Mike Tokito

When NCAA tourney is in town, I always get flashbacks to 2012, when it was here and Blazers had one of those blow-up-the-season days, firing Nate McMillan, trading Marcus Camby and Gerald Wallace. Team had to do media stuff in offices because NCAA took over whole arena. Wild day!

@BenGolliver @washingtonpost @PostSports Best wishes, Ben.

Thanks to @washingtonpost @PostSports for seven rewarding years. Played hard until the buzzer. Final score: 1,500+ stories, 50+ million pageviews, two Olympics, one “Bubble,” seven NBA Finals, one book and countless incredible colleagues and editors.

@CandaceDBuckner Not shocked, but also very shocked. You had a great run, Candace. Happy trails, buddy!

I guess democracy has died, y’all Well at least, the greatest sports section in all the land has… Like so many of my amazingly talented friends & colleagues, my time at the washington post is over. Inconceivable that this was the decision for our section. But onward.

🚨 THEY JUST ADMITTED IT: "NO AUTOPSY" 🚨 LISTEN CLOSELY to the dispatch audio: “He did not go in for an autopsy. The death certificate was signed by the doctor at the hospital.” No autopsy. Signed off inside the hospital. A political assassination. A homicide. An active investigation. Charlie Kirk's body was evidence. Especially in a case this questionable. What don’t they want the public to know??

@NickKrupke @TheGolfFarm @fox12oregon Hearing Brian and Amy really takes me back to my sportswriting days. Good people. Nice story, Nick!

Brian Henninger played in the 1995 Masters, now in 2025 the Oregonian is helping grow the game back home @TheGolfFarm @fox12oregon kptv.com/2025/04/10/2-t…

This thing with Ichiro being one vote shy of unanimous HOF reminds me of when a Toronto broadcaster was the lone voter who kept Brandon Roy from being unanimous Rookie of the Year. At least that voter came forward

@Lindsay_Schnell @TheAthletic That's awesome, congrats! Will get to read your stuff regularly again.

Some personal news, as the cool kids say: so so SO excited to share that today is my first day at @TheAthletic. I’m joining the A team as a senior writer covering college hoops.

You know, it would nice if the news about the Blazers' next TV home is broken by a local reporter instead those two national dudes.

I think after France beat Fiji in the Rugby 7s gold medal game, you can pretty much cancel the rest of the Olympics. It's not going to get better than that!

@tysonalger This is a really fun story. Thorns are honestly the most interesting thing happening in Portland sports right now.

In three weeks, Rob Gale hasn't just taken the Portland Thorns from the NWSL basement into the thick of contention -- he's also helped Christine Sinclair reclaim her love for the game. “Make sure you comment on his suits, OK?” We did. Story here: i-5corridor.com/p/christine-si…

@CHold @IanKarmel If I ever need to summarize my final three or so years as a full-time sportswriter, I'm just gonna copy and paste this.

@IanKarmel Three paragraph trade rumor blog post that takes 10 minutes agregativing something someone said in passing that will never happen: thousands of views Carefully reported 3000 word story that you spend weeks working on and suffering over: hundreds of views

every time I post something like "i bet frankenstein's monster has a smoking hog" it gets a bunch of likes and retweets and when i post about shows I can literally hear a lonely cough and someone politely shutting a door

@SteveMimsPBC Sigh ...

Twice in a week the local paper showed its lack of local knowledge.

@CHold Good times! What a fun era that was.

Andre Miller having his consecutive games streak ended because he got suspended for trucking Blake Griffin is one of the greatest stories in Trail Blazers' lore

@travisdemers @trailblazers Here's hoping you're still working for a bunch more weeks this time next year.

Year 5 (full, 6th total) is in the books. Thank you to everyone in Rip City for making this the best job in the world. See you in the fall!! #ripcity @trailblazers

@tysonalger I know you posted this for other reasons, but this serves as a commentary on how barren local media is. In 1994, I ACTUALLY COVERED THIS TEAM all summer for what was then the local Portland newspaper.

TIL sports in Portland peaked in 1994.

@blazers_palace This is an awesome thread. A few other names: Brandon Brooks, Luke Jackson, Brian Jackson, Michael Dunleavy Jr.

Can us Oregonians agree these are the best basketball players to ever come out of Oregon?

@AndrewGreif This crap never ends, does it? So sorry, Andrew. You're way too good to not land somewhere that deserves you.

This isn't the kind of report I was planning to publish today: I'm among those laid off at the L.A. Times. I'm grateful for five-plus years at the best job I've ever had.

Fubo sent an email saying it is raising its basic monthly rate by $5 and regional sports fee by $1. There's only one reason anyone around here gets Fubo, and that reason isn't playing well right now. Maybe consider waiting until May to raise your rates, Fubo?

@tysonalger This would just be a TV production meeting now.

The CFP era has been a trip.

@tysonalger @TedMillerRK Wow, oh wow, some of Ted's quotes about his layoff really hit home. Awesome idea and interview, Tyson. Subscribe y'all!

Wouldn't seem right to let the Pac-12 go out without seeing what @TedMillerRK had to say. On Ducks/Huskies II, the conspiracy against USC and finding life after ESPN's Pac-12 Blog. i-5corridor.com/p/ted-miller-h…