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| | name = Colin Cowherd | |||
| | image = Colin Cowherd Cropped.jpg | |||
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| | caption = Colin Cowherd on the ] set. | |||
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| | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1964|1|6}} | |||
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| | timeslot = 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. ] Monday-Friday | |||
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| '''Colin Cowherd''' (born January 6, 1964) is an American ] personality. He is currently the host of '']'' on ] and ]. He is also the co-host of the television show '']'' on ].<ref name="Bio">{{Cite web|url=http://www.espnmediazone3.com/us/2009/10/29/cowherd_colin/ |title=Colin Cowherd |date=29 October 2009 |publisher=ESPN.com |accessdate=16 February 2011}}</ref> | |||
| ==Career== | |||
| Cowherd grew up in ] and attended ].<ref>{{cite web | title = Success After Eastern | publisher = Eastern Washington University | url = http://www.ewu.edu/x46899.xml | accessdate = 2007-12-08 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20070914185013/http://www.ewu.edu/x46899.xml <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2007-09-14}}</ref> He began his career as the play-by-play voice for the ]'s ]. He eventually became a sports director at ]-TV in ], where he was named Nevada's Sportscaster of the Year five times.<ref name="InsideRadio">{{cite web |last=Kinosian |first=Mike|title = Now “Heard” Nationwide | publisher = InsideRadio.com | url = http://ftp.media.radcity.net/zmst/insideradio/Interviews/CowherdArticle04-08.pdf | format = ] | accessdate = 2007-07-13|date=8 April 2004}}</ref> He also served as sports anchor at ]-TV in ]. He moved to ], in 1996, where he spent nearly two years at ] 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 ] to the morning drive time.<ref name="ESPN081908">{{Cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/espnradio/colincowherd/news/story?id=3543280 |title=The Herd with Colin Cowherd to simulcast on ESPNU beginning Aug. 25 |publisher=ESPN.com|accessdate=16 February 2011 |date=19 August 2008}}</ref> | |||
| ===ESPN Radio=== | |||
| In 2003, Cowherd was selected to replace ] for the late morning time slot (10 a.m. - 1 p.m. (ET)) on ESPN Radio. | |||
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| His show, '']'' 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 ]. 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. ] and regional preferences are frequent topics of his program. The majority of his conversations primarily center around the ] (NFL) and ] with mentions of recent topics from ] (MLB) and the ] (NBA). He also has a featured segment, Spanning the Globe, during the second segment of his show. In this segment, he interviews reporters in different parts of the country to talk about the day's main topics in their region. | |||
| Cowherd, along with ], co-hosts '']''; the show debuted on July 6, 2009, on ESPN2. | |||
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| ==Criticism== | |||
| *Eddie Guerrero's Death - In November 2005, Cowherd was criticized by former ESPN ], George Solomon for his treatment of the death of ] (WWE) wrestler ]. Colin was quoted as saying "he passed away doing ]s", implying that Guerrero's death had been caused by steroid use. According to Dr. Kathryn Berg, the assistant chief medical examiner for Hennepin County in Minnesota, the autopsy showed that Guerrero died from a hardening and narrowing of the arteries that supply blood and oxygen to the heart.<ref >{{cite web | last = Solomon | first = George | title = Radio aims to be provocative, fair | publisher = ESPN | date = December 27, 2005 | url = http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=solomon_george&id=2272113 | accessdate = 2007-07-13 }}</ref> | |||
| *Using Un-attributed Material - In March 2006, Cowherd was criticized for using a joke on his show that was posted on the "M Zone", a ] fan ] without crediting it.<ref>{{cite web | last = Solomon | first = George | title = Vitale still signature face, voice of ESPN hoops | publisher = ESPN.com | url = http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=solomon_george&id=2396135 | date = April 6, 2006 }}</ref> Cowherd later apologized on-air and gave the M Zone full credit for the material. The M Zone response: "He was very cool about everything. This incident is now resolved and over." | |||
| *''The Herd'' Knocks Blog Offline - On April 5, 2007, listeners of The Herd knocked The Big Lead blog site offline. Cowherd directed his listeners to access the web site home page simultaneously which resulted in a massive increase in traffic. The blog site's servers were not capable of handling so many users at one time so the site was knocked off-line for approximately 96 hours. ESPN's new ], Le Anne Schreiber wrote an article sharing her (negative) opinion of Cowherd's actions. Schreiber contacted Traug Keller, a ] at ESPN Radio, and Keller indicated that Cowherd would face no disciplinary action for the stunt, because there had been no policy against such a tactic at the time. To prevent this from happening again, Keller instituted a zero tolerance policy of such activities in the future.<ref>{{cite web | last = Schreiber | first = Le Anne | title = Cowherd's 'attack' on blog: 'Zero tolerance' | publisher = ESPN | date = April 8, 2007 | url = http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?id=2830113 | accessdate = 2007-07-13}}</ref> | |||
| *Sean Taylor's Murder - Cowherd was criticized for comments made regarding the circumstances surrounding ]'s death. On November 28, 2007, one day after Taylor's home invasion murder, Cowherd claimed that Taylor's past had brought this upon himself, and that Redskins fans who mourned him were not "grown ups." Cowherd stated about Taylor's turnaround; "Well, yeah, just because you clean the rug doesn't mean you got everything out. Sometimes you've got stains, stuff so deep it never ever leaves." Taylor's death was later found to be the result of a botched robbery, and the robbers hadn't known Taylor was home when they entered.<ref>{{cite web | last = Schreiber | first = Le Anne | title = Proportion, perspective missing ingredients in news coverage | publisher = ESPN | date = December 11, 2007 | url = http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=schreiber_leanne&id=3148853 | accessdate = 2007-12-13}}</ref> | |||
| ==ESPN Radio podcasts== | |||
| *''The Thundering Herd with Colin Cowherd'' | |||
| *''The Herd Mentality'' | |||
| ==Awards== | |||
| * '']'''s 2005 Radio Personality of the year.<ref>{{cite web | last = Deitch | first= Richard | title = 2005 Media Awards | publisher = Sports Illustrated | date = December 19, 2007 | url = http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/richard_deitsch/12/19/media.circus/index.html | accessdate = 2007-07-13}}</ref> | |||
| * Nevada's Sportscaster of the Year five times, as voted by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.<ref name="InsideRadio" /> | |||
| == References == | |||
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