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Howard William Cosell (; born Howard William Cohen; March 25, 1918 – April 23, 1995) was an American sports journalist who was widely known for his blustery, cocksure personality.〔 Cosell said of himself, "Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. There's no question that I'm all of those things." In its obituary for Cosell, ''The New York Times'' described Cosell's effect on American sports coverage: "He entered sports broadcasting in the mid-1950s, when the predominant style was unabashed adulation, () offered a brassy counterpoint that was first ridiculed, then copied until it became the dominant note of sports broadcasting." In 1993, ''TV Guide'' named Howard Cosell The All-Time Best Sportscaster in its issue celebrating 40 years of television. In 1996, Howard Cosell was ranked #47 on ''TV Guide''s 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time. ==Early life== Cosell was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina to accountant Isidore Cohen and his wife Nellie Cohen.〔(Howard Cosell profile ar Film Reference.com )〕 The grandson of a rabbi,〔Leonard Shapiro. April 24, 1995. (Howard Cosell Dies at 77 ). ''The Washington Post.'' Retrieved: May 18, 2013〕 he was raised in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in English from New York University, where he was a member of Pi Lambda Phi. He then earned a degree at New York University School of Law, where he was a member of the law review. Cosell's grandfather's name had been changed by immigration authorities when he entered the United States. Howard Cosell changed his name from "Cohen" to "Cosell" while a law student as a way to honor his father and grandfather by reverting to a version of his family's original Polish name. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Howard Cosell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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