By Drew Grant 5/16/12 8:00am

Racism

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To Slur, With Love: ‘Ironic Racism’ is More Than Just Taki

Two weeks ago, Phil Mushnick, a respected veteran sports writer for The New York Post, published a column about the Brooklyn Nets’ new brand identity, as designed with the help of Jay-Z. The team—previously known as the New Jersey Nets—had switched their colors to black and white. “Why not have him apply the full Jay-Z treatment?” Mr. Mushnick suggested, referring to the team’s part-owner. “Why the Brooklyn Nets when they can be the New York N——s. The cheerleaders could be the Brooklyn B—hes or Hoes …” Read More

By Drew Grant 5/04/12 4:28pm

Racism

Phil Mushnick, big racist (Getty Images)

Phil Mushnick Uses N-Word in New York Post Sports Column, Blames Jay-Z

Phil Mushnick is a man that once garnered the nickname “Mr. Grumpy” from his boss at Fox Sports. That was in 1998, when it was known even then that Mr. Mushnick was a relic. “He’s a throwback,” David Hill, president of Fox Sports told The New York Observer at the time. “He sees himself as a knight in shining armor protecting sports fans from the slings and arrows hurled at them by cretinous, unfeeling network sports chiefs.”

But cretinous is a term that applies more to Mr. Mushnick more than sports chiefs, especially after today’s rant about Brooklyn Nets, during which he refers to the players as N——, which is certainly a novel way to say the N-word without saying the N-word, but otherwise is a pretty indefensible position all around. Even better is that Mr. Mushnick then tried to defend his statements by blaming the Nets’ part-owner, Jay-Z. Read More

By Gabriel Snyder 12:00am

Cranky Sportswriter Turns Down Nike-Funded Golf Game

As the recipient of the 2000 National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association New York Sportswriter of the Year Award, perennially cranky New York Post columnist Phil Mushnick is entitled to three days of all-expenses-paid fun in the sun in late April in Salisbury, N.C., where the traditionally fit and svelte NSSA membership will hold their annual Read More