I love you. Happy birthday.” Cosell would die in 1995 and Ali was one of the first to issue a statement: “Howard Cosell was a good man and he lived a good life. I have been interviewed by many ...

There are probably as many Howard Cosell stories floating around as there are number of days the man trod the earth, which was in excess of 28,000 when he died Sunday. Here are a few of them ...

Howard Cosell ... discussion between Cosell and Gifford on what to do with news of such significance during a football telecast. Today would have been John Lennon's 80th birthday.

On the replay, Howard Cosell remarks, "That little monkey gets loose, doesn't he?" The apparent comparison of Garrett, an African American, to a primate got Cosell in a heap of trouble.

And when Ali was banned from boxing and imprisoned for using refusing to be drafted, Cosell stood by him. And in a touching moment at Ali's 50th birthday in 1992, just a few years before Cosell ...