More About Mike Barber
Mike Barber has covered Virginia Tech athletics for the Richmond Times-Dispatch since February, 2012. Barber spent nine years as the James Madison football beat writer at the Daily News-Record in Harrisonburg, where he also was the assistant sports editor.
Barber, a 2001 Rutgers University graduate, previously worked at Major League Baseball’s publishing department in New York and interned at the Newark Star-Ledger in New Jersey.
A native of Park Ridge, N.J., the 33-year-old Barber lives in Blacksburg with his beagle, Seven. He also is a part-owner of a Harrisonburg restaurant.
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