NEW YORK -- As a young boy, Colin Cosell would climb into Poppa's lap and listen to that famed voice, the nasal, New York tone booming to sports fans all over the country. The sound of Howard Cosell ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The most famous television sportscaster of the 1970s was Howard Cosell, a nasal-toned, staccato blast of magniloquent pomposity ...

A chance encounter between ABC football announcer Frank Gifford and John Lennon led to one of the most interesting moments in sports television history 50 years ago this Monday, when the former Beatle ...

NEW YORK -- The Mets have hired two new public address announcers for Citi Field, including the first woman to hold the job and a grandson of late ABC broadcaster Howard Cosell. Marysol Castro will ...

They were a 1960s power couple, two hypertalkative showmen: Muhammad Ali, the African-American boxer born with a slave name, and Howard Cosell, the Jewish Brooklyn lawyer who found his calling in ...

From its inception, ABC's "Monday Night Football" was a risky experiment that defied American sports tradition. From Howard Cosell's pontification to Don Meredith's down-home songs to Dennis Miller's ...

'Howard Cosell: The Man, the Myth, and the Transformation of American Sports' by Mark Ribowsky; W.W. Norton (512 pages, $29.95) When ABC Sports guru Roone Arledge was suggesting Howard Cosell for ...

The most famous television sportscaster of the 1970s was Howard Cosell, a nasal-toned, staccato blast of magniloquent pomposity who became the face and voice of ABC’s biggest prime-time shows, like ...