Colin Cowherd
Colin Murray Cowherd (born January 6, 1964) is an American sports media personality. Cowherd began his broadcasting career as sports director of Las Vegas television station KVBC and as a sports anchor on several other stations before joining ESPN in 2003, where he hosted a radio show on the ESPN Radio network and also became one of the original hosts of ESPN's television program SportsNation, as well as Colin's New Football Show. Cowherd is currently the host of The Herd with Colin Cowherd on Fox Sports Radio and Fox Sports 1.
Colin Cowherd
After Cowherd made a controversial statement about Dominican Republic baseball players in July 2015, he was suspended by ESPN. In August 2015, it was officially announced that Cowherd would be joining Fox Sports on a then four-year deal. The Herd is FS1's top-rated studio program. He was also a host of Speak For Yourself on FS1. In 2021, Cowherd founded and launched his own podcast network, The Volume.
Early life and education[edit]
Cowherd was born in Aberdeen, Washington.[4] His father, Charles, was an optometrist and his British-born mother Patricia (d. 2014)[5] was a housewife who emigrated to the United States at age 14.[6] He has an older sister named Marlene. Cowherd grew up in Grayland, Washington, a small fishing town about 130 miles away from Seattle. His parents divorced while he was young due to his father's alcoholism, and he and his sister were raised mainly by their mother.[7] Cowherd described himself as a loner during his childhood, spending much time sitting on his roof, listening to baseball games on the radio. He graduated from Ocosta High School in Westport in 1982.[8] In high school, Cowherd played quarterback for the football team[9] and was an All-Far West Conference guard for the basketball team.[10] Cowherd was roommates with football player and coach Jim McElwain at Eastern Washington University.
Career[edit]
Early career[edit]
Cowherd began his career as the play-by-play voice for the San Diego Padres Triple-A affiliate Las Vegas Stars. He eventually became a sports director at KVBC in Las Vegas, where he was named Nevada's Sportscaster of the Year five times.[11] He served as weekend sports anchor at WTVT in Tampa, Florida from 1993 to 1995.[12] In 1996, he moved to Portland, Oregon where he worked as a sports anchorman for KGW-TV.[13] In 2001, The Herd moved from an afternoon time slot on all-sports radio KFXX to the morning drive time.[14]