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Joe Buck hilariously shades Phil Mushnick over Rickey Henderson column

"Tell him that the phrase is 'taken for GRANTED' not 'granite.' Thanks!"

Phil Mushnick uses the late Rickey Henderson as his latest rage bait target

He does this mainly because he’s been with the paper since 1982. And mainly because he can.

Vince Russo, Phil Mushnick spar on ‘Piers Morgan Uncensored’

"You made stuff up, bro, 30 years ago." "Keep shouting. 'Cause you're a fraud."

Michael Kay, Phil Mushnick spar over misattributed quote about sex with Craig Carton

"I guess one of his sycophants who report to him got it wrong."

Mike Francesa & Phil Mushnick renew rivalry over bad golf picks

"Ask him to add up how much the horses I own have won the past two years."

The five hottest takes from almost three years of This Week In Hot Takes, and the final hot take standings

After almost three years, This Week In Hot Takes is coming to an end. Here's a look at our picks for the five hottest takes we've covered, plus the final standings and thoughts on the top five finishers there.

This Week In Hot Takes: Phil Mushnick starts a column on a mascot change with “So I said to Joseph Goebbels”…

"So I said to Joseph Goebbels, “Burn any good books, lately?”" is a hell of a way to start a column about Long Beach State changing its mascot.

This Week In Hot Takes: Colin Cowherd says Browns fans are defined by “empty seats and bags on their heads”

"There are images of Cleveland Browns fans too, empty seats, bags on their head, and a bunch of guys from Lima, Ohio wearing masks and barking in the end zone, about nine Budweisers in."

This Week In Hot Takes: Charles Barkley says “A woman can’t beat me in a sport. Any sport!”

Barkley's claim that no woman could beat him at any sport topped the March 8-14 hot takes.

This Week In Hot Takes: Phil Mushnick wonders why Snoop Dogg can say the n-word and white people can’t

"When Snoop Dogg, at 47 a pornographer with a long arrest record, does such he’s indulged?"

This Week In Hot Takes: Michael Kay blames Phil Jackson, who wasn’t with the Knicks in 2013, for missing on Giannis Antetokounmpo

Giannis Antetokounmpo was drafted in 2013, and Phil Jackson was hired in 2014. The only way to blame Jackson is if you think he has a time machine.

This Week In Hot Takes: Doug Gottlieb has takes on the NFL not being racist, Mike Freeman not covering Urban Meyer, Baker Mayfield...

Gottlieb brought the fire on multiple fronts this week.

This Week In Hot Takes: Bill James says replacing every MLB player “would make no difference whatsoever” three years later

"If the players all retired tomorrow, we would replace them, the game would go on; in three years it would make no difference whatsoever. The players are NOT the game, any more than the beer vendors are."

This Week In Hot Takes: Phil Mushnick says Michigan-MSU “resembled a prison-yard riot,” Devin Bush was “like a crazed, escaped beast”

"Michigan linebacker Devin Bush ripped free of his teammates’ restraints and, like a crazed, escaped beast, ran to the on-field Michigan State logo to tear and scrape at it with his cleats."

This Week In Hot Takes: Phil Mushnick blames celebrations, ads, and sports TV for kids’ and parents’ poor behavior towards refs

No, Phil, touchdown celebrations don't really seem linked to parents threatening refs.

This Week In Hot Takes: David Booth on Nike Kaepernick campaign: “does this mean you can fly a plane into a building?”

“Believe in something even if it means sacrificing everything” does this mean you can fly a plane into a building? How can so many people @Nike be this ignorant as to the logical fallacy this entails. This is absolute absurd. I really don’t understand. Why would u support this?"

This Week In Hot Takes: Andy North wants us to think of the children when criticizing Phil Mickelson

"There's millions of kids that look up to Phil Mickelson, and what he did today has got to do damage to a lot of these kids who really looked up to him."

This Week In Hot Takes: Phil Mushnick hates three-pointers, bat-flipping and Lil Jon

Mushnick brought back some of the usual standards, but added a rant against three-pointers.

This Week In Hot Takes: Skip Bayless says LeBron plays “little to no defense,” which puts him behind Kobe, Jordan and Durant

"LeBron James, after 15 years in this league, plays little to no defense even in a playoff game, and I have to tell you: it really, deeply offends me to watch it."

This Week In Hot Takes: Christine Flowers says Sixers are “dead to me” after endorsing Meek Mill, making fans “fools and chumps”

"Mill got [special treatement] from the Sixers, a basketball franchise that should have been worried about winning a championship but instead sent a message to all the law-abiding Philadelphians who worked hard to pay for their playoff tickets that they were fools and chumps."

This Week In Hot Takes: Phil Mushnick says “It’s a pity HBO would team with the WWE for anything” over Andre the Giant...

Mushnick's surprisingly-strong opinion on the existence of an Andre the Giant documentary topped the hot takes from March 30-April 5.

This Week In Hot Takes: John Steigerwald says women are “whining using tools invented by men”

Steigerwald's five-alarm take about gender roles topped this week.

This Week In Hot Takes: Skip Bayless calls LeBron James “by far the biggest self-promoter in the history of sports”

Bayless calling anyone else a self-promoter? Now that's a hot take.

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