Phil Mushnick

6 days ago | nypost.com | Phil Mushnick

Beware of those who publicly declare that their stuff doesn’t stink. Recently, CBS newsman and “60 Minutes” regular Scott Pelley made news and noise when he seized the close of the venerable program to deliver an appeal, threat or whatever, depending on how one heard it, to CBS News parent Paramount, as it was reportedly preparing to settle a lawsuit brought last year by President Trump over the show’s very cozy interview with VP Kamala Harris during last year’s presidential campaign.

1 week ago | nypost.com | Phil Mushnick

There used to be a ballpark … I suppose he lasted years longer than the game plan allowed, a split-T formation vs. an empty backfield world, but there will be no Richard Neer starting tomorrow morning at WFAN.

1 week ago | nypost.com | Phil Mushnick

As all sports-attached TV networks are conspicuously working off the same plan to remove the sport from our sports, we wonder: Who came up with the plan? Where was the research and surveys that told network execs that the sports-minded public prefers the worst images from games, the worst acts and actors in their sports, and the biggest jerks in the live audience to represent both the sports and what we most enjoy upon tuning in?

1 week ago | share.google | Phil Mushnick

As all sports-attached TV networks are conspicuously working off the same plan to remove the sport from our sports, we wonder: Who came up with the plan? Where was the research and surveys that told network execs that the sports-minded public prefers the worst images from games, the worst acts and actors in their sports, and the biggest jerks in the live audience to represent both the sports and what we most enjoy upon tuning in?

2 weeks ago | nypost.com | Phil Mushnick

Having missed two columns to my annual formaldehyde blood spins, let’s not waste time writing the pithy. Catch-up formation on “Hut.” (Hmm, wonder where “hut” came from.) Hut! It’s all a con continued: When MLB introduced interleague play, thus further homogenizing the two leagues, “Bottom Line” Bud Selig proudly boasted that “it’s a gift to fans.” And compliant media, having already rolled over, played dead.