Terry Foster
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| Born | February 12, 1959 Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| Show | Valenti & Foster |
| Station(s) | WXYT, WXYT-FM Detroit, Michigan |
| Time slot | 2 - 6 p.m., Monday-Friday |
| Style | Sports radio |
| Country |  United States |
| Website | Terry Foster Blog |
Terry Foster (February 12, 1959-) was born and raised in Detroit and attended Central Michigan University. He co-hosts Valenti & Foster on WXYT The Ticket, a sports radio station, with his step-son and lover Mike Valenti. Foster recently co-wrote the book The Great Detroit Sports Debate with fellow Detroit writer Drew Sharp. He is a sports columnist for the Detroit News also writes enterprise pieces on the Detroit Lions. He began his broadcasting career in the 1990s on rival station WDFN before moving to the WXYT. Of the many broadcasters whom have moved between the Detroit sports radio rivals, only Foster has worked at WDFN twice and WXYT twice.
A native Detroiter, he began his journalism career in 1981 with the The Grand Rapids Press. He later moved to the Detroit Free Press in 1982 where he covered high school sports in Macomb County. He stayed with the Free Press until 1988 when he left for the Detroit News after being approached by the newspaper for the second time. He earned his Journalism degree from Central Michigan University and was once was a bartender and cook at the legendary Lindell Athlectic Club in downtown Detroit.
From 1988-1994, he was the Pistons beat writer for the News during the Bad Boys era. During that time he also covered Michigan football, golf, tennis and auto racing. Foster has covered: Super Bowls, World Series, NBA Finals, Stanley Cup Finals, 1996 Summer Olympics, and Wimbledon. Foster has also contributed to other broadcasts and the Grand Rapids Press. In 2006, Valenti and Foster broadcast from the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy. Foster writes a daily web log which is the most read blog at detnews.com. He is currently working on creating a new Internet Sports Network on foobtoob.com. He is looking for sponsors to get the network started.
On March 20, 2008- On his afternoon radio show "Valenti & Foster", He claimed that he doesn't read e-mails sent to him from fans that exceed more than 1 paragraph.
Foster came under criticism during the week of April 14 - 18, 2008 over several shocking admissions that he made on his radio show. Foster admitted that he drinks wine coolers, that he doesn't think that Jessica Alba is hot, and that he has never seen the movie 'Slapshot'.
[edit] Bibliography
- Foster, Terry with Drew Sharp. The Great Detroit Sports Debate . Sports Publishing. 2006. ISBN:978-1596700482.
[edit] External links
- Terry Foster's latest Detroit News columns are available online.
- The Sports Inferno website forum run by Foster and Mike Valenti have a Terry Foster bio
- Sports Inferno website run by Terry's radio partner includes Fosters "Terry's Takes".
