Yahoo! Sports | The Post Game. Friday, May 27, 2011 4:11 pm Written by: Chris Carrino One of my earliest broadcasting memories is calling the World Series in 1980. It wasn’t for any network, just my tape recorder, while watching it on the TV in my parents’ bedroom. I was 10 years old. No one ever heard it but me.In June 2002, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, I called my first NBA Finals game on WOR radio in New York. I’m fairly certain a few more people heard that broadcast. Somewhere in between, I was diagnosed with fascio scapulo humeral dystrophy or FSHD for short, a form of muscular dystrophy. FSHD is a thief in the night, slowly robbing you of your ability to use your arms and legs and even to smile the way you want to. I was born with it, but didn’t know it until my college years. That’s when I started to lose some of the athleticism I had always enjoyed. My running was slowed to a fast walk, shooting a basketball felt like … Continue reading →

Chris Carrino appeared on the Boomer and Carton morning show on WFAN, Tuesday, May 3. Listen to the full interview: Boomer & Carton talk with Chris Carrino

An in depth interview with Chris conducted by Bob Salter, which aired on WFAN on Sunday morning, April 17th. Listen to the full interview: Bob Salter speaks with Chris Carrino

Updated: April 13, 2011 Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. — New Jersey Nets radio voice Chris Carrino has been living with a secret for almost two decades. The 40-year-old, who has spent the past decade describing the franchise’s run at NBA titles early in the decade to the misery of recent losing seasons, has done it with his body being gradually attacked by a form of muscular dystrophy. Carrino has facioscapulohumeral dystrophy, one of nine types of MD, and this one has neither a treatment nor a cure. “I have always been reluctant to talk about it because I never wanted to seem different,” Carrino said. “I never wanted to be treated differently. It took me a while to talk to the people, even friends. It’s something I felt that as long as I could get away with people not knowing, it would be fine.” Carrino is doing more than talking these days about his debilitating disease. He has launched the Chris Carrino Foundation for FSHD. Read the full article at ESPN.com.

By Dave D’Alessandro/Star-Ledger Columnist Published: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 The first time he was aware that something was wrong was when he was in his late teens, and being someone who doesn’t complain about anything — that should be on his business card, by the way — Chris Carrino decided to keep it to himself. It wasn’t any one incident, it was just a series of gradual, insidious signals of a disease’s awakening: One day the basketball would feel like a 5-pound weight; another day the easy burst from the batter’s box to first base would turn into a laborious jog in deep sand. When they finally told him it was muscular dystrophy that had suddenly taken control of his body, Carrino was 23 years old. Being Carrino — and again, this is why everyone regards him as special — his initial response was, “Well, at least it’s not something life-threatening.” But reality, cruel as it often is, intervenes. He’s lived with this horrid disease — facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, or FSHD, the most common form of MD — for nearly … Continue reading →

April 8, 2011 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.—Chris Carrino, the radio voice of Nets Basketball for the last decade, has revealed publicly for the first time that he suffers from Facioscapulohumeral Dystrophy (FSHD), a form of muscular dystrophy. In an effort to raise money for this underfunded disease, Carrino, 40, has launched The Chris Carrino Foundation for FSHD. Read full press release here.