Colin Cowherd
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Colin Cowherd (born January 6, 1964) is an American sports radio personality. He is currently the host of The Herd with Colin Cowherd on ESPN Radio and host of the television program Missing Link on ESPN Classic.
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[edit] Career
In 1985 Cowherd graduated from Eastern Washington University[1] and began his career as the play-by-play voice for the Pacific Coast League's Las Vegas Stars. He eventually became a sports director at KVBC-TV in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he was named Nevada's Sportscaster of the Year five times. He also served as sports anchor at WTVT-TV in Tampa, Florida. He moved to Portland, Oregon, in 1996, where he spent nearly two years at KGW Northwest NewsChannel 8, working as a sports anchor and hosting the 30-minute 'A guy's take on baseball' program. In 2001, The Herd moved from an afternoon time slot on all-sports radio KFXX to the morning drive time.
[edit] ESPN Radio
In 2003, Cowherd was selected to replace Tony Kornheiser for the late morning time slot on ESPN Radio.
His show, The Herd with Colin Cowherd is a syndicated talk radio show broadcast on ESPN Radio affiliates throughout the U.S. and online at ESPNRadio.com. The show features commentary on the day's sports news, perspective on other news stories, and interviews with popular analysts and sports figures. Demographics and regional preferences are frequent topics of his program. The majority of his conversations center around primarily NFL and college football with mentions of recent topics from MLB and NBA. He also has a featured segment, Spanning the Globe, during Sunday morning's Sportscenter special edition. Colin was also mentioned as a possible candidate to replace the departing Dan Patrick at ESPN Radio before it was announced that Mike Tirico and Stephen A. Smith would take over the 1-4PM EST time slot.[2]
[edit] ESPN Radio Podcasts
- The Thundering Herd with Colin Cowherd
- The Herd Mentality
[edit] Controversies on "The Herd"
Cowherd has been criticized in articles by ESPN's ombudsman three times for his activities on the show. The first was for using unattributed material from "M Zone,"[3] a University of Michigan fan blog. The second occurred in 2007 after he told listeners to "blow up" the servers of sports blog "The Big Lead," causing a massive influx of visitors to the site.[4] The blog site's servers were not capable of handling so many users at one time so the site was knocked offline until the site moved to a new host that could handle a larger volume of users.
The third instance was related to his comments in late 2007 relating to the death of football player Sean Taylor. Cowherd angered many when he stated that Taylor's death was his gang-related past catching up with him. Taylor's death was later found to have been the result of a botched robbery, and the robbers reportedly did not know that Taylor was home at the time. ESPN's Ombudsman, Le Anne Schreiber said she had received emails saying that Cowherd spoke in a "gloating, know-it-all voice," and that emailers found his statements "appalling" and "indecent."[5]
[edit] Awards
- Sports Illustrated's 2005 Radio Personality of the year.[6]
- Nevada's Sportscaster of the Year five times, as voted by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.[7]
[edit] References
- ^ Success After Eastern. Eastern Washington University. Retrieved on 2007-12-08.
- ^ Tirico, Stephen A. to take over Patrick's time slot. ESPN.
- ^ Solomon, George (April 6, 2006). Vitale still signature face, voice of ESPN hoops. ESPN.com.
- ^ Schreiber, Le Anne (April 8, 2007). Cowherd's 'attack' on blog: 'Zero tolerance'. ESPN. Retrieved on 2007-07-13.
- ^ Schreiber, Le Anne (December 11, 2007). Proportion, perspective missing ingredients in news coverage. ESPN. Retrieved on 2007-12-13.
- ^ Deitch, Richard (December 19, 2007). 2005 Media Awards. Sports Illustrated. Retrieved on 2007-07-13.
- ^ Now “Heard” Nationwide (PDF). InsideRadio.com. Retrieved on 2007-07-13.
