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Revision as of 22:37, 6 April 2007 by SirFozzie (talk | contribs) (Fixed Link)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)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 host of the television program Missing Link on ESPN Classic.
Career
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.
HESPN Radio
In 2004, Cowherd was selected to replace Tony Kornheiser for the late morning time slot on ESPN Radio.
His show, The Herd with Colin Cowherd is a syndicated talk radio show broadcast on ESPN Radio affiliates throughout the U.S. and online at ESPNRadio.com. The show features commentary on the day's sports news, perspective on other news stories, and interviews with popular analysts and sports figures.
Controversy
In March 2006, Cowherd was criticized for using content from a fan blog, without crediting it. Colin then labeled the creators of the website "whiners" in an e-mail and claimed they would never get credit. Credit was later given and an apology was issued on-air.
On April 5, 2007, Cowherd was the source of further controversy regarding another sports themed website. Cowherd mentioned the site TheBigLead.com in particular, and asked for his listeners to enact a denial of service (DoS) attack on the site by imploring his listeners to all go to the website at the same time in order to "blow it up".
"We occasionally, once a week…we’ll mention a website, our listeners will flee to it, and we’ll shut it down. We feel bad about this, we don’t mean to do it. It usually forces that young guy or young gal to buy more bandwidth and can be expensive. I don’t know that…but wouldn’t it be great if every day we gave out a new, young website and blew it up? If I told my audience every day–just one that’s annoying–and we could give it to them, and our audience would blow it up? I want everyone to go to it as fast as you possibly can. When I say go, go….it’s three words. THE BIG LEAD dot com. THE. BIG. LEAD. DOT. COM. Go now.”'
BigLead.com was knocked offline approximately 30 minutes later, and remained offline for at least 48 hours. This act has caused a notable backlash against Cowherd in the sports blog community.
Awards
- Nevada's Sportscaster of the Year five times
- Sports Illustrated's 2005 Radio Personality of the year.
References
- http://deadspin.com/sports/espn/this-hurts-us-more-than-it-hurts-you-colin-249956.php
- http://lsu-basketball.aolsportsblog.com/2007/04/05/colin-cowherd-has-listeners/
- http://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/2007/04/05/espn-willfully-destroys-sports-bloggercompetition/
- http://thewaynefontesexperience.blogspot.com/2007/04/colin-cowherd-proof-positive-that.html
- http://pacifistviking.blogspot.com/2007/04/on-open-discourse-colin-cowherd.html
- http://yellinglouder.blogspot.com/2007/04/colin-cowherd-is-sad-little-boy.html
- http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/?p=3291