“How are you, Howard?” he said. Cosell, in a bright yellow sports jacket, started out by asking the former Beatle what he thought of football. After giving his “tea party” reply, Lennon ...

The first time I met Howard ­Cosell, I wound up replacing him ... When Cosell was on the road, he usually took only one jacket: the Tweety Bird–yellow blazer that ABC Sports inexplicably ...

In the fall of 1981, a white stretch limo carrying sportscasters Al Michaels and Howard Cosell was driving through ... cigar and wearing his bright yellow ABC blazer, the fight stopped and ...

Howard Cosell, who died yesterday at 77, was at his core a shameless self-promoter, full of bombast, self-importance and self-righteousness, the kinds of qualities that routinely made him America ...

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 ...

It is unrelenting in purpose and fervor. It is, of course, Howard Cosell. Muhammad Ali — who died Friday at age 74 — sitting in a chair, stops shaking and slowly raises his head. There ...

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.

'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 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 ...