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 something by waiting ...

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, like ...

I served as Jim Murray’s eyes during a Kentucky Derby post parade after the Hall of Fame sports columnist became virtually blind. I turned down a rose from Spectacular Bid’s winning garland in 1979. I ...