Washington Post sports columnist Mike Wise has been suspsended from the paper for a month after using Twitter for a practical joke and, more to the point, abusing his privilege as beat reporter.
Mr. Wise tweeted a fabricated news item about Ben Roethlisberger’s supsension yesterday — “Roethlisberger will get five games, I’m told” — Read More
Just before Christmas, New York Times sports reporter Mike Wise, who’d spent the better part of a decade at the side of Pat Riley and Shaquille O’Neal, Latrell Sprewell and the pre-rape suspect and Nutella pitch man Kobe Bryant, got an e-mail from Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, editor of The Washington Post ‘s sports section. Mr. Garcia-Ruiz-himself Read More
For months, the sportswriters who cover the New York Knicks have been feuding with one another in print. And with the team’s surprising playoff run and organizational chaos in recent weeks, the feuding has only gotten more intense, more bitter. If columnists could be called for fouls for what they put into the newspaper, then Read More
I used to hate basketball. I come from a long line of jocks and was constantly encouraged (and sometimes forced) to go out for swimming or softball or what have you. But, having achieved my present height of 6 feet by my 13th birthday, the constant nagging about whether I could or would play basketball Read More
