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	Howard Cosell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cosell was admitted to the New York state bar in 1941, but when the U.S. entered World War II, Cosell entered the United States Army Transportation Corps, where he was promoted to the rank of sergent.
		Cosell earned his greatest enmity from the public when he backed Ali after the boxer's championship title was stripped from him for refusing military service during the Vietnam War.
		Cosell found vindication several years later when he was the one able to inform Ali that the United States Supreme Court had unanimously ruled in favor of Ali.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Howard_Cosell (1284 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Howard Cosell Dies at 77
		Howard Cosell, who was one of the first network television sports announcers to, in his own words, "tell it like it is," died yesterday morning at New York University's Hospital for Joint Diseases in New York City.
		Cosell, a pioneering broadcast sports journalist, frequently was the target of critics in the print media, mostly for promoting sports he later attacked and dropping the names of famous people he considered friends.
		Cosell, the grandson of a rabbi, was born Howard William Cohen in Winston-Salem, N.C., on March 25, 1918, the son of Isadore and Nellie Cohen.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/longterm/memories/1995/95pass12.htm (1435 words)

	CMG welcomes new client Howard Cosell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Howard Cosell “told it like it was” to sports audiences for nearly 40 years.
		Cosell also hosted “ABC Sportsbeat” which won three Emmys and was the only regularly scheduled program on a network that was focused solely on sports coverage.
		Always controversial, Cosell prided the fact that he was as he put it, “the most hated man in the country.” Many of his fans, however, have disagreed.
	newsletter.cmgww.com /2003/enl/june/060303f.html (172 words)

	CNNSI.com - Pro Football - FBI Files: Howard Cosell - Wednesday January 16, 2002 05:36 PM
		Cosell was "The Mouth,'' a labor lawyer and driven sports journalist who made his name delivering grandiose, multisyllabic pronouncements about sport and society.
		Cosell gained acclaim with his radio gig Speaking of Sports, but his career soared when he debuted in the Monday Night Football booth -- with a bad toupee and a cigar in hand -- and ringside for Muhammad Ali's ride to the heavyweight title.
		Cosell testified at a 1977 trial in which an unemployed steelworker was found guilty of mailing threatening communication.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /football/news/2002/01/10/cosell_fbi_file (743 words)

	Biography of Howard Cosell
		Born Howard Cohen in 1918, Howard Cosell carved a niche in sports journalism that few other have been able to equal.
		Howard changed it to Cosell to honor his father.
		Cosell was very attuned to his image and knew well what the public was saying about him.
	nh.essortment.com /biographyhoward_rggs.htm (681 words)

	The New York Times: This Day In Sports
		Cosell offered a brassy counterpoint that was first ridiculed, then copied until it became the dominant note of sports broadcasting.
		Howard William Cohen was born on March 25, 1918, in Winston-Salem, N.C., to Isadore and Nellie Cohen.
		Cosell had so little vanity that he used to hang his toupee on a hatrack when he was off camera.
	www.nytimes.com /packages/html/sports/year_in_sports/04.25.html (651 words)

	HBO tells it like he was (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cosell loved sports and he loved conflict, and once he got on a microphone he made sportscasting relevant, made it crackle with an electricity it hadn't had before.
		Cosell embraced the young heavyweight champion Cassius Clay, took an interest in his Black Muslim activities, called him Muhammad Ali when most journalists were still calling him Clay, and defended Ali's right to the due process he was denied after refusing to fight in the Vietnam War.
		Tonight you'll see Cosell supplying the voice to the Sunday highlights that were a halftime staple of "Monday Night Football." He did them in a single take, with only a few notes from his producers; the script came off the top of his head, in flawless, high-octane sentences.
	www.icriticus.com /kcs/13432598.html (1154 words)

	ASA Hall of Fame-Howard Cosell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cosell is probably best known for his 13 years of expert commentary on ABC's Emmy Award winning "Monday Night Football".
		Cosell remained active in radio with his daily sportscast, "Speaking of Sports", and his weekly interview program, "Speaking of Everything".
		Cosell's involvement in sports started in his native Brooklyn where he was the sports editor of his high school paper.
	www.americansportscasters.com /cosell.html (257 words)

	CNNSI.com - SI Online - SI Flashback: 40th Anniversary Issue - Thursday January 10, 2002 01:01 PM
		There had never been anyone quite like Howard Cosell in the American ball yard when he made his entrance into the world of sports, stoop-shouldered under the weight of a 40-pound tape recorder that he carried on his back like some slightly demented word Sherpa from Brooklyn.
		Howard William Cohen had been eight years into a law practice in 1954 when he chucked his $30,000 salary for a $250-a-week radio job and began to schlepp a tape recorder from locker room to locker room.
		In 1986, while under cross-examination in the USFL's $1.5 billion lawsuit against the NFL, Cosell was asked by one NFL lawyer to confirm his oft-quoted assertion that he was one of the three great men of American TV, along with Walter Cronkite and Johnny Carson.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /features/cover/flashbacks/cosell/howard_cosell (651 words)

	The Legacy and Legend of Howard Cosell - James Campion's eulogy to an American broadcasting icon.
		Cosell’s interviews with the always poetic and vociferous Ali were masterpieces in entertainment.
		Cosell’s best-known pulpit was the crowded booth on of the most popular experiments in network history.
		Howard Cosell never received a big sendoff like Johnny Carson of Cronkite, but one would have to wonder if he would’ve either expected or embraced it.
	www.jamescampion.com /ncncosell.html (1134 words)

	Howard Cosell Introduction, 1972 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cosell's pontificating commentaries and melodramatic inquisitions--his trademarks--have made him a topic of hot debate among athletes as well, whose opinions of his worth run the gamut from
		Submitting to an interview with Cosell has been likened to opting for brain surgery without anesthesia, yet even his detractors are forced to admit that he has been the one sportscaster able to gain the confidence of sports' most iconoclastic performers.
		I'd like to see Landry try it." The observation was typical of Cosell's penchant for direct confrontation with the sports establishment, and whether he's regarded as an irritant or an inspiration, such remarks have caused much of the American public to regard him as the last polysyllabic word on athletic endeavor.
	web3.sportsline.com /b/member/playboy/7205.html (1474 words)

	Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Saturday Night Live With Howard Cosell was a program that ran on ABC until 1976, hosted by Howard Cosell.
		Once Cosell's show was cancelled, it renamed itself Saturday Night Live.
		Instead, Cosell played host to the Bay City Rollers, who he dubbed "the next" British phenomeon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saturday_Night_Live_With_Howard_Cosell (164 words)

	Cosell, Howard (1918-1995) History Summary
		Cosell critiqued everything in sight that would provide him with fan appeal and approval, yet his career was most clearly tied to the emergence of Muhammad Ali.
		For many viewers, Cosell's voice provided the soundtrack as The Greatest "floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee." The sportscaster served as one of Ali's chief defenders when he was stripped of his title after refusing to join the military due to religious beliefs.
		Arledge discussed Cosell in 1995: "He became a giant by the simple act of telling the truth in an industry that was not used to hearing it and considered it revolutionary." This knack grew directly from what others called an "over-blown ego." When Cosell misspoke about the game, his colleagues would call him to task.
	www.bookrags.com /history/popculture/cosell-howard-1918-1995-sjpc-01 (667 words)

	Cosell, Howard on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Howard Cosell Was The Most Revered And Reviled Sportscaster Of His
		Howard Cosell told it like it was in his 40 years of sports broadcasting.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
		HBO Sports to Host Premiere Of 'Howard Cosell: Telling It Like It Is' with UGA's Grady College Of Journalism.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/CosellH1.asp (391 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Telling It Like It Was About Howard Cosell
		Howard Cosell would have approved, the tributes to him that were immense, the obituaries reading like eulogies.
		Cosell was identified as the foremost sports television journalist of his time.
		Howard always gave big attention to the clock ("time is of the essence now"), knowing he was safe in that matter.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/longterm/memories/1995/95pass11.htm (694 words)

	Howard Cosell
		Howard Cosell was arguably the most colorful and controversial national sports reporter and personality in American media.
		Cosell came into prominence as a blow-by-blow radio-TV reporter of early (Cassius Clay) Muhammad Ali fights.
		Teamed with two football legends, Don Meredith and Frank Gifford, Cosell’s colorful and provocative commentaries were both praised and deplored by viewers and critics alike—but were nonetheless effective in establishing the innovative Monday TV football telecasts as an American tradition.
	www.jewishsports.net /BioPages/HowardCosell.htm (250 words)

	Howard Cosell Body, 1972 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		COSELL: Not at all, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.
		COSELL: There are very definite reasons that motivate members of what I call the old-world sporting press to attack me. Most of them are not men of education, and it hasn't been an easy thing for these people to see life pass them by in philosophical terms they don't even understand.
		COSELL: One virtue of this interview may be that after reading it, people will think twice before calling me relentless.
	ww3.sportsline.com /b/member/playboy/7205_b1.html (800 words)

	AllRefer.com - Howard Cosell (Sports, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Howard Cosell[kOsel´] Pronunciation Key, 1920–95, American sports broadcaster, b.
		Formerly a lawyer, he began covering sports for the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in 1956, and was identified especially with ABC's prime-time "Monday Night Football" (1970–84) and as a vocal advocate for Muhammad Ali.
		Cosell's often abrasive style, marked by his frequent claims to "tell it like it is," made him one of television's most familiar figures.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/CosellH.html (176 words)

	Howard Cosell
		I can't say, "I knew Howard Cosell before he was Howard Cosell," because I wasn't around in 1918 when he was born Howard William Cohen in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
		Howard Cosell was probably the beginning of the wave that's now moved around to today's Howard Stern and the "In yer face" style of confrontational radio.
		A few years later, Howard Cosell still sounded irritating to me, but he was becoming a New York society darling for reasons I still wasn't paying attention to.
	www.oldradio.com /archives/people/dk-cos.htm (1772 words)

	The Believer - The Wound and the Bow
		When Cosell got back in the limo and Peggy expressed her astonishment at what she’d just seen, Cosell leaned back, took a long drag on his cigar, and said, “Pegeroo, just remember one thing: I know who I am.” Which, according to himself, was “a man of causes.
		Cosell immediately responded by saying, “I didn’t know you… cared.” The way he paused before saying the word “cared,” and the pressure that he put on the word, thrilled me to the bottom of my fifteen-year-old toes.
		The flattery tactic didn’t work the second time, not least because she was wrong: as Howard Cosell well knew, the athletic aesthetic always asserts that the ecstasies experienced by the body are beyond the reach of words, whereas to some cerebral people, unfortunately, the primal appeal of a warrior-athlete is incalculable.
	www.believermag.com /issues/200312?read=article_shields (3947 words)

	ESPN.com - Page2 - John Turturro
		I could do him fairly well as a kid, but imitation is more of a sketch, you tend to exaggerate, you keep it on one rhythm or whatever, and you only have to last a few minutes.
		The more I delved into Cosell, the more I found he was a guy whose weapon was his mind, and I thought that's something that can drive someone, and that helped me find the voice.
		With Howard, there were obviously physical things and vocal things we shared, but finding out all these other things about him that I didn't know -- how he was raised, his law background, his passion for civil rights -- helped me get a feel for him...
	sports.espn.go.com /page2/s/questions/turturro.html (1885 words)

	Boxing News :: Articles : The Legend of Howard Cosell
		By Jockocracy, Cosell criticized television practices of hiring former athletes to comment on their sports. In Cosell’s mind, these athletes were not not qualified journalists nor did they pay their dues before making the jump.
		Cosell's impact can be measured in many ways. In the 60’s, journalism moved from a blue-collar enterprise to a professional job dominated by journalist schools. Cosell’s own background as a lawyer added a professionalism that the entire market was evolving into. Cosell enhanced the professional aspect of the journalist trade with his legal background.
		Cosell viewed himself as more than a sport journalist and had his own design on becoming an evening news anchor but that never happened.
	www.boxingscene.com /index.php?m=show&id=2716 (1138 words)

	Press Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Exploring the life of Cosell, perhaps the most famous sports broadcaster ever, the HBO Sports documentary tells the story of the man who was named both the most liked and most disliked sportscaster in a 1978 TV Guide poll.
		Born Howard William Cohen in 1918, Cosell left a career in law for sports journalism after he began hosting a Saturday morning ABC radio show in 1953.
		Cosell was a pioneer and lightning rod in sports journalism, never afraid to spark controversy or share his beliefs."
	www.peabody.uga.edu /news/pressrelease.asp?ID=29 (570 words)

	Northwest Indiana News: nwitimes.com
		Cosell loved to bully and intimidate, but met his match against the equally acerbic Williamson.
		During the 1974 preseason, a reluctant Williamson was coaxed by ABC Sports president Roone Arledge to join the MNF team of Cosell and Frank Gifford as a replacement for Don Meredith.
		"Howard never knew that I was as controversial and as quick-witted as he was.
	www.thetimesonline.com /articles/2005/12/31/columnists/al_hamnik/5d74c776066dfeb1862570e5001254ec.txt (531 words)

	Howard Cosell's Departure Leaves Unfilled Role In Today's Media
		Reporters too often are the buddies, the mouthpieces, for the sports owners and operators they are covering; too often they function as worshiping handmaidens of the athletes they interview.
		By the way, Cosell's opinion on Rose: "Pete Rose is a compulsive gambler, who I believe does not belong in the Baseball Hall of Fame," Cosell said in his final book in 1991.
		Ah, more than four years after his death, Howard is still telling it like it is. I just wish more were.
	www.armchairqb.com /hbo_cosell.html (838 words)

	Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The FIRST show was great with Linda Ronstadt and her backup band The Eagles, but Howard tried to copy Ed Sullivan to closely by hyping through out the show the next weeks appearance of Britain's Hottest mega hit group The Bay City Rollers (ala The Beatles).
		The name of this show is "Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell," which necessitated the program we now know as "Saturday Night Live" to call itself "NBC's Saturday Night" for the first couple of seasons (remember the opening, "Live, from New York, it's Saturday Night!"??).
		Monday Night Football was never the same after Howard Cosell left, but he won't be missed as a variety show host--in fairness to him, variety shows were a dying genre so I don't think anyone would have made it hosting a Saturday evening prime time variety show.
	www.jumptheshark.com /s/snlwithhowardcosell.htm (692 words)

	Howard Cosell
		One of the most controversial personalities in the history of American broadcasting, Cosell was a World War II army major and a New York City lawyer before he joined the American Broadcasting Company as a radio sports reporter in 1956.
		In the emotion-charged era of the Vietnam War and civil rights agitation, Cosell's actions evoked a storm of protest and expressions of anti-Semitism.
		The product of a non-religious family, Cosell never had a bar mitzvah and had never involved himself in the life of the Jewish community.
	www.jewishsports.com /profiles/howardcosell.htm (343 words)

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