NEW YORK -- As a young boy, Colin Cosell would climb into Poppa's lap and listen to that famed voice, the nasal, New York tone booming to sports fans all over the country. The sound of Howard Cosell ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The most famous television sportscaster of the 1970s was Howard Cosell, a nasal-toned, staccato blast of magniloquent pomposity ...

Both loved and loathed for his nasal, staccato delivery and polysyllabic self-importance—a TV Guide poll ranked Cosell the nation’s most popular and unpopular sportscaster—Howard Cosell is the braying ...

The 5-year-old boy would put on his famous grandfather’s headphones and sit on his lap and ultimately watch the man he called “Poppa” record his national radio spot for ABC, “Speaking of Sports,” ...

PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. (2010) — The voice, abruptly unleashed from an audio vault, ascends in rising tides of dissonance. It is unrelenting in purpose and fervor. It is, of course, Howard Cosell.