Back in the 1970s and '80s, everyone did a Howard Cosell impression. All you needed were a stentorian voice, access to a dictionary filled with polysyllabic words, a Brooklyn accent and an exaggerated staccato enunciation of every syllable. All together now: "Th-is is How-ahd CO-sell.
George Foreman's crushing right uppercut connected for the first time in Round 1 and, suddenly, the heavyweight champion of the world was on the canvas. At ringside, the shocking sight sent Howard Cosell into a frenzy. Down goes Frazah! Down goes Frazah! Down goes Frazah!" Cosell screamed into his ABC television microphone.
EAST RUTHERFORD -- Thirty years ago, the Hambletonian came east to The Meadowlands from the corn fields of Illinois, ushering in a new era for both the 3-year-old trotting classic and the racetrack. On a miserable, rainy afternoon, Howard Cosell provided the droning commentary on ABC to a national audience that likely never had seen a harness race before.
When ABC Sports guru Roone Arledge was suggesting Howard Cosell for "Monday Night Football," NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle replied: "Cosell? Why don't you just dig up Attila the Hun? Such was the reaction generated by modern broadcasting's first Category 5 hurricane: How-wuuuud Co-sellll. The way he pronounced his own name dripped with chutzpah and self-promotion. In his day, Cosell may have been the most mocked man in America.
What does Buffalo native Steve Mesler have in common with Marv Levy, Sandy Koufax, Gary Bettman, Mark Spitz and Howard Cosell? He's going into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
Sittin' at home on a chilly December night. Thinkin' about John Lennon. Thirty years! Imagine that. Yes, 30 years since that nightmarish late-night when Howard Cosell interrupted "Monday Night Football" to tell us John Lennon was dead.
FROM THE TOP OF THE SPANKING NEW STEEL-AND-GLASS 14-storycondotowernowopenfor inspec-tion on Grove Street just off of Myrtle Avenue, you can see most of Bushwick-the landmarks of the neighborhood that was, and the one that's fast beingremade, the sites of the bad old memories, even of some of the good. 1B This is the Brooklyn neighborhood's first major luxury residential construction project, but the marketers of the 59 condominium units for sale here steer clear of the name Bushwick as much as possible. By 10p.m., minutes after the lights wentoutand the subways froze in place, crowds began pouringonto Broadway, racingunder the elevated train tracks to smash gates and windows of appliance, clothing, and sporting-goods stores, hauling away whatever could be carried: televisions, air con...
...Later that year, Howard Cosell brought the South Bronx international notor...
The author kept in place WABC sportscaster Howard Cosell, known for vociferously reading fan letters he kept in his suit pocket, as well as arrogantly blowing cigar smoke from under his toupee (otherwise known as the "hair in a box").
Most of the summaries of Robinson's life and career tended to downplay his relationship with Steinbrenner, as if the Yankees owner's longtime commitment to Grambling was just an easy tax write-off or mere public relations. The man who first brought the game to Yankee Stadium was team president Mike Burke, but in 1976, when the Urban League's strained finances prevented them from underwriting the game, Robinson, through Howard Cosell, put in a plea to George Steinbrenner.
[Ronn Owens] is a real person," says his old pal Gary Friset, "he's not a `hairdo.' He's the same on the air and off the air, and that's what makes him good." Friset, now the owner of an ad agency in San Francisco, used to be the marketing director at ABC and did a stint as producer and engineer for Owens's show during a long strike. "Ronn always asks the questions that everybody wants to ask," he says. He recalls a time when Margo St. James, the prostitutes' rights activist, was a guest on the show. "The first thing Ronn says, is, `So Margo--ya still hookin' it?' I'll do it in a second. What happened was, I worked after school five days a week. Two of those days, I would take people into a show called Yours For a Song with Bert Parks. The other three days, I had to be a listener for ...
...OK, but didn't Howard Dean's campaign demonstrate that it's not running ...: I do what is probably the best Howard Cosell imitation you ever heard. Oh, I gotta hear it. I'l...
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