ADVERTISEMENT Finally, 16 years after his death, comes the first full-scale biography, Mark Ribowsky’s entertaining Howard Cosell: The Man, the Myth, and the Transformation of American Sports.

'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 ...

W.W. Norton & Company, 477 pages, $29.95. How is it possible that 16 years have passed without a definitive biography of sportscaster Howard Cosell? But Ribowsky also gained something: perspective.

Howard Cosell drank himself out of his announcing job at ABC, according a new biography of the famed TV sports personality. During a 1984 American League Championship game, Cosell and his partner ...

The biography doesn’t really take off until ... “Very few people liked Howard Cosell … but that’s the point,” the late columnist Lewis Grizzard wrote years later.

The biography doesn’t really take off until ... “Very few people liked Howard Cosell … but that’s the point,” wrote the late columnist Lewis Grizzard years later.

How could it be that “a human spectacle as unique as Howard Cosell” has already been widely ... s “vivid,” if sometimes overexcited, biography. From our morning news briefing to a weekly ...

Howard Cosell passed away 20 years ago this month ... wrote longtime newspaperman Dave Kindred in Sound and Fury, a dual biography of Cosell and Ali, about the stretch in the 70’s when the ...

LITTLE ROCK — How is it possible that 16 years have passed without a definitive biography of sportscaster Howard Cosell? Mark Ribowsky, author of a superb book on Satchel Paige, may have lost ...

Names like Walter Cronkite and Howard Cosell are world-renowned in the fields of news and sports, and their unmistakable voices could sooth a dire situation yet also magnify a great one.

The biography doesn’t really take off till ... “Very few people liked Howard Cosell ... but that’s the point,” wrote the late columnist Lewis Grizzard years later.