Tim Cowlishaw
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Timothy Cowlishaw is a national sportswriter for The Dallas Morning News, a regular panelist on the ESPN sports talk show Around the Horn, and the lead reporter for the ESPN2 racing show NASCAR Now.
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[edit] Early life
Cowlishaw was raised in Dallas and grew up with the local sports teams. He began going to Dallas Cowboys games in 1963, Texas Rangers games in 1972, and Dallas Mavericks games in 1980. He graduated from Richardson High School in 1973 and in 1978 he graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in communications. He is from Tulsa, Oklahoma.
[edit] Career
Tim Cowlishaw has been with the Dallas Morning News since 1984 and has been a sports columnist at the newspaper since August 2, 1998, but before joining The Dallas Morning News, he wrote for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, the Daily Oklahoman and the San Jose Mercury News. While at The Dallas Morning News, Cowlishaw covered SMU athletics, college basketball, major league baseball, the Dallas Cowboys, as well as the Dallas Stars before he became a columnist.
In 2002, Cowlishaw placed in the top five sports columnists of the nation among large circulation newspapers by the Associated Press Sports Editors.
[edit] Around the Horn
Cowlishaw can be seen regularly on ESPN's Around the Horn, along with former fellow sportswriter from The Dallas Morning News, Kevin Blackistone. Cowlishaw has been a panelist on the show since 2002 and host Tony Reali frequently introduces him at the beginning of episodes as "Texas Tim" Cowlishaw. Being known for his signature goatee, it is rare that he will sport a "clean" look, though it has happened, as was evidenced in a handful of episodes. Cowlishaw often reminds Reali of previous successful predictions, typically of recent athletic events previously discussed, in the hope of getting additional scoring points. This always results in Reali saying "self-promotion is the mating call of the mute button" and deducting points from Cowlishaw's score. The other panelists often poke fun at the fact that ice hockey and NASCAR are Cowlishaw's favorite sports and it is rare that those two sports come up as topics on the show. Hockey topics will often be discussed on the show when Cowlishaw is not on the show, prompting Reali to say "Cowlishaw not here today, let's talk hockey." He also likes talking about the BCS whenever he can. When Cowlishaw wins the showdown and gets 30 seconds at the end of the show to expound on any subject, he will typically discuss neglected ice hockey or NASCAR topics. This is greeted with snores by the other panelists and with Reali pretending to read the newspaper while wondering aloud why he let Cowlishaw win the showdown in the first place. Additionally, Cowlishaw often wears an LSU Tigers tie on the show and refers to LSU as "my LSU Tigers," although as a Dallas native, his connection to LSU has never been explained. On Friday, January 26, 2007, Cowlishaw celebrated his 100th win on Around the Horn. He is one of five panelists to achieve that plateau (Woody Paige, Bill Plaschke, Jay Mariotti, J.A. Adande).
Cowlishaw is the first panelist to achieve a three-peat victory on Around the Horn.
[edit] NASCAR Now
Cowlishaw has been a reporter on NASCAR Now, since February 2007.
