About

My name is Mike Chiari. I'm 22 years old and I graduated from Buffalo State College in four years with my Bachelor's Degree in Journalism in the spring. I previously graduated from Depew High School in Depew, NY; a suburb of Buffalo.

While attending Buff State I wrote for the school's student-run newspaper, The Record, for two years. I wore many hats in the sports section of the paper, working as a staff writer, associate editor and editor. During that time I covered a multitude of sports, including the men's basketball and football teams.

Short List

  • Favorite Athletes

    Barry Bonds, Thomas Vanek, Ryan Miller, Alex Rodriguez, Robinson Cano, CC Sabathia, Mariano Rivera, Mark Teixeira, Curtis Granderson, John Elway, Chauncey Billups, Shawn Michaels, Hulk Hogan, The Miz, Jack Swagger, Jeff Gordon, Maria Sharapova, Tiger Woods

  • Favorite Sports Teams

    Buffalo Sabres, Buffalo Bills, New York Yankees, New York Knicks

  • Favorite Coaches

    Lindy Ruff, Joe Torre, Mike Shanahan, Joe Girardi

  • All Time Sports Moment

    New York Yankees 2009 World Series Championship

  • Most Memorable Game Attended

    Inaugural Winter Classic at Ralph Wilson Stadium between the Buffalo Sabres and Pittsburgh Penguins

  • Most Unbreakable Sports Record

    Wayne Gretzky, 92 goals in a single season

  • Ruth or Mays?

    Ruth

  • Unitas or Montana?

    Montana

  • Jordan or Russell?

    Jordan

  • Gretzky or Orr?

    Gretzky

  • Pele or Maradona?

    Pele

  • Federer or Sampras?

    Sampras

  • Tiger or Nicklaus?

    Tiger

  • Petty or Earnhardt?

    Earnhardt

  • Schumacher or Senna?

    Schumacher

  • ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-12 or SEC?

    Big East

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  • Sahil Maherali posted 25 days ago

    Sahil Maherali

    Hey man I wrote an article I want to get published but I'm to young to be a writer. Would it possible for you to check it out and give me feed back? Maybe even publish it yourself?

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  • Mike Chiari posted 27 days ago

    Mike  Chiari

    Dennis,

    I wrote the article before the fight ever happened so we could get it up right away, and somebody else was supposed to go in, fill in the particulars and post it. I'm fully aware that Mosley is 46-8-1-1 and I rectified the error. Thanks for pointing it out, but no thanks for your condescending tone.

  • Dennis Andrews posted 28 days ago

    Dennis Andrews

    I suspect you are already painfully aware that your credibility has taken a dump with this misinformed comment...."Despite the loss, Mosley's career speaks for itself as he is 48-1-1"

  • Lucas Maurice posted 45 days ago

    Lucas Maurice

    Hey Mike I'm a huge fan and love your writing. Bleacherreport, especially your writing, has inspired me to start writing about sports. I considered signing up for bleacherreport but instead decided to try to make my own website. http://bustasports.com/ is the link, and it would mean a ton if you checked it out and gave me some feedback. Feel free to give me positive or negative feedback, either way it means a lot. You can post on my profile or email me at lmssports@hotmail.com
    I also have a couple questions, so do you have a personal email I can reach you at?
    Thanks a lot and a reply would be huge for me.

  • Mike Chiari posted 51 days ago

    Mike  Chiari

    Mike,

    I've already addressed the article numerous times in the comments sections so I really have nothing else to say. I did nothing wrong from a journalistic standpoint and I most definitely didn't implicate Cerullo. I'm well aware of what I'm doing and if I wasn't in the right then the story wouldn't have run. I understand that there are a lot of people who are upset about the bounty situation, and some of that is being taken out on me, but I was simply reporting on a report from SportsNOLA. Nothing more and nothing less.

  • Mike Poole posted 51 days ago

    Mike Poole

    "You trash my article about Mike Cerullo and say that I'm implicating him without proof, but that simply isn't true."

    Bull. You wrote an article full of absolutely speculative trash. You didn't include any effort to make it clear that Mr. Donnes accusations were unsubstantiated, and based largely on speculation and hearsay. Hell, you tried to give his accusations more substance by suggesting that his 5 year old book would mean that he would have a close and intimate knowledge of the team, without any evidence of that being the case.

    You also failed to make any reference to the fact that the guy being implicated has been employed in the college ranks since departing the Saints (implying that he had been jobless), and that the freaking bounty investigation started TWO YEARS before he left the Saints organization. In fact, you ignore that point so much, that you even included an utterly garbage poll in which the only affirmative option centers around him getting revenge two years before being fired.

    If you wanted to actual comment on the situation, a full examination and inclusion of all of the facts would have been appropriate. Not some half-assed attempt that offers him up as the whistle-blower, speculates on his reasoning for doing so (despite no proof that it WAS him).

  • juan hernandez posted 52 days ago

    juan hernandez

    you must have ties to the bush administration for outing a whistleblower

  • Alex N posted 52 days ago

    Alex N

    "Wow. Did you honestly learn nothing about blindly accusing people of "whistle-blowing" from the Sapp situation?

    I'm floored that you would write something like this when you've got absolutely no proof, and are basing the article on the hearsay and uninformed opinion of somebody else, who admittedly has absolutely no proof.

    It's pathetic that there's nothing approaching journalistic integrity or any amount of well-researched scoops with solid sources anymore. You should be utterly ashamed"

    Yes, this was taken from someone else's comment, but I figure its as good as what you did above. Shameful, really shameful.

  • Mike Chiari posted 59 days ago

    Mike  Chiari

    A couple things to note, John. Firstly, that article was from many months ago, so I'm certainly not going to edit it. Also, the reason why Danica is 53rd in the Sprint Cup standings is because she has only run one race.

    She's only running a few this year, but is running the full Nationwide Series slate, where she is currently 17th. That isn't great, but it's solid for a stock car rookie. Danica won't ever be a championship contender in my estimation, but she can definitely be a solid driver for a long time.

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