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Mark Ribowsky’s entertaining Howard Cosell: The Man, the Myth, and the Transformation of American Sports. By the end of its 512 pages of quotes and anecdotes, I felt almost as exhilarated and ...

If this was true, they needed to notify the three men in the broadcast booth — Frank Gifford, Fran Tarkenton and Howard Cosell. And they needed to do it soon. Moments later, Goodrich heard ...

Ali was a brash, young black boxing champ from Louisville, Kentucky, and Cosell was a Jewish sports reporter from Brooklyn -- but the two formed an unlikely friendship. For over 30 years ...

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 your life?

Howard Cosell passed away 20 years ago this month. In this three-part series, we will be looking back on his contributions to sports media. Two funerals, nine years apart, illustrated Howard ...

Arledge quotes Cosell as shouting ... The most famous television sportscaster of the 1970s was Howard Cosell, a nasal-toned, staccato blast of magniloquent pomposity who became the face ...