Mike+Wise,+WA+Post

Please read this short bio on Mike Wise (REQUIRED reading):
Mike Wise is a sports columnist for //The Washington Post//, who has been with the paper since May 2004. He was previously at The New York Times for 10 years, where he covered the Knicks and the NBA. He’s covered 13 NBA finals, two World Series, a Super Bowl, an America’s Cup, and four of the last five Olympiads. Mike is the co-author of two books: //Shaq Talks Back//, with Shaquille O’Neal, a New York Times bestseller; and //Just Ballin’, the Chaotic Rise of the New York Knicks//, with //New York Daily News// reporter Frank Isola. On television, he appears weekly on Comcast’s “//Washington Post// Live” and is a regular guest on ESPN’s //Rome is Burning//, //Countdown// with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC and CNN. He has also appeared on the //Charlie Rose Show//, the //McNeil/Lehrer Report//, //The Today Show// and //Good Morning America//. He is also a regular guest on Washington's WTEM radio Sportstalk 980. Mike was born in Napa, Calif, and moved to Hawaii when he was 12. He grew up in Ewa Beach and graduated from Campbell High School in 1982. After playing basketball at Hawaii Pacific and American River colleges (he only went in the game when his team was up or down 20), he graduated from Fresno State University in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts in journalism. He began his career at the Sanger Herald, a tiny weekly newspaper southeast of Fresno. He worked at the now-defunct Sacramento Union for five years, where he covered high school sports, boxing and the NBA. After the paper folded in 1994, he worked briefly as a part-time copy editor at the San Jose Mercury News before he got his big break. The New York Times hired him that summer. Mike has won numerous Associated Press Sports Editors writing awards, including first place in the 2006 feature category for his revealing portrait of Gilbert Arenas and the mother who abandoned him as an infant. He finished fourth in the APSE column writing competition this past year.
 * // Washington Post //**** Writer Mike Wise **

**Please read these links (REQUIRED for preparation for videoconference with Mike Wise):**
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/28/AR2006102800830.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/27/sports/on-pro-basketball-when-magic-came-to-my-court.html

****Please read these links if you have time (OPTIONAL for preparation for videoconference with Mike Wise):****
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/21/AR2008062101871.html and http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040102203.html