Howard Cosell was a lawyer who became America's most well-known sports commentator. Along with Frank Gifford and Don Meredith, he made ABC's Monday Night Football a television institution, and his numerous interviews with Muhammad Ali are legendary.

1. Born: March 25, 1918
2. Full name: Howard William Cohen
3. Served as a Major in the US Army Transportation Corps during WWII
4. First person to publicly use Muhammad Ali's Black Muslim name; called all three fights between Ali and Joe Frazier
5. Played himself in three Woody Allen movies, Bananas (1971), Sleeper (1973) and Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
6. Hosted Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell
7. Called 4 World Series for ABC
8. December 1980: Announced to the world the death of John Lennon during Monday Night Football
9. Childhood friend of Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis
10. Called numerous boxing matches, including the Muhammad Ali-George Foreman "Rumble in the Jungle"

• March 25, 1918: Born

• 1946: Attorney in private practice in New York

• 1953: Gave up law practice to join ABC Radio as a sports commentator

• 1970: Commentator on ABC's Monday Night Football

• 1986: Began serving as a faculty member of Brown University; Daily News column

• 1993: Inducted into the American Sportcasters Association Hall of Fame

• 1994: Inducted into Television Hall of Fame

• 1995: Sports Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award

• April 23, 1995: Died of a heart embolism

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