Mike Wise
Washington Post
Washington, DC, United States
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Past articles by Mike:
Jon Gruden is collateral damage. Where’s the accountability for Dan Snyder?
While Gruden's career is ending, other findings of the NFL investigation remain buried — and the Washington team owner remains unscathed. → Read More
Holding the Tokyo Olympics amid the covid pandemic threat is about corporate revenue, not the athletes
The right thing to do amid rising infections would have been to move everything back an additional year so that Tokyo 2020 became Tokyo 2022. → Read More
Tiger Woods won’t let go of being Tiger — because we won’t let him
A golf comeback shouldn't be the most important part of his life. → Read More
Mark Cuban had it right the first time. Sports should stop playing the anthem.
Games don’t need to include nationalism. → Read More
LeBron James’s legacy off the court may ultimately mean more than what he did on it
LeBron James is not just the NBA’s first Mr. October; he’s a player and a man for all seasons. → Read More
John Thompson led Black America’s basketball team
“Big John” didn’t care if being woke made him broke. He refused to be a homogenized, palatable Black man to appease ill-intentioned White America. → Read More
Wise: Kobe's farewell was heartfelt, humorous and emotionally-wrenching goodbye to a legend and his daughter
Kobe Bryant's public memorial service at Staples Center was filled with hilarious anecdotes, heartfelt tributes and, most of all, raw, searing heartbreak. → Read More
Wise: Through hockey, Alexander the Great showed us what real love and commitment means
Oh, did we mention Alex Ovechkin is from Russia, which hasn't been very nice to us, like, for centuries? → Read More
60 years after working alongside Medgar Evers, Eleanor Holmes Norton is a living part of black history
Congresswoman Norton still takes time to read to children and tell them, amid all the hate, that there is real progress in hope. → Read More
Wise: Virginia, as long as you let kids wear Confederate flags to school, you'll go down as 'The Lost Cause'
The Franklin County School Board rejected a proposal to ban students from wearing the Confederate flag on school property. → Read More
Wise: Chiefs' chant is cultural appropriation, racist and just wrong
Kansas City fans passionate fans will be on full display for Super Bowl Sunday. → Read More
Wise: Covering the death of Kobe
How much reporting of Bryant’s felony sexual assault case in 2003 is too much? → Read More
From hero to villain and back again, Kobe Bryant took us all on a thrill ride that ended much too soon
From a 19-year-old wunderkind to a creaky kneed veteran who loved being a dad -- and all the good and bad in between -- these are my memories of Mamba. → Read More
From hero to villain and back again, Kobe Bryant took us all on a journey that ended much too soon
From a 19-year-old wunderkind to a creaky kneed veteran who loved being a dad -- and all the good and bad in between -- these are Mike Wise's memories of Mamba. → Read More
Wise: Anticipation over sports gambling in DC has one minus: parting with your money and possibly your sanity
Legalization of sports betting in D.C. could ruin lives. → Read More
Girls wrestling grows nationally, but Virginia still has yet to form a female-only high school league
A pilot program for girls-only tournaments could change that with large turnouts. Meanwhile, determined wrestlers, who happen to be female, are still waiting. → Read More
Wise: Morgan Wootten was the high school coach that time forgot
If the D.C. area lost its prep hoops patriarch, the nation lost one of its last links to a youth basketball world now co-opted by Nike and AAU Summer Leagues. → Read More
Wise: Gun violence is the burden of white, American men who own, shoot and kill more than any other race
White men in America own twice as many guns as non-white men. → Read More
Commentary: Jack Evans will be remembered as the public servant was more interested in serving himself than those who voted for him
On Jan. 7, three days ahead of the actual vote to kick him out, Evans resigned, essentially putting in his two weeks after three decades serving Ward 2 and the city. → Read More
K Street homeless tent encampment closed for good
Nearly 40 displaced homeless people tried chaotically to beat D.C.'s 10 a.m. move-it-or-lose it deadline, as the city cleared and cleaned the NoMa underpass. → Read More