Thor Tolo

Childhood dreams: Broadcast TV news/sports in Top 15 markets. Check. Anchor Minnesota Vikings Radio Network. Check. Teach at Big 10 University. Check.

[Thor Tolo @thortolo]

Michele for United States Senate in my home state of Minnesota for reasons too obvious to mention. (OK I'll mention it: common sense!)

[Michele Tafoya @Michele_Tafoya]

I recently met a girl whose team lost the state softball championship.

The winning team had a biological male pitching.

Girls who have worked their entire lives for these moments deserve fairness and opportunity, not far-left politicians who are hell-bent on injecting radical ideology into sports.

[Thor Tolo @thortolo]

@Riley_Gaines_ breaks all the rules of public speaking - gym shorts, sneakers, sockless, leaning on podium, filler words ("um" "uh" "y'know") - yet delivers tonight @uwnews the most powerful presentation I've heard. Key takeaway: Always about authenticity, passion, and #COURAGE

[Michael Shermer @michaelshermer]

University presidents everywhere need to embrace this simple statement by Ben Sasse, President of the University of Florida:

"At the University of Florida, we have repeatedly, patiently explained two things to protesters: We will always defend your rights to free speech and free assembly—but if you cross the line on clearly prohibited activities, you will be thrown off campus and suspended. In Gainesville, that means a three-year prohibition from campus. That’s serious. We said it. We meant it. We enforced it. We wish we didn’t have to, but the students weighed the costs, made their decisions, and will own the consequences as adults. We’re a university, not a daycare. We don’t coddle emotions, we wrestle with ideas."
https://t.co/z3TCWnh2i9

[Thor Tolo @thortolo]

Your overwhelming success with the Wild alone exonerates all your good-faith efforts and work product. Impossible to overstate everything you meant to our KFAN programming 25+ years ago. Bravo!

[Kevin Falness @RadioFalness]

@Chris_Hawkey @Eworm_jim @KFAN1003 my internship can be summed up into two words: Thor Tolo.

@thortolo would agree that was the lesson of a lifetime!!! 😍

[Thor Tolo @thortolo]

@BS_Cleveland Mike Morris, long-snapper early '90s, heavy metal music lover

[Thor Tolo @thortolo]

@ChuckForeman is as wonderfully kind a person as he was phenomenally versatile as a @Vikings running back. Beyond belatedly, but @ProFootballHOF should be knocking on his door someday soon. #44 deserves to be there. Chuck redefined his position

[Chuck Foreman @ChuckForeman]

could run it or catch it

[Thor Tolo @thortolo]

Proud to teach Strategic Business Communication for University of Washington! UW number 6 in the world, according to U.S. News Best Global Universities https://t.co/n7Xe6De6QX

[Thor Tolo @thortolo]

On a day the Queen is laid to rest, memories range from Winnipeg to Windsor Castle, from pro football's finest coach & future @Vikings Hall Of Famer Bud Grant to many of the NFL's greatest like @ChuckForeman & @Kramer9Tommy. Counting down to tonight's 2017 NFC title game rematch.

[Thor Tolo @thortolo]

Minutes to kickoff on a gorgeous evening @Seahawks vs @Broncos. Your Super Bowl in The Big Apple seems like just yesterday. Let's go! @ESPNNFL

[Thor Tolo @thortolo]

@BrooksBarr @plbsports @stefondiggs @BuffaloBills @JoshAllenQB @OCHBuffalo Thursday morning exclusively at @Wegmans! Stock up for @BuffaloBills season.

[Thor Tolo @thortolo]

My pal Ty Ballou has his @plbsports
on another NFL roll w/ @stefondiggs 14 Hot Sauce, Blue Cheese Dressing, Lemon Pepper Spice & Spicy Blue Cheese Dip delighting @BuffaloBills fans. @JoshAllenQB's Jaqs cereal is back to again support @OCHBuffalo Children's Hospital. Way to go Ty!

[Thor Tolo @thortolo]

Whatever you do in your life - every day, any day - do it with the passion @sigmas brings to her photography!

[Sigma Sreedharan @sigmas]

One more from tonight in #Seattle. Doesn't this @AlaskaAir flight look like it is taking off from the moon?

[Thor Tolo @thortolo]

Wow, @UW knows how to pamper our biggest stars. Love @DubsUW Next up: Golden Flashes of Kent State Saturday night off the lake! @UWFosterSchool

[Dubs @DubsUW]

Shedding season lines up perfectly with football season! Have to feel light to lead the runout! 🐾

[Thor Tolo @thortolo]

Who else do you know who's coached men's & women's basketball, golf, softball & baseball (winning record v. ex-MLB players). Oh, he fathered triplets. A loyal friend since our @Concordia_MN college days as courtside broadcasters. Still climbing the legend ladder. One in a million

[Steve Wammer @Steve_Wammer]

Feeling humbled and proud right now! #SharpenTheAx

[Thor Tolo @thortolo]

@joycalhio Whole PR picture proves ripe for my strategic communication case study. Our specific focuses happen to be apples & oranges. Apple is your focus on NFL's PR strategy. Orange (perfect as team color) is my focus on Haslam's & Watson's jawdropping failure to "get it." Simple as that.

[Thor Tolo @thortolo]

@NoWearMan714 @MarkCor28 @BurdsIVue @Vince_Cellini So what would Stefanski do assuming it were his decision to make with almost a quarter billion dollars drowning the elephant in the room? Rather than quibble over conceptual semantics of "problem" (synonymous with "complication"), do you bail on Jacoby if he's 9-2 as starting QB?

[Thor Tolo @thortolo]

Today's disaster of a #browns news conference will for years be a case study in my university PR classes on how NOT to strategically communicate. @BurdsIVue nails Watson's chuckle as a true omg moment. @Vince_Cellini correctly calls all of this "a stain" on the city he grew up in

[b cunningham @BurdsIVue]

"we gave kareem hunt another chance ok?"

then he chuckled. my goddddd

[Thor Tolo @thortolo]

@MarkCor28 @BurdsIVue @Vince_Cellini Cleveland is among my favorite cities in the world. No town is stain-less. Long a fan of irony, though, yesterday's was a public relations mistake not even Modell would've made. Going 3-8 wouldn't be biggest problem before Houston. It'd be going 9-2. Then what does Stefanski do?

[Thor Tolo @thortolo]

Positively breathtaking #BlueAngels captained by @Concordia_MN alum Brian Kesselring ('00). Stunning photo credit goes to @sigmas atop Magnolia

[Sigma Sreedharan @sigmas]

And here's a #BlueAngels shot from today! I went up to Magnolia to see if I can get them a bit closer to #SpaceNeedle and sure I did :) A lot of heat distortion in the air, from the long distance between me and the subject, but happy with the shot. #Seattle #Seafair2022