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	He's also been overlooked by his employer for racial-coding on his radio program which is not surprising due to ESPN's bias towards white media pundits; the parent company is Disney which doesn't have the greatest track record with African Americans. He often mentions how player's (black) lose capital after retiring from sports as if they're the only people to make bad investments and his most recent comments centered around his intolerance of (running quarterbacks). I remember about a year or two ago when the issue of black coaches in college football came up and he came to the conclusion that it basically (WASN'T TIME) for African American coaches in college football, I wonder what he thinks about the Rooney Rule in the NFL?..but I think I have a good idea! On a final note he often rants along with other pundits on the network about player's conduct but when he needs a fill-in on his radio show it's non other then Doug Gottlieb who was expelled from Notre Dame for stolen credit cards and convicted of misdemeanor fraud, funny how a bunch of black guys can change your moral compass.

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Colin Cowherd
Colin Cowherd on the SportsNation set.
Born	(1964-01-06) January 6, 1964 (age 61) Bay Center, Washington
Career
Show	The Herd with Colin Cowherd, SportsNation
Network	ESPN Radio
Time slot	10am-1pm ET Official Bio

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 ESPNU. He is also the co-host of the television show SportsNation on ESPN2.

Career

Cowherd grew up in Grayland, Washington and attended Eastern Washington University. He 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 thirty-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.

ESPN Radio

In 2003, Cowherd was selected to replace Tony Kornheiser for the late morning time slot (10 a.m. - 1 p.m. (ET)) on ESPN Radio.

His show, The Herd with Colin Cowherd is a syndicated talk radio show broadcast on ESPN Radio affiliates throughout the United States and online at ESPNRadio.com. In 2008, the Herd added a simulcast on ESPNU. The show features commentary on sports news, perspective on other news stories, and interviews with popular analysts and sports figures. Although a sports broadcast, he often reflects on personal life and business as it relates to the sports world. Demographics and regional preferences are frequent topics of his program. The majority of his conversations primarily center around the National Football League (NFL) and college football with mentions of recent topics from Major League Baseball (MLB) and the National Basketball Association (NBA). He also has a featured segment, Spanning the Globe, during Sunday morning's SportsCenter special edition.

Cowherd, along with Michelle Beadle, co-hosts SportsNation; the show debuted on July 6, 2009, on ESPN2.

ESPN Radio Podcasts

The Thundering Herd with Colin Cowherd
The Herd Mentality

Awards

Sports Illustrated's 2005 Radio Personality of the year.
Nevada's Sportscaster of the Year five times, as voted by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.

References

"Success After Eastern". Eastern Washington University. Archived from the original on 2007-09-14. Retrieved 2007-12-08.
Deitch, Richard (December 19, 2007). "2005 Media Awards". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 2007-07-13.
"Now "Heard" Nationwide" (PDF). InsideRadio.com. Retrieved 2007-07-13.

External links

ESPN Inc.

Executives

U.S. networks

Streaming	ESPN+ ESPN3 Venu Sports (33.33%)
Linear TV	ESPN ESPN2 ESPNU ESPNews Deportes ACC Network SEC Network
Part-time	ACC Network Xtra ESPN on ABC SEC Network +
Radio	ESPN Radio Deportes Xtra