Lou Orando, in a maroon blazer, holding a microphone with a Fordham University logo, sitting on steps in front of shelves of Pop-Tarts boxes.

Lou Orlando

Play-by-Play Broadcaster, Writer, Sports Journalist

Lou Orlando is a freelance play-by-play broadcaster and sports journalist. He currently writes for Sports Illustrated, covering women’s basketball and the Indiana Fever. He also covers the New York Rangers, NHL, and PWHL for Forever Blueshirts and Pucknaut.

He graduated with a BA in Journalism from Fordham University (Fordham College of Rose Hill ‘25), where he spent all four years working at the university’s legendary radio station, WFUV.