Michael Schiavello has been a well-known sports commentator on pay television networks in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States of America. He coordinated the commentary of the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. Schiavello supplied photographs for Sunset : Poem (1995) by Lauren Williams (q.v.), and published Bouncer! : Real Life Stories (1998), being transcribed anecdotes. He also edited A Century of Soccer (2000) and wrote Celebrity Fitness Secrets Revealed (date unknown). He has also been the editor of International Kickboxer magazine. At the age of twenty-three Schiavello became the youngest writer to be included in the CUB / Random House Best Australian Sports Writing Awards.
