Howard Cosell
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Emerging from a Brooklyn upbringing as the grandson of a rabbi, he earned a NYU law degree and entered the bar in 1939 before serving as a major in the Army Transportation Corps during World II. After the war he shifted to broadcasting, launching a Little League radio program on WABC in 1953 that led to the syndicated show Speaking of Sports and a full-time career with ABC Radio and later WABC-TV.…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources