Phil Mushnick
The Archive
Lil Wayne entry sends sports TV past point of no return
You don't think I’m tired of writing this stuff, too?
TV broadcasts are focused on all the wrong things
By now one would think that the head of every network’s sports division would have long ago insisted that his or her charges promote the games rather than what’s killing...
Gimmicky in-season tournament can't hide this ugly fact about NBA
Given that they’re fooling no one except the few fools left who can afford to be suckered, it’s time to cut it out.
Antonio Pierce's promotion to Raiders head coach an embarrassment for NFL
A more discriminate, cautious chief executive would not have allowed this, and the Raiders, knowing that Goodell would never indulge such, wouldn’t have even tried it.
Roger Goodell's shameless PSL-hocking ways are his latest money grab
Not that many noticed, but there it was: the collision of Roger Goodell’s media-compliant, make-it-up-as-he-slithers-along, $70 million per reign.
Sports overrun with worst of fans, media, leadership
Why bother trying to hide the conspicuous? Why not at least try, “Cut it out or get out”? But nothing. Pretend there’s no problem and carry on.
Common sense doesn't exist for television-wrecking sports broadcasters
Now that we’ve identified the indisputable — TV spends 10 times more to make telecasts 10 times worse — what do we do about it?
Memorable car ride with late Orioles icon still seems impossible
I wound up with Fran Healy, Harmon Killebrew, Ralph Kiner and Brooks Robinson in my old man’s Chrysler. Mushnick’s Believe It Or Not.
High-priced sports analysts don’t know when to shut up
If TV networks weren’t proud of their profound ignorance and fiscal insanity, their offices wouldn’t be large or gaudy — they’d be like broom closets.
Radio and TV sports broadcasters simply aren't doing a good job
Sports media announcers have completely lost the plot, The Post's Phil Mushnick writes.
Safety becomes the latest reasonable standard trampled by NFL
And to think that the only mortal danger of the “NFL Experience” used to be getting run over by “a fan” driving home loaded.
ESPN’s 'guerilla' tactics are not same for every announcer
They fired him. Right after the telecast last Friday night. They told him to get out and stay out. It had to be done. Wait, they didn't.
Another analytics lover in the Bronx would be disastrous move for Yankees
So the speculation has begun on who will replace Yankees manager Aaron Boone next season, when and if the team humanely releases him from his and fans’ misery.
Sportsbook company desecrates memory of 9/11, and it's met with silence
Our sports have become so warped that the natural moral outrage that should shame the perpetrators has been replaced by a distant whisper.
This NFL analyst painfully loves to hear himself talk
Even in our little multi-billion dollar world of sports, common sense has been lost as a matter of policy and imagined populism.
The device every fan needs to deal with sports media insanity
I’ve at last found a remedy for the preposterous stuff we hear and see while trying to endure modern sports.
Absurd US Open practice shows enjoying sports growing more difficult, costly
From trying to get an affordable U.S. Open experience to watching the big-pocket Mets sulk at the bottom of the league, sports are growing increasingly harder to watch.
Sports broadcasts continually choose stupidity over logic
Welcome to “Fat Chance,” the sports game show that punishes common sense and rewards ignorance!
Football's return brings back this insufferable byproduct
Welcome to last season. And all the seasons before that.
Sports keeps barreling toward its inevitable end
It’s the equivalent of watching sports fade to darkness in the grip of the grim reaper. There’s nothing we can do about it, so why fight it?