Howard Cosell

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This paper studies the life and career of the famous American sportscaster Howard Cosell. The paper begins with Cosell's early years, as an American Jewish boy growing up under the shadow of the Holocaust. The author then traces Cosell's meteoric career and discusses his death in 1995. The paper provides posthumous testimony from famous athletes about Cosell and provides an assessment of the man's impact on American sports and culture. The author writes that Cosell's greatest contribution was perhaps his outspoken views on racism, citing his defense of Muhammed Ali's conscious objector status during the War in Vietnam.

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"Cosell's family had their own aspirations for him. They wanted him to be a lawyer. He started out by "studying English literature and graduating Phi Beta Kappa from New York University" (Shapiro) He moved on from there to get his law degree from New York University. While there, he edited the schools law review publication and was then admitted to the New York State bar in 1941 at the truly remarkable age of 23."

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