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Meet Kenny Washington, the man who broke the NFL's color barrierLOS ANGELES — There is a lot going on in the NFL shop at the Los Angeles Convention Center. There’s a section for Los Angeles Rams gear, Cincinnati Bengals gear, a place to customize your own gear, places for memorabilia such as autographed helmets and portraits, and a DJ. At the entrance of that NF...

Please enjoy these visuals of sports broadcasting’s diversity problemIt’s nearly fall, which means it’s time for outlets that carry football games to dazzle us with their broadcast teams and assignments!...

Marrying Television, Football Gained An Audience But Lost A GameDig Sherry Kafka's 1973 Texas Monthly article on Don Meredith: "Tuning In Dandy Don":...

To Confuse and Confound: Understanding Stengelese

Check out the letter that Howard Cosell sent to Bill Heinz in 1962....

Excerpts From The Long-Lost Script For <em>Monday Night Football: The Cartoon</em>

So total at the time was Cosell's saturation of culture that Irwin Weiner, an ABC Sports vice president for twenty years, once came up with a concept for a Saturday morning kids' series called "Monday Night Football: The Cartoon", one that would turn Cosell, Gifford and Meredith into animated charac...

And Then Al Michaels Said To Howard Cosell: "You're Drunk. You're Ruining The Fucking Telecast."

Howard Cosell, who died in 1995, ruled sports broadcasting from the 1960s until the 1980s. He commentated on Monday Night Football from its inception, called boxing's biggest fights, and popped up on Olympics and baseball telecasts, too. In his new book, Howard Cosell: The Man, the Myth, and the Tra...

30 Years Ago Tonight, Howard Cosell Told America John Lennon Had Died

John Lennon was killed while returning to his New York City apartment on December 8, 1980. That evening, as Patriots kicker John Smith jogged onto the field to attempt a fourth-quarter game-winning field goal on ABC's MNF, Howard Cosell announced the news....

Remembering Howard Cosell, 13 Years Later

Howard Cosell died 13 years ago today. You will have to forgive us, and most people who read this site who are younger than us, but Cosell is more a legend among our generation than he is anyone who has a tangible relationship to the way we remember sporting events. Cosell was last on "Monday Night ...