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Mike Wise

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Mike Wise

@MikeWiseguy

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.

USA 🇺🇸 , Panama 🇵🇦

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Joined June 2009

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Mike Wise
@MikeWiseguy
Jan 21
If @karolineleavitt, or any PR person from anywhere, called me a left-wing hack and went off on me after asking a legit question, I’d tell she’s a disgrace to her job and to go to hell. This WH press corps is gutless. They don’t even stand up for one another. Some free press, no.
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Mike Wise
@MikeWiseguy
Nov 6, 2024
It's not just that Trump won. It's that Joe Rogan, Dana White and Brett Favre won. Jailed insurrectionists won. The Alitos and the Thomases won. Vladimir Putin won. Racism won. Misogyny won. Sexism won. Global warming won. Xenophobia won. Most of all: Fear Won. That's what hurts.
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Mike Wise
@MikeWiseguy
Apr 2, 2019
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.”
Mike Wise
@MikeWiseguy
Jul 13, 2018
My dog died Tuesday. She was almost 12-1/2. Her name was Looly. I pulled her out of a frozen canal 10 yrs ago before I was pulled out. But the truth is she saved me from a very hollow, inauthentic, unfulfilled life. I have no need to say anything anymore in this space for a while
Mike Wise
@MikeWiseguy
Jan 30, 2020
Gene Hackman was 56 years old when “Hoosiers” was released in 1986. Today he turns 90. Happy Birthday, Coach Norman Dale. All right you Hoosier hysteria hoopheads, best scene or line from the movie?
Mike Wise
@MikeWiseguy
Jan 6, 2021
A man preaching at the same church Martin Luther King, Jr., preached — and John Lewis bowed his head at — just said this about his mother: “The 82-year-old hands that used to pick somebody else’s cotton went to the polls and picked her youngest son to be a United States Senator.”
Mike Wise
@MikeWiseguy
Nov 1, 2017
Colin Kaepernick has done it now, taking dollars away from the billionaire founder of a pizza franchise. I'll alert the media. #PapaJohns
Mike Wise
@MikeWiseguy
Feb 9, 2017
True story: Charles Oakley once slapped a player (not Barkley) who owed him money. "How'd he react?" I asked him. Oak: "He stayed slapped."
Mike Wise
@MikeWiseguy
Jul 30, 2024
Checked out #WhiteDudesForKamala Zoom call — purely as a former NYT/WaPo journalist wondering why 150K Caucasian men raised almost $4 mil. for a Black woman to be President. Answer: “We have daughters,” including Young Skywalker, @MarkHamill. (OK, a couple fanboys showed up)
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Mike Wise
@MikeWiseguy
Jun 5, 2017
Cavs locker room has a strong reefer aroma to it tonight. Hey, it's Cali. You're down 2-0 and it's all about pain control. #NBAFinals
Mike Wise
@MikeWiseguy
Apr 2, 2019
Replying to @MikeWiseguy
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!”
Mike Wise
@MikeWiseguy
Jun 17, 2016
If I'm Ayesha, I say I got hacked by Riley.
Mike Wise
@MikeWiseguy
Jan 18, 2023
Replying to @joncoopertweets
I’ve got 15 — Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Texas, Iowa, Oklahoma, Ohio, Indiana, Arkansas, Idaho, North Dakota, Kentucky, Florida.
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Mike Wise
@MikeWiseguy
Mar 10, 2017
If you anonymously leaked an employee's alleged problems with alcohol to save face amid his firing, you're a gutless, soulless human necktie