[3] In early 2004, Valenti was hired as co-host of The Sports Inferno alongside Terry Foster, mid-days on 1270 WXYT in Detroit.
[4] In March 2009 Valenti caused controversy after reading a couple jokes about Detroit Lions defensive end Corey Smith, who was lost at sea and is presumed dead.
[7] "It's absolutely true, 100 percent of it," Mike Valenti said about allegations the Lions left 97.1 The Ticket because they didn't like his criticism of the team.
[9] On Monday, September 25, 2006, following a Michigan State University football loss against Notre Dame—a game in which his alma mater blew a sixteen-point fourth-quarter lead—Valenti went off on a twelve-minute[10] on-air tirade ripping into the Spartans for their poor showing.
Highlights of the rant featured Valenti saying the Spartans "handed [the game] away like a nice three-button coat at the Salvation Army," that they "choked on applesauce," and his plea to then-head coach John L. Smith to recognize that "timeouts are not like cell phone minutes—they don't carry over!"