The Post’s TV/Radio columnist since 1982, Phil Mushnick joined the newspaper in 1973. He’s covered the Nets, Rangers and New York Cosmos.
Sometimes, all you can do is laugh. For the two weeks before the Super Bowl, the biggest unknown story was the condition of Patriots record-setting tight end Rob Gronkowski, hurting with a high ankle sprain. Just...
February 06, 2012 12:00 AM
I Feel a bad moon a-risin.’ Sooner or later — and we’re overdue — the winner of the NFL championship is going to be determined by some systemic, non-football absurdity, some ridiculous, unintended and irreversible use...
February 05, 2012 12:00 AM
Sure, the early birds get the worms. But not all of them! For the past 11 days you’ve been treated to — swamped by — the finest collection of human interest stories, data and predictions that can be pulled, prodded...
February 03, 2012 12:00 AM
Accidents happen. In new Knicks radio and TV man Spero Dedes, the local march of screaming shills and game-wreckers has been interrupted. Friday, for a second straight week because young old pro Mike Breen was...
January 30, 2012 12:00 AM
How many years has it been since the NFL, its contracted commercial sponsors and TV networks began to promote, present and provoke as its most preferred fans the very folks you would avoid like the plague they have...
January 29, 2012 12:00 AM
Second things first. My relationship with Joe Namath as a TV football analyst and in social settings has always produced, for me, at least, peculiar results. We were once seated at the same table at a formal fundraiser...
January 27, 2012 12:00 AM
It’s funny, in a not-so funny way. If, for the last dozen years, you were exclusively reliant on NFL pregame shows for your NFL news and opinions, you’d think the worst people in the game are on-field officials, who...
January 23, 2012 12:00 AM
Here are today’s Butterscotch ’n Chicken-Flavored Doritos Keys to the Telecasts: 1) Allow your eyes, not a stat sheet, to do your thinking for you. Last Sunday, FOX’s Joe Buck emphasized two stats: The Packers kept...
January 22, 2012 12:00 AMThere is nothing so wrong with the NFL’s officiating process and bloated rule book that couldn’t be fixed by a small, well-placed nuclear bomb. For all of the complaining around here last week, and the weeks and...
January 20, 2012 12:00 AM
That certainly was a great shot FOX had of 49ers tight end Vernon Davis, tears smearing his eye-black as he came off the field Saturday night, having caught the winning touchdown pass. But I had Davis beaten by two...
January 16, 2012 12:00 AMIf NBC and the newly renamed NBC Sports Network (nee Versus) want to be taken seriously as an NHL network, they have to grow up, demonstrate that they know and care about the game above and beyond serving drooling...
January 15, 2012 12:00 AMIf rights to big-time events were awarded based on quality of telecasts and not just money, ESPN would be hyping its upcoming, exclusive coverage of the Fixodent Last Roundup Super Senior Rodeo, Mid-East Regionals....
January 13, 2012 12:00 AM
If we were to conclude the greatest commercial invention is the snow globe, how well would they sell if their exclusive manufacturers decided to paint their outsides, so, no matter how hard you shook them, you couldn’t...
January 09, 2012 12:00 AM
The written and spoken autopsies of the Jets’ season thus far have not included what, to me, was the most enduring and revealing moment, one clearly captured by TV — on Fox — as reward for observing fundamental...
January 08, 2012 12:00 AM
Where do they find these guys? No, not the growing group of game announcers who destroy broadcasts, but the guys — the shot-callers — who hire, promote and sustain them. Then do it again, only a little worse....
December 23, 2011 12:00 AM
The Weak In Review: Now that ESPN owns a majority of our sports, we’d like to ask of it a small favor: Please try to preserve some of what you own. Try to leave some of the sport in our sports. For the kids. ESPN...
December 19, 2011 12:00 AM
Does it get any worse than these Penn State and Syracuse assistant coach stories, those making sustained big news? That depends on whether you consider the boss to be bigger and/or than the assistants. If so, then yes...
December 18, 2011 12:00 AM
Let’s not get too carried away, now. Though Tim Tebow makes an inspirational, follow-that-star, keep-football-in-Christmas story, he did not win Sunday’s game against the Bears. Neither did Matt Prater’s 59-yard...
December 16, 2011 12:00 AM
The scam is so pervasive, so perverse and so damned obvious, any other business would have been closed down decades ago. Big-time, TV money-driven college football and basketball are so greedy and unethical — our...
December 12, 2011 12:00 AMHas there ever been a time when suspension of common sense has been more vital to sustaining your interest in sports? Every week is loaded with the sense-defying. Tuesday, on and for ESPN2, Memphis at Miami was being...
December 11, 2011 12:00 AM
A new book about Howard Cosell, written by Mark Ribowsky, has inspired a lot of opinions, recollections and discussion. I knew Cosell well. Too well. So here’s my abridged version: To be a kid columnist summoned for...
December 09, 2011 12:00 AM
What is it with these people? Why are the only ideas they come up with bad ones? And why are other networks so eager to copy them? Judging from Saturday’s North Carolina-Kentucky game, the college basketball opener...
December 05, 2011 12:00 AM
Forget, for a moment, if you can, what anyone might’ve actually seen as it relates to a smoking gun or even what was allegedly seen behind the steam in a shower room. The recent scandals alleging serial pedophilia...
December 04, 2011 12:00 AM
It’s enough to make you cry. And it’s enough to make you cry out, “Enough!” Funny thing about live sports telecasts is that the throw-away shots — the meaningless, habit-formed junk shots — can show up as the most...
December 02, 2011 12:00 AM
Ancient Rome, with HOV lanes. I wish there were someone in charge to let us know if this is how football will be played until further notice. Yep, another week in which football grew closer to looking...
November 28, 2011 12:00 AM
What a shame that Ryan Braun, last week named the National League MVP, didn’t take a few seconds to give credit where credit is deserved. Braun, after all, became a lock to win the award even before the season began,...
November 27, 2011 12:00 AM
What sets CBS’ Phil Simms apart from — and above — TV’s other NFL analysts doesn’t reveal itself when he’s right or when he speaks sense, but when he’s wrong and when he speaks nonsense. Sunday, deep into the first...
November 25, 2011 12:00 AM
I know I’m asking a lot, but do TV people ever stop to consider what they do? Do they ever think about doing it differently? Better? Smarter? All day and night Saturday, college football telecasts were presented the...
November 21, 2011 12:00 AMIt may be a story the media don’t want to do deal with because we’re afraid it might be true. I know I’m afraid it’s true. This NBA thing? No one cares. Well, not no one, but certainly not enough to establish...
November 20, 2011 12:00 AM
There’s nothing like a funeral to bring out the fakers, phonies and frauds. At Joe Frazier’s funeral in Philadelphia on Monday, America’s Stage Hog, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, delivered one of the eulogies. Jackson...
November 18, 2011 12:00 AM
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