Howard Cosell
...f his own knowledgeas well as anger and humor, into a interview that becomes an event. For these reasons, his life will rank among the best sports commentators of all time. You will find Cosell wherever things are happening. Or as Ralph Houck told himsomewhhat indelicately, "You're like shit, you are everywhere". On Sepember 5th 1972, for instance, Cosell was lying on his back slope of a hill in the Olympic village outside of Munich only yards away from building 31 where Palastinian guerriellias where holding the doomed Israelli Olympians hostage. Cosell was taping the scene for the American public. Cosell was with Muhammad Ali when he won his titleand he was with him when he lost it- once to the boxing commision and once to Joe Frazier. Cose...