EDITOR’S NOTE: The following article — a review by former Post-Journal sports editor Frank Hyde — appeared in this newspaper sometime after legendary broadcaster Howard Cosell published a book in 1974 ...
He collided with broadcasting icon Howard Cosell and the cooler dislodged Cosell’s toupee. My Derby beat ended when I was hired in August 1990 by the Columbus Dispatch, which already had a horse ...
Smith is the big dog at ESPN. But he wants bigger. He wants more. He wants to be Howard Cosell. John Ourand reports that Smith wants to be making even more money per year than ESPN’s newest mega ...
An almost 4-1 underdog on October 30th, 1974, Ali out-thought and out-fought the invincible Foreman. ‘Big’ George landed ...
If this were a movie scene, they’d have shouted “Wrap!” If Howard Cosell were calling it, it’d have been “Down goes Detroit!” ...
Weeks earlier, ABC had debuted a prime-time variety show called Saturday Night Live With Howard Cosell. So Lorne Michaels’ late-night creation had to go by, simply, Saturday Night — the same ...
That is how Howard Cosell closed the opening monologue to the last prime-time game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Dallas Cowboys. It has taken 42 years, but we finally have another prime-time ...
"That's what I missed, and I mentioned Muhammad Ali and Sean Connery and Howard Cosell. You know. I mean, because these were all the people I wanted to be like as a kid. I wanted to be, I wanted ...
Saturday Night' depicts the 90 minutes leading up to the very first episode of 'SNL' — but it takes some liberties with the truth. Here's what's fact and what's fiction.
Colin Cosell, grandson of Howard, debuts as Mets' PA announcer Colin Cosell, the grandson of famed sportscaster Howard Cosell, made a smooth debut Saturday night as a public address announcer for ...
When the ball left the bat, Keith Jackson began his call, but he could only get one word in, saying, "High," before his color commentator Howard Cosell went rogue and took the call for himself.
“Don’t fall down, Renée,” was all she could think. Knowing that Howard Cosell was calling the match for a national television audience didn’t help. The only thing that did was the fact ...