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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the time, Crystal was an up-and-comer who had starred on "Soap" and briefly on "Saturday Night Live." He also was known for his ...

Howard Cosell didn't know what to do. He and his fellow "Monday Night Football" announcers Frank Gifford and Don Meredith were broadcasting the New England Patriots-Miami Dolphins game on Dec. 8, 1980 ...

“Don’t (Co)sell the Dolphins short,” a king-sized banner pleaded in the Orange Bowl. “Frank-ly, they’re Dandy.” And Cosell (Howard) and Frank (Gifford) and Dandy (Don Meredith) didn’t as the nation ...

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 ...

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 ...

Howard Cosell’s outspoken, provocative, and oft-polarizing style redefined sportscasting, but Al Michaels remembers it also making him difficult to work with at the end of his career. Michaels ...

Howard Cosell was on the call for many of the biggest boxing matches of all time, including many of Muhammad Ali’s signature moments. To many, Cosell is the greatest combat sports announcer ever. But ...

How could it be that “a human spectacle as unique as Howard Cosell” has already been widely forgotten? said Richard Sandomir in The New York Times. With his “adenoidal Brooklyn voice, polysyllabic ...

Al Michaels recently offered a candid, and somewhat somber, reflection on his time working alongside Howard Cosell, asserting that toward the end of his career, Cosell "turned bitter" and became "very ...

“We’re just two colored boys from the ghetto and we have the whole world watching us in the greatest event of all time!” Thus did Muhammad Ali describe himself and Joe Frazier hours before they faced ...

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 ...