I did a favor for a friend which required me to miss the 3rd and 4th quarter of the game on tv, but I did get to hear most of the two quarters on the radio. Mark Champion and Rick Mahorn were doing the game on WDFN. Let me just tell you I love listening to Rick Mahorn doing color commentary. The dude is out cold. He says the first thing that comes to his mind, he just don’t care what anyone thinks with usually translates into color commentary gold. Here are three such examples from the Wizards game I’ll paraphrase for you:

• Mark Champion comments on someone’s son who is going to play basketball for Ball State which Rick replies something to the effect of he must be desperate because Ball State sucks.
• Rodney Stuckey hurts his wrist and ‘Horn says he hopes it’s not one of those microfiber injuries
• Mark Champion points out that Wizard’s rookie Dominic McGuire was named Second Team All W.A.C. in college just before McGuire misses a free throw, to which Mahorn blurts “That free throw was WAC”



You get quotes like that from Rick nearly every game he calls. Gotta love ‘Horn.