PHILADELPHIA -- Howard Cosell loved standing next to Muhammad Ali. Did it often. The frog-homely broadcaster and the prince-handsome fighter, hip-to-hip, swapping gentle insults, poking each other ...

First, you hear him tapping. He’s in his office, on his farm on the southern border of Michigan, making art. He’s such a big man–solid as a brick wall and well over 6 ft.–that he nearly dwarfs the ...

In 2010, actor and comedian Billy Crystal wrote an essay for USA TODAY Sports on what Muhammad Ali means to him. Ali and I had been friends for years as we sat next to each other at the funeral for ...

The Virginia football coach broke out impressions of famed broadcaster Howard Cosell and former boxing great Muhammad Ali on Tuesday at the ACC Kickoff while doing play-by-play of Canaan Severin's one ...

Billy Crystal told a funny story to Stephen Colbert on Monday about guest-hosting “The Tonight Show” back in the 1980s and having to deal with a “looped” and sobbing Howard Cosell. (Watch the video ...

Year-end compilations of bests and worsts recall a TV Guide poll of 1978 that determined the most disliked sportscaster in America was Howard Cosell and the most liked was Howard Cosell. So when ...

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 ...