Central Florida and the University of South Florida.[5] Bianchi responded with a YouTube video of himself reading hate mail he received from Mississippi State fans.[6]

  1. ^ a b "Mike Bianchi - Orlando Sentinel". orlandosentinel.com. Retrieved 2020-11-22.
  2. ^ "Annual Football Kickoff Meeting with Mike Bianchi". Daytona Beach Gator Club. 2017-08-05. Retrieved 2020-11-22.
  3. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Mike Bianchi Biography". CFL Radio. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
  5. ^ Nanni, Ryan (2014-10-07). "Newspaper columnist had unbelievably bad idea". SBNation.com. Retrieved 2020-11-23.
  6. ^ Bianchi, Mike. "Mike Bianchi Reads his Hate Mail".