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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...