In 1974, Muhammad Ali appeared on ABC’s “Wide World of Sports” with Joe Frazier to talk with Howard Cosell about their upcoming heavyweight title rematch. Ali’s frequent taunting prompted Frazier to ...

One man was an African American who grew up in Louisville, KY. The other was a Jew raised in Brooklyn, NY. The pair, Muhammad Ali then Cassius Clay and Howard Cosell met in 1962 and from then on, they ...

In the most recent biography of the controversial broadcaster, Howard Cosell, Mark Ribowsky presents the story of the Brooklyn-born lawyer turned sports announcer. Cosell, who covered nearly every ...

'HUMBLE HOWARD' COSELLHow is it possible that 16 years have passed without a definitive biography of Howard Cosell? Mark Ribowsky has made it worth the wait. "Howard Cosell: The Man, the Myth, and the ...

HOWARD COSELL: The Man, the Myth, and the Transformation of American Sports, by Mark Ribowsky. W.W. Norton & Company, 477 pages, $29.95. How is it possible that 16 years have passed without a ...

This weekend marked the 100th birthday of Howard Cosell, the sometimes polarizing, often-bombastic commentator who influenced sports broadcasting. His on-air partnership with Muhammad Ali brought both ...

In 1982, Howard Cosell turned his back on boxing. Today, the sport of boxing will welcome Cosell back as it opens the doors to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota to the biggest ...

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 ...

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 ...

In his review of Mark Ribowsky’s new book about Howard Cosell in this week’s issue, David Remnick writes about Cosell’s early years: Like so many Jewish kids of his time and place, Howard knew what ...

The 5-year-old boy would put on his famous grandfather’s headphones and sit on his lap and ultimately watch the man he called “Poppa” record his national radio spot for ABC, “Speaking of Sports,” ...

Cosell was angry when ABC executive Roone Arledge (left) passed him over during the network's coverage of the massacre at 1972 Munich Olympic Games. Sportscaster Howard Cosell and Muhammad Ali were ...