This weekend marked the 100th birthday of Howard Cosell, the sometimes polarizing, often-bombastic commentator who influenced sports broadcasting. His on-air partnership with Muhammad Ali brought both ...

It was an indelible TV moment, much like Walter Cronkite’s trembly announcement in 1963 that President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated in Dallas.

Howard Cosell’s outspoken, provocative, and oft-polarizing style redefined sportscasting, but Al Michaels remembers it also making him difficult to work with at the end of his career. Michaels ...

The most famous television sportscaster of the 1970s was Howard Cosell, a nasal-toned, staccato blast of magniloquent pomposity who became the face and voice of ABC’s biggest prime-time shows, like ...

Sunday marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Howard Cosell, star of stage and screen and inspiration, but not, contrary to the book jacket's proclamation, author of the best-selling book "Cosell ...

NEW YORK -- As a young boy, Colin Cosell would climb into Poppa's lap and listen to that famed voice, the nasal, New York tone booming to sports fans all over the country. The sound of Howard Cosell ...

NEW YORK (AP) As a young boy, Colin Cosell would climb into Poppa's lap and listen to that famed voice, the nasal, New York tone booming to sports fans all over the country. The sound of Howard Cosell ...

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