Phil Mushnick
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The artificial 'woo'-ification of sports has pervaded — and ruined — the rest of TV
Diminished standards have become standardized. Even the natural act of laughter has been compromised to a con.
Dwyane Wade's Heat 'cookies' story belongs in latest absurdities
Flipping through my weekly stack of notes, they’re yet again loaded with absurdities and unintended but nonetheless institutionalized farce.
The biggest calamity in sports is flourishing in obscurity
What hath greed wrought!? Well, to those who once recognized and cherished the sport in our sports, what hasn’t it wrought? Or bought?
Hockey's new 4 Nations event so good not even TV can ruin it
As things that go bump in the night, we have the just-concluded and highly attractive 4 Nations in-NHL-season ice hockey tournament.
One stat reveals the true depths of MLB's analytics mess
Fed any good stats, lately? Not likely, but we have some disturbing ones.
Love at first write: An ode to 44 years of marriage through 'couldn't make it up' sports stories
But behind every successful man stands a strong woman, even if I preferred that she covered my front, where it’s more dangerous.
Roger Goodell let Kendrick Lamar exploit Super Bowl halftime show
Roger Goodell allowed Kendrick Lamar to exploit his spotlight not to entertain the Super Bowl audience but to renew one of those rapper beefs with Drake.
This Super Bowl broadcast was doomed from the start
To a large degree, if you’ve seen one Super Bowl during the Roger Goodell Football-As-Pop-Prop Era, you’ve seen ’em all. And how much can you do every year with onion...
Ex-NFL star getting college coaching job despite alarming views is mindboggling
Ladies and gentleman, introducing the new head football coach of Delaware State, former Eagles star and renown anti-Semite DeSean Jackson!
Craig Carton proves he's never changed at all
I admit it. I was a sap. And the readers who tried to tell me so were right.
NFL needed just 13 disorderly seconds to show exactly what it's about
For all the on- and off-field rot and the reliably compliant silence of media, it becomes a legit question whether Roger Goodell gives a rat’s rotator cuff about the condition...
Bob Uecker had special gift that made him national treasure you couldn't stop watching
Do yourself a favor: Spend a few minutes on the Internet to watch Bob Uecker’s 2003 Hall of Fame induction speech.
Knicks' old-school play a refreshing change from NBA's unwatchable norm
They mostly took advantage of the game’s circumstances rather than capitulating to the game’s redundant and often self-defeating habits.
Sports broadcasts would be better if one annoyance was eliminated
As a matter of educated fact, the last time either show made any worth-hearing noise was when CBS’ version was off the air. After a 1980 show, Brent Musburger and...
NFL keeps going down 'stream' with another pay-per-playoff game
Well, Roger “G-Diddy” Goodell and his posse of plunderers are going to do it again.
NFL, college football seasons coming to a vexing finish
With the closing of the 2024 football season, there is much to consider and consume in both TV-enriched professional leagues — the NFL and NCAA.
Second dose of classless Rex Ryan won't cure Jets
It stands to reason that the New York Jets, bereft of a good idea in Woody Johnson, would even consider a Rex Ryan sequel.
Duke lacrosse players get silence instead of deserved media apologies after Crystal Mangum confession
Crystal Mangum came clean two weeks ago from the prison in which she’s confined for 14-18 years for second-degree murder of a boyfriend.
Rickey Henderson was far from MLB's greatest baserunner
A week after Rickey Henderson’s death, enough of the notion-as-fact nonsense. He was not the “greatest baserunner in history.”
