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.
In addition to throwing all these anniversary shows for itself — “Tonight we celebrate the 10,000th time we’ve credited Chris Mortensen with a scoop that everyone else had!” — ESPN should observe a day of atonement,...
March 12, 2010 2:09 AM
TV now fires so many absurdi ties at us, we shouldn't watch without a catcher's mitt, chest protector and mask. Friday, I just wanted to watch some golf, that's all. I didn't tune in the Honda Classic, a Golf...
March 08, 2010 12:00 AMIt must be the latest ritual in TV news rooms: Walk in, hang up your coat and hat in one closet, hang your dignity and credibility in the other. On the morning after the Olympics more than two consecutive weeks of NBC...
March 07, 2010 2:04 AM
I don't know about you, or about how Bud Selig was raised, but when I was a kid and I didn't tell the truth the first time, the fellow in charge of our house didn't allow a second chance, let alone a third. Know what I...
March 07, 2010 12:00 AMAs long as team owners charge us to watch ballgames, we’re entitled to know the ingredients of what they’re feeding us, no? And if we’re supposed to believe that the crooked drug era is over — only juice-rotten home...
March 05, 2010 1:30 AM
Yesterday was the rarest of days, when money finished out of the money, when Money, the odds-on favorite, was beaten by Happy Accident. And sports felt very, very good. Yesterday, an event of enormous national appeal...
March 01, 2010 12:00 AMSince 1988, when the International Olympic Committee first allowed NBC to do whatever it pleases to the Olympics (hey, the money was right), the Games have been predicated on one formula: American audiences are too...
February 28, 2010 12:59 AM
Maybe team-owners ignore Bud Selig, but we don't. Three Selig quotes of note: When interleague play began, Commissioner Selig called it "a gift to the fans." After the 2008 season, with the U.S. economy in a...
February 28, 2010 12:00 AMOlympic hockey can turn history-formed habits strange. Given that Canada is the favorite but Team USA has a reasonable shot, my rooting interests this week drifted to the teams that played against Canada. Thus,...
February 26, 2010 3:22 AMWhat’s worse for a big-time network newsman: Being stuck in the wrong place at the wrong time by accident or being stuck in such a place on orders from your network? Seven years ago, CNN anchor Aaron Brown took a...
February 21, 2010 1:23 AM
One Olympic thing NBC gets completely right -- and then some -- every four years is assigning Mike "Doc" Emrick to call ice hockey. He remains remarkable, as good as the best play-by-play man, TV or radio, in any sport...
February 21, 2010 12:00 AMRemember when you were a kid and you were at a friend's and his parents started to scream at him and you didn't know what to do? Should you slip out of the room, leave the premises or just sit there with the...
February 20, 2010 12:00 AMWatching NBC’s “coverage” of the Olympics is like a Jackie Mason routine. (Insert Yiddish accent here) Everything is “coming up,” or “after this,” “up next” and “just ahead.” But when does “coming up” and “after this”...
February 19, 2010 3:40 AM
The con is on. If today's the day Tiger Woods has cho sen to face the music, we should all be granted such a face-the-music day. We should all be allowed to choose the date, the deejay, the playlist and who's allowed...
February 19, 2010 12:00 AM
There are times -- the last three days, starting with the death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili -- when you want to take NBC by its Olympic rings and shake the living daylights out of it. NBC is so...
February 15, 2010 12:00 AM
Sometimes new-age sensitivities and modern human relations seem short on those very two things — sensitivity and humanity. Take, for example, that show that recently was all over ABC, “Sanfords and Sons.” Jenny...
February 14, 2010 12:04 AM
Five years ago, CBS golf analyst David Feherty authored a book titled, "Somewhere In Ireland A Village Is Missing An Idiot." Well, those villagers can call off the search; Feherty's been found, but he's not moving...
February 14, 2010 12:00 AMAa Howard Cosell solemnly said upon the passing of George Halas, age 89, "It was inevitable." Good call; the inevitable is always bound to happen. The inevitable occurred this week, too, and sooner rather than...
February 12, 2010 12:00 AMSo, did CBS do a good job covering the game, or did the Colts' no-huddle force CBS to stay on the field instead of looking for this week's Jerry Jones and the concerned mothers of shaken-up linebackers? Go with the...
February 08, 2010 12:00 AMThe most surprising thing about the angry fallout from MTV’s “Jersey Shore” is the anger and surprise. It’s MTV. What do folks think MTV is, a music video network? Hasn’t been in 15 years. Do people think it’s a TV...
February 07, 2010 1:15 AM
You want a Super Bowl preview column? Really? Come on. Would it matter to you if I wrote that CBS is using 26 cameras or 32 cameras? A dozen tape machines or 18? Or that the game will be seen and heard in 56...
February 07, 2010 12:00 AMWhile it's neither in our DNA nor our souls to hurt for them, it has been a rough stretch for our brothers in Philadelphia. In April, they lost Harry Kalas, beloved voice of the Phillies. The next day, Les Keiter,...
February 05, 2010 12:00 AMHow did the pursuit of equality become joined with an enemy of equality, the double standard, the kind regularly seen and fed by and on TV? Try this one on: When I see Mel Gibson on TV my blood runs angry. Although we...
January 31, 2010 1:13 AM
Thursday night on "Sports Center" it was time for the "Coors Hard, Cold Facts" segment. The night's topic: What the Colts have to do to beat the Saints in the Super Bowl. And there to tell us was ex-NFL offensive...
January 31, 2010 12:00 AMCertain history, as Winston Churchill never said, is like toilet paper stuck to the bottom of your shoe; no matter how hard you try to shake free, it’ll follow you. The panelists on MLB Network’s “Hot Stove,” this week...
January 29, 2010 2:05 AM
How nice is Phil Simms? Very nice, sometimes too nice. Yesterday on CBS, he politely, quietly watched with us as Colts head coach Jim Caldwell tried to remove the late season initiative from his team. For the second...
January 25, 2010 3:43 AMThe best comedy on cable? No contest. The daily cable news shows. Turn on one — any one of them — sit back, wait 30 to 60 seconds and enjoy! Last week, CNBC reported that government funding of “affordable housing” is...
January 24, 2010 3:34 AM
Even by Mike Francesa's noxious standard, he has been on an extraordinary roll. Only commercials have lately provided a break from his sagacious delivery of inside misinformation, bogus claims, total recall of never...
January 24, 2010 12:00 AM"W hich John Halligan?! Our John Halligan?!" Odd, how out-of-the-blue bad news can turn one instantly stupid. Why would anyone be calling with word that some other John Halligan died? Odd, too, is how such news...
January 22, 2010 12:00 AMFour more reasons — back to front from yesterday’s Jets’ 17-14 upset of the Chargers — why Phil Simms is football’s best analyst: 1) All the silly stats CBS yesterday threw at us during Jets-Chargers, and he ignored...
January 18, 2010 2:34 AM
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