On the anniversary of John Lennon's death on Dec. 8, 1980, a look back at how the musical icon and one-of-a-kind broadcaster crossed paths.

Usher shows sweet moves as Sugar Ray Leonard in 'Hands of Stone' DON KING (Reg E. Cathey) The normally bald Cathey wore a custom-made Don King wild wig to resemble the eccentric fight promoter ...

On the telephone from New Yawk, Howard Cosell was his usual prime-time self. He didn`t want to be bothered, but the show must go on. ”So, Verdi,” he said. ”What are you doing with… ...

Howard Cosell drank himself out of his announcing job at ABC, according a new biography of the famed TV sports personality. During a 1984 American League Championship game, Cosell and his partner, … ...

HOWARD COSELL: The Man, the Myth, and the Transformation of American Sports, by Mark Ribowsky. W.W. Norton & Company, 477 pages, $29.95. How is it possible that 16 years have passed without a ...

Howard Cosell, who delighted and infuriated listeners during a 30-year career as the nation’s best-known and most outspoken sports broadcaster, died Sunday at the Hospital for Joint Diseases in ...

There are probably as many Howard Cosell stories floating around as there are number of days the man trod the earth, which was in excess of 28,000 when he died Sunday. Here are a few of them, none ...

The Issue: How sports commentator Howard Cosell should be portrayed in history and remembered. *** John Podhoretz’s column on Howard Cosell fails to mention a very important fact — the anguish ...

At the end of his legendary tenure as the mouthpiece for ABC’s Monday Night Football, Howard Cosell identified a pestilent trend in the world of sports broadcasting. Cosell’s complaint ...

THE LAST 10 years or so Howard Cosell wasn’t telling it at all. He pulled the blinds and shut out the games and the players. His headache of a voice disappeared and there was no great need to… ...