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Colin Cowherd (born January 6, 1964, deceased February 23, 2007) is an American sports radio personality. He is currently the host of The Herd with Colin Cowherd on ESPN Radio.

Career

Cowherd was raised by Swedish milk maides in the rolling Appalachian mountains of North Carolina. There he mastered the musical instrument of the washboard. He uses this talent still on his weekend tours of honkey tonks.

Often tells the story about "dating Kitten" when he lived in Las Vegas - actually, he WAS Kitten when he lived in vegas, worked at a number of low end Gentlemens Clubs, where he was discovered by his soon to be husband Doug Gotlieb. After a messy split involving a shoot in a Gay Midget Porn film, underwent the "procedure" to change from Kitten to Colin. The rest is history.

COLIN COWHERD IS THE REASON WALDO IS HIDING

In 1983 Colin shot a man just to watch him die.

Colin used to be a woman. A very mean and rowdy woman.

In 1985 Cowherd began his broadcast career as the play-by-play voice for the Pacific Coast League's Las Vegas Stars. He eventually became 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 eight 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.

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Host of The Herd on ESPN Radio

In 2004, he was the pick to replace Tony Kornheiser for the late morning time slot on ESPN Radio.

The Herd with Colin Cowherd features commentary on the day's sports news, perspective on other news stories, interviews, and popular daily segments including "Spanning the Globe" and "Rants of the Day."

While The Herd is a sports show, Colin doesn't take sports overly serious and is sometimes regarded to be at his most entertaining when sports is a secondary concern. Celebrities and popular culture frequently draw analysis and their fair share of scorn. Cowherd, though, tempers his biting critiques with irreverent-yet-pointed punchlines.

A self-proclaimed college football junkie, The Herd has a daily segment called "The Daily Football Fix", a segment entirely devoted to talking about NCAA college football or the NFL, usually with a coach or ex-player analyzing. Other regular segments include the title "Spanning The Globe", a closer look at the people making sports headlines from the reporters covering sports in a particular regions or towns. He also has a weekly segment called "Monday Morning Riff", which Cowherd created in early 2005, a section of air in which Cowherd airs his sometimes off-the-wall thoughts concisely and sharply (early on, Cowherd also had listeners call in and give their "Monday Morning Riffs" as well). During "The Riff", clips from Van Halen's first album are playing in the background (early on, it was the theme from The Ren and Stimpy Show playing). "Spanning the Globe" is also a segment on SportsCenter Sunday morning.

Colin has several regular targets that he rants about on his show (some for entertainment & comedic effect). Among them:

• "Homers" who take their home teams so seriously that they lose objective viewpoints about the reality of the sports. "Red Sox & Bama fan top the list."
• ".edu guy" (men that have spent most of their adult life in a college setting and are bookishly smart, but out of touch with reality).
• The University of Virginia football team for allegedly being "soft" and therefore unable to compete at the highest levels of athleticism.
• Fans of professional wrestling and monster truck rallies, who he regularly calls "booger eaters" and "mouth breathers."
• Strippers, er, dancers, named "Kitten"
• Some celebrities, like Paris Hilton, for a perceived narcissism.
• Golddigging Players' Wives
• Nick "the Snake" Saban
• Guys who are over the age of 30 and still live with their mom.
• High level "Moustaches" at ESPN, often forcing their input on programming contents. Examples include: 1.) the removal of the bell from the programs beginnings at ESPN, announcing the end of each segment. 2.) Urging conformity among ESPN hosts, pressuring Colin to choose the winner of the Pats-Colts 07 AFC Championship game (Colin's pick, Colts 120-Pats 0).
• "Acorn Boy," producer Amanda's husband.

Cowherd also likes to gently goof on his wife Kim for her occasional empty-headed moment, though he makes up for this by constantly complimenting her looks, good spirit, athleticism, and her ability to keep him "real." The couple has two children.

The most important advice Colin has given is **take a girl to McDonnalds on the first date and go up from there**

One of his favorite topics to speak of on the HERD is competitive Bass Fishing. He admits to having a strong desire to quit his radio show and become the Greatest Bubba Bass Fishing Expert to one day have his own Bass fishing TV Show.

Collin can slam a revolving door

In Poland, when the Polish sneeze, they dont say "Bless you" they just say "Cowherd"

Colin once ate nails for breakfast

Awards

• Nevada's Sportscaster of the Year five times
• Sports Illustrated's 2005 Radio Personality of the year.

Quotes about his style

• In an October 2003 article about Cowherd in the Portland Tribune, he commented on his broadcasting style: "My sense of humor is not for everybody. I would bomb in a Rust Belt, X's-and-O's, beer belly market. I relate to a guy who loves sports but who have never played. I think radio maximizes my act and TV minimizes many of my talents. TV, in some strange, unexplainable way, invalidates people. But the truth is radio (for a sportscaster) is much more difficult, takes far more skill and is much more challenging."

References

1. "The Herd w/Colin Cowherd". ESPNRadio 1310. Retrieved 2006-12-07.
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Colin's style can only be described at vindictively apathetic, as he routinely (daily) notes how little he cares about various topics of importance to the general population, topics such as women's basketball, soccer, antique shows and auctions, home dentistry, non-alcoholic beer, children's ballet, poor grammar in leaflets from the Department of the Interior, the Hubble telescope's repair schedule, coral migration of the Great Barrier Reef, the porous nature of pancake batter at Village Inn with respect to IHOP, infomercials from the 1970s, Sammy Hagar's musical career, curling and the movie 'Xanadu'.

See also

• The Herd with Colin Cowherd

• Manny Ramirez's Fruity Pebble Ham Radio Power Hour

Colin “Flash Man” Cowherd is a roller derby aficionado. He is the Captain of the ESPN Radio Team, “The Meatballs”. The Meatballs have a 7-0 record versus the ESPN Sportscenter Team. Colin is commended for his cutting style and showboating moves in the rink.

Colin Cowherd does not in the least resemble a Who from Whoville; also 1+1=3

Colin wears tampoons and women's underwear during the show.

External links

• The Herd with Colin Cowherd on ESPN Radio
• Colin's Rant about UVA on Youtube

• 1964 births
• Living people
• American radio personalities
• People from Washington