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.
What would happen to big-time college sports if, say, just half of the TV experts told the truth? During the second half of UConn-Michigan on ABC/ESPN on Saturday, analyst Matt Millen concluded a chat about Michigan’s...
September 07, 2010 3:55 AM
Nothing changes. ESPN's battalion of net works, news outlets, magazines, applications, texts, twitters and tweets, in HD, 3D and Vizio, spend the entire year covering football. Yet, when the football season arrives,...
September 05, 2010 12:00 AM
Hail, the Gang-wear's Here! Part 2,010: When there's no shame, it's easy. And where there's money and TV, there's no shame. No doubt on Nike's money-on-a-stick orders, the Virginia Tech football team this Monday night...
September 03, 2010 12:00 AMJust in case you were on the fence as to whether the world has gone nuts ... In the first quarter of Friday night's Redskins-Jets game, CBS inserted a taped profile with new Jets defensive back Antonio Cromartie. At...
August 30, 2010 12:00 AMFor all their in-game promotions, YES' Yankees and SNY's Mets postgame shows are decidedly, predictably and even tediously one-sided. They're like driving your kid home from his or her Little League game. Monday's...
August 27, 2010 12:00 AMThursday, the moment the Roger Clemens indictment hit the street, the rationalizations and obfuscations began, ranging from "Doesn't the government have anything better to do with its time and our money, we all know MLB...
August 23, 2010 12:00 AMBud Selig, a transparent populist with a great regard for ticket sales at any cost, has given the Reds permission to honor banned-from-baseball Pete Rose next month in an on-field ceremony to commemorate the 25th...
August 22, 2010 3:47 AMRoger Clemens? Roger Clemens? Hmmm. Sounds familiar, but, er, no, can’t say we here at the Yankees’ network know anything about him. First Joe Torre, now Clemens. Whoosh! They’re gone. Of all things Yankees, big and...
August 20, 2010 1:53 AMWhen I first saw black-and-white footage of Bobby Thomson, “The Flying Scot,” running the bases, first to third, it looked carbon-copy familiar — baggy pants legs flapping, long-leg fast. He ran just the way my best...
August 18, 2010 2:08 AMSee how good TV can be? All you need is a camera, a microphone and access. Oh, and the active curiosity to find out why. The colossal Dustin Johnson mess at the close of regulation in the PGA Championship yesterday...
August 16, 2010 12:00 AMIt's a language called “Golflish,” and no executive producer is powerful enough or inclined to mute it, let alone stamp it out before it lives another day. Golflish is spoken only by announcers to national TV audiences...
August 15, 2010 3:52 AMI feel a bad moon a-risin'. Starting Sept. 14, WFAN's Craig Carton and Boomer Esiason show will be simulcast on television on MSG Network. Hmmm. Questions: With Carton often reliant on name-calling, put-downs...
August 13, 2010 12:00 AM
Although we're often reminded that this is the nation's most sophisticated sports town -- boo ya! -- it sure hasn't seemed that way, not in a long time. The folks who run the shows now regard New York as they do...
August 09, 2010 12:00 AMPerhaps the biggest difference in baseball from what it was, oh, 40 years ago, is how The Game's stewards steer, specifically how they regard and treat kids, their fundamental sense of right from wrong. Well, that...
August 06, 2010 12:00 AM
Funny thing, rooting interests. Funny, too, how TV, which always used to provide audiences the best seat in the house, still now and then succeeds. Saturday, I became a big fan of Tigers catcher Gerald Laird. I...
August 02, 2010 12:00 AM
The mark of modern sports stewardship has become the leaders' ability to grab our wallets with one hand, shove us into traffic with the other, and still be able to stare into a TV camera and say that we owe him no...
August 01, 2010 12:00 AMBig-time college sports is a lot like the weather, the Mets and big oil spills -- everybody talks about it, but no one does anything about it. As heard on 1050-AM, Wednesday, ESPN Radio's Colin Cowherd interviewed...
July 30, 2010 12:00 AM
Show of hands: How many would like to be at a ballgame seated beside a fellow (or between fellows) who kept leaning toward you, giving you his take on almost every pitch and swing? How many of you turn on a...
July 26, 2010 12:00 AM
How IS it, Jethro, that TV folk figure we don't notice what we can't miss? Part I: Most everywhere you turn, lately, someone's lecturing on how big league umpiring is worse than ever, a disgrace, an outrage. Oh,...
July 25, 2010 12:00 AMIf there's not enough time or space to remember Ralph Houk as the fellow who managed the Yankees to three straight pennants (1961-63) and two World Series wins ('61 and '62), couldn't we at least recall him as Lt. Houk...
July 23, 2010 12:00 AMThis Somewhat Great Moment In Sportscasting is brought to you by Paul Evans, who works the visitors' TV booth in D.C. and Baltimore, supplying stats and info. Tuesday night in Baltimore he worked the Rays' booth. In...
July 23, 2010 12:00 AM
This was one of those Say vs. See television weekends. That's not good. Say shouldn't even be in the same ring as See. Friday on Channel 9's Yankee telecast, Rays' right fielder Gabe Kapler made a leaping catch...
July 19, 2010 12:00 AMSo you're a New York sports columnist. You've covered George Steinbrenner, the owner of the Yankees, in some capacity, for nearly 30 years. You didn't like him on a personal or professional basis. You tried, but he...
July 18, 2010 12:00 AMIn a stretch, this week, and even in the wake of ESPN’s production of “LeBron au Follies,” one reasonably could conclude — again — that ESPN has become a put-on, a mockery of itself. Item One: If yesterday, during ESPN...
July 16, 2010 2:14 AM
You want floral-patterned platitudes about George Steinbrenner? Then turn the page, now. But if you want my version of the truth -- and that's all I've got -- then here goes: He made it very tough. To see...
July 15, 2010 12:00 AM
After Ed Sullivan's, whose voice was more imitated, and over more years, than Bob Sheppard's? Just as nearly everyone could do a reasonably good Sullivan, everyone could do a pretty good Sheppard. Danny Cater played...
July 12, 2010 12:00 AM
As sports fans, New Yorkers aren't nearly as sophisticated as we're told we are, are we? When a big free agent chooses to play in New York, it's a good thing, right? Whatta guy! We love him! Rah, rah and rah....
July 11, 2010 12:00 AMSo, what'd you expect from ESPN? A classy, dignified pregame to last night's "Decision" by LeBron James? The preface was everything ESPN does to everything, and that ain't good. "We're all on the edge of our seats,...
July 09, 2010 12:00 AMIf this weren't true, it would be funny. The following is from an ESPN press release, yesterday afternoon: "One of the most anticipated decisions in the sports world -- where NBA superstar free agent LeBron James...
July 08, 2010 12:00 AMIt has become clear that no 21st-century baseball telecast can be considered complete unless it contains several episodes during which a play is inspected, dissected, disrobed, examined, super slow-motioned, autopsied,...
July 06, 2010 12:00 AM
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