He was chief football writer and associate sports editor for the Herald Sun for 18 years.

Although he left these positions at the end of 2011, he still writes special columns for the newspaper, including his yearly "Top 50" player list.

He was also a panelist on the Fox Footy program On the Couch and former media director for the Australian Football League (AFL, formerly VFL).

[1] In February 2018 he joined a podcast with former St Kilda coach Grant Thomas and former co-host of The Footy Show, Sam Newman, entitled "Sam, Mike and Thomo", it aired once weekly and talks about all trending topics, with a sprinkling of commentary on AFL.

He was a part of this until June 2020, when he quit the podcast for a second time due to the fallout of a comment made by Scott about former AFL footballer Nicky Winmar.