“How are you, Howard?” he said. Cosell, in a bright yellow sports jacket, started out by asking the former Beatle what he thought of football. After giving his “tea party” reply, Lennon ...

The first time I met Howard ­Cosell, I wound up replacing him ... When Cosell was on the road, he usually took only one jacket: the Tweety Bird–yellow blazer that ABC Sports inexplicably ...

How could it be that “a human spectacle as unique as Howard Cosell” has already been widely forgotten? said Richard Sandomir in The New York Times. With his “adenoidal Brooklyn voice ...