Author, Recovering Sports Writer, TV Talking Head (@ESPN 2015-18, @WashingtonPost 2004-15, @NYTimes 1994-2004), Dad X 3. Guested on Every Program Known to Man.
Oct 15, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
You can't make some of this up:
"In 2014, Allen sent Pash an article that said Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington — a vocal critic of the team’s name — had attended a high school that still had a mascot with Native American imagery.
Pash responded: “No way. Too good to be true
This is the Washington Football Team's then president and the NFL's top lawyer talking. It wasn't just a cozy relationship, the NYT story details, it was a flat-out bromance in which Jeff Pash compromised league ethics and objectivity. He has to step down.
Oct 15, 2021 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
I was just told by someone I implicitly trust that I was mentioned in a 2014 email by Bruce Allen. And it was ugly, the worst thing anybody’s ever said about me. And half of it I’m sure is true. If a more intrepid reporter than me can get a copy, please, I’d like to frame it.
I could go off on Bruce for stooping so low he and Dan anonymously shamed a recovering alcoholic to get rid of him. That a guy who accused others of drinking on the job could empty half of cooler of beer in his office by 3. “Bruce gets up and brushes his teeth with Coors Light,”
Oct 13, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Holy crap, @WilliamShatner did it! With the help of @JeffBezos and some incredible ingenuity from the private space-flight industry, he did it! “Space, the final frontier…” #CaptainKirk
This is an incredible retelling of Shatner’s journey into space — really, why we all need to see and feel it. Nice work @WapoDavenport. Yes, it’s been way too long and I want my copy of your new book signed. : )
8 people arrested or charged under Trump: Michael Flynn, Michael Cohen, Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, George Papadopoulos, Steve Bannon, Roger Stone & George Nader, who was sentenced in June to 10 years for possessing child pornography and bringing a boy to the United States for sex
And then there was the bizarre story of his former campaign manager Brad Parscale, who was hospitalized after barricading himself in his Ft. Lauderdale home with 10 guns in late Sept., his wife calling police worried he would harm himself. local10.com/news/local/202…
Oct 31, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
It took 98 days to reach 1 mil. U.S. coronavirus cases; it’s taken 14 days to reach another million. If it hasn’t happened already, someone close to you will die. This election is the pandemic. Period. Please Mr. Pres. don’t say dr.s are rooting for more deaths to make more money
Please, Mr. President, don’t repeal the Affordable Care Act because of your contempt for @BarackObama. Instead, think of the millions it provided protections for, those with pre-existing conditions, people soon on ventilators who need preventive health care services. Please.
Oct 21, 2020 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
This a disturbing thread about the only way Donald Trump can win re-election -- really, the only way he won in 2016. It's what happens when a social media collossus like Facebook allows warped people to manufacture well-done videos and front them as "investigative journalism."
Last week a FB friend from high school sent me this, asking how a journalist like me could ever support @KamalaHarris after she "failed to prosecute Planned Parenthood in California for harvesting and trafficking body parts of late-term aborted fetuses." facebook.com/ksjax99/videos…
Jul 29, 2020 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
I'm really happy Adam Silver, the commissioner of the NBA, is getting kudos over his ability to keep his players safe. He and everyone who has worked hard not to test positive for Covid in Orlando deserve it. But I am having trouble with this gleeful rejoicing over "The Bubble."
Because, when it comes down to it, that's what it is -- a bubble. It doesn't reflect the real world. It doesn't reflect what's happening in society or, for that matter, mere miles from the area Disney has partnered with the NBA to cordon off from Orlando and Central Florida.
Apr 2, 2019 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
True story: Cavs cheerleader came up to me during ‘96 Knicks game. Said, “Are you Mike Wise from The NY Times? OMG, I read everything you write.” I went to talk to her after game and she blew me off. I walked into locker room. Patrick Ewing looked up and smiled: “April Fools.”
This was probably the greatest April Fool’s joke ever played on me. It was perpetrated by @meanbarb and Former Knicks PR director Lori Hamamoto, who got the cheerleader and Ewing to go along with the prank. And I actually thought, “Wow, attractive Cavs cheerleader reads me. Yay!”
