Valenti was released in 2003 and is BoA's highest selling Japanese album (excluding overseas sales) and sold over 1.2 million copies.^[1]Valenti debuted at number on the weekly charts with over 615,000 copies in its first week. It was also number one in its second week with another 222,000 copies sold. Valenti has been certified million by the RIAJ.^[2]

Track listing[link]

CD[link]

DVD[link]

Oricon sales chart (Japan)[link]

Singles[link]

References[link]

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Michael J. Valenti
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Born	October 24, 1980
Show	Valenti & Foster
Station(s)	WXYT-FM/AM, Detroit, Michigan
Time slot	2:00 - 6:00 p.m., Monday-Friday
Style	Sports radio/general talk
Country	United States
Website	http://www.sportsinferno.com http://971theticket.com

Mike Valenti (born October 24, 1980) is an American talk radio show host based in Detroit, Michigan. He is one half of The Valenti and Foster Show (formerly The Sports Inferno). His show can be heard weekday afternoons from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. on WXYT-FM 97.1. His co-host is Terry Foster. Valenti can also be seen on The Ford Lions Report Sunday mornings during the NFL regular season doing pro football fantasy team reports and the Lions game preview. The show airs on Detroit ABC affiliate WXYZ and throughout the Michigan ABC stations.

Education and early career[link]

Valenti graduated from Michigan State University in 2002 with a degree in journalism. He first stepped into radio as a producer of Mad Dog & Company and also co-hosted the Spartan Tailgate Show at WVFN 730 AM in Lansing, Michigan. In 2002, Valenti was hired as producer of SportsPage with Jack and Tom on 92.7 WQTX. Valenti would then be hired as co-host of The Sports Inferno alongside Terry Foster, middays on 1270 WXYT in Detroit.

The Rant[link]

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^[1] on-air tirade ripping into the Spartans for their poor showing. Highlights of the rant included Valenti saying the Spartans "choked on applesauce", Valenti's plea to then-head coach John L. Smith to recognize that "timeouts are not like cell phone minutes — they don't carry over," scathing criticism of offensive coordinator Dave Baldwin's decision to have Drew Stanton "run the option in Hurricane Katrina," and a desire for defensive coordinator Chris Smeland to be replaced by H. R. Pufnstuf with Teddy Ruxpin as his assistant.^[1]

The meltdown was covered in an article in Sports Illustrated where it was deemed "the single finest rant ever heard on sports talk radio".^[1]

Valenti and Foster[link]

The Sports Inferno was moved from middays to afternoon drive upon WXYT switching channels from 1270 AM to 97.1 FM. The show was subsequently retitled Valenti and Foster. In the slot it grew to become the top rated show in its time slot^[2] becoming one of the only sports talk shows to ever achieve such a feat.^{[citation needed]} A large reason for this success is that it was the first sports show to air in Detroit on an FM frequency in that time slot.^{[citation needed]} Considered one of the most popular sports talk shows in Michigan,^{[citation needed]} Valenti and Foster have stated the reason for their success is their willingness to talk any subject, including those outside of sports.^{[citation needed]}

Controversy[link]

Valenti has on more than one occasion referred to his listeners as "idiots" and is known to prohibit discussion of certain topics on his show he is biased against or deems unintelligent. He routinely clashes with callers.^{[citation needed]}

References[link]

External links[link]

• Valenti's Bio

Jessica Valenti
Born	(1978-11-01) November 1, 1978 (age 33) New York City, New York, United States
Residence	Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts [1]
Education	Master's in Women's and Gender Studies
Alma mater	Rutgers University
Occupation	Writer
Known for	Founder of Feministing
Spouse	Andrew Golis
Children	One daughter (born 2010)
Website
jessicavalenti.com

Jessica Valenti (born November 1, 1978) is an American blogger and feminist writer, known for having founded the feminist blog Feministing in 2004. She is the author or co-author of four books on women's issues, including Full Frontal Feminism (2007), He's a Stud, She's a Slut (2008), and The Purity Myth (2009). Her work has appeared in Ms. magazine, The Guardian, The Nation, The Washington Post, TPMCafe, and Alternet.^[2]

Valenti was named in March 2011 as one of The Guardian's top 100 women, for what the newspaper described as her pioneering work in bringing the feminist movement online and into the 21st century.^[3]

Background[link]

Valenti was raised in Long Island City, Queens in an Italian-American family. Her father was a Buddhist, and her mother introduced her to her first pro-choice march when she was 13. She received her master's degree in Women's and Gender Studies from Rutgers University.^[4] On October 3, 2009, she married Andrew Golis, the deputy publisher of Talking Points Memo.^[5] They have one daughter, born in 2010.

Writing and blogging[link]

Valenti founded Feministing as a source for feminist news and ideas by and for young feminists.^[6] It was created while she was working at the National Organization for Women's legal defense fund (now Legal Momentum), in response to what she described as "dismissal from older feminists."^[7] Homa Khaleeli writes in The Guardian that the site shifted the feminist movement online, triggering the creation of blogs and discussion groups, creating a heyday for feminism just as its death was being announced, as Khaleeli puts it. She writes that Valenti "felt the full force of being a pioneer," her involvement with the site attracting online abuse, even threats of rape and death.^[8]

University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor Ann Althouse criticized Feministing in 2006 for its sometimes sexualized content. Erin Matson of the National Organization for Women's Young Feminist Task Force told The Huffington Post the controversy was "a rehashing of a very old debate within the feminist community: is public sexuality empowering or harmful to women?"^[9]

Valenti decided to leave the site in February 2011, saying she wanted it to remain a place for younger feminists.^[10] In addition to her work appearing in newspapers and magazines, she is a contributing author to Courtney E. Martin and J. Courtney Sullivan's Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists (2010),^[11] Melody Berger's We Don't Need Another Wave (2008),^[12] and Diane Mapes's Single State of the Union (2007).^[13]

Books[link]

• (2007). Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters. Seal Press. ISBN 978-1-58005-201-6.
• (2008). He's a Stud, She's a Slut ... And 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know. Seal Press. ISBN 978-1-58005-245-0.
• with Friedman, Jaclyn (2008). Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape. Seal Press. ISBN 978-1-58005-257-3.
• (2009). The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women. Seal Press. ISBN 978-1-58005-253-5.

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• Jessica Valenti
• Feministing.com
• Huffington Post
• Scher, Bill (April 30, 2007). "Full Frontal Feminism" Author, Jessica Valenti: The IM Interview". The Blog. Liberal Oasis. http://www.liberaloasis.com/2007/04/full_frontal_feminism_author_j_1.php. 
• Barcella, Laura (April 24, 2007). "Full Frontal Feminism". Alternet. http://alternet.org/story/50843/. 
• Jess McCabe (May 7, 2008). "He’s a stud, she’s a slut?". The F-Word. http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2008/05/hes_a_stud_shes. 
• Pearse, Emma (April 29, 2007). "Q&A With 'Full Frontal Feminism' Author Jessica Valenti". New York Magazine. http://nymag.com/arts/books/features/31256/. 
• Solomon, Deborah (November 13, 2009). "Fourth-Wave Feminism: Questions for Jessica Valenti", The New York Times.