Phil Mushnick
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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.”
Sticky situations unfortunately feel like a dime a dozen for college athletes
File this one under: “So What? Who cares? Dime a Dozen. Next!”
Athletes can't stop getting in their own immodestly foolish ways
You see it all game, every game. It’s like the thanks-for-nothing, “They move the chains,” replacing the useful “first down” and the yardage gained. It’s tired, repetitive and poorly designed...
Former Cub would have been vilified for heroic flag-saving act in today's radicalized world
Cubs outfielder Rick Monday, against the Dodgers in L.A., rescued an American flag that was about to be set afire in center field by two “protestors.”
MLB's cash-worshipping ways have led right to this overpriced Juan Soto era
This Hot Stove League season has left me cold. Cold, as in it’s almost impossible to care.
Stephen A. Smith is a nationally televised joke with relentless cluelessness on ESPN
The most transparently absurd sports presence on TV remains the lead face and voice of the transparently absurd sports network.
College football's 'Rivalry Week' delivered on its violent promise
For my two cents and fully repaid college loan, last week beat the previous week for continued social destruction of our sports
Tom Brady is wasting Fox's $375 million — and it likely won't get better
Similarly, on Thursday, in exchange for a staggering $375 million in big-name guess money, Fox again force-fed Tom Brady to the nation, placing him on the Giants-Cowboys Thanksgiving Day telecast.
Baker Mayfield made a fool of himself by mocking Tommy DeVito gesture
After rising, Baker Mayfield immediately, as if rehearsed, began to perform a classless, bad-winner mockery of something-string Giants QB Tommy DeVito and his media-enriched stereotype by making double paisano finger...
NFL, NBA greed has ruined our sacred holidays
Thanksgiving, Christmas, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I’ll be home for Christmas. Chestnuts roasting by an open fire. We shall overcome.
The absurdity of college sports extends well beyond the athletes
Bob Nehwart left us one college football season too soon. In one of his famous one-way phone conversations, he’d have had great, satirical fun with what this season has become.
TV betting 'experts' leaving fans relying on blind bad faith
You can’t handicap the bounce of footballs in one game, let alone 14.
Football's never-ending onslaught has killed any remaining thrills
It just seems that by Sunday night, let alone Monday night, no matter how appealing the flexed-for-TV-dough matchups, the thrill is gone.