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Date of Birth
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25-March-1918
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Place of Birth
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Winston-Salem
(Forsyth County, North Carolina, Area code 336)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Howard William Cohen, "Humble" Howard Cosell, Howard William Cosell, Humble
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Profession
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Lawyer, Journalist, TV Anchor, Talk show host, Sports commentator, Author, Radio personality, Announcer, Actor, Soldier
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Howard William Cosell was an American sports journalist who was widely known for his blustery, cocksure personality. Cosell said of himself, "Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. There's no question that I'm all of those things." In its obituary for Cosell, The New York Times described Cosell's impact on American sports coverage: "He entered sports broadcasting in the mid-1950s, when the predominant style was unabashed adulation, [and] offered a brassy counterpoint that was first ridiculed, then copied until it became the dominant note of sports broadcasting."
In 1993, TV Guide named Howard Cosell The All-Time Best Sportscaster in its issue Celebrating 40 years of television.
In 1996, Howard Cosell was ranked #47 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time.
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