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Howard Cosell Radio personality

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: Mar 25, 1918
  • Died: Apr 23, 1995

Howard William Cosell was an American sports journalist who was widely known for his blustery, cocksure personality. Cosell said of himself, "Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. There's no question that I'm all of those things." In its obituary for Cosell, The New York Times described Cosell's impact on American sports coverage: "He entered sports broadcasting in the mid-1950s, when the predominant style was unabashed adulation, [and] offered a brassy counterpoint that was first ridiculed, then copied until it became the dominant note of sports broadcasting."

In 1993, TV Guide named Howard Cosell The All-Time Best Sportscaster in its issue Celebrating 40 years of television.

In 1996, Howard Cosell was ranked #47 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time.

Sports is the toy department of human life. sports

After all, is football a game or a religion? religion

Sports is human life in microcosm. sports

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