Colin Cowherd
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Cowherd on the SportsNation set in 2010
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| Birth name | Colin Murray Cowherd |
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January 6, 1964 Bay Center, Washington |
| Show | The Herd with Colin Cowherd |
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Fox Sports Radio Fox Sports 1 |
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 in 2003 joining ESPN, 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 the host of The Herd with Colin Cowherd on Fox Sports Radio and Fox Sports 1. He is also a host of Speak For Yourself - also on FS1.
In July 2015, it was announced that Cowherd would leave ESPN following the end of his contract with the company, and in turn it was announced in August 2015 that he would join Fox Sports beginning in September—a deal which includes his radio show moving to Fox Sports Radio and Fox Sports 1. While he was to leave at the end of the month, Cowherd was suspended from ESPN on July 24, 2015, following controversial remarks he made on The Herd the previous day. Cowherd was roommates with Coach Jim McElwain (University of Florida head coach) at Eastern Washington.
Cowherd grew up in Grayland, Washington. He began his career as the play-by-play voice for the San Diego Padres Double-A affiliate Las Vegas Stars. He eventually became a sports director at KVBC in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he was named Nevada's Sportscaster of the Year five times.
He served as weekend sports anchor at WTVT in Tampa, Florida. In 1996, he moved to Portland, Oregon, where he worked as a sports anchorman for KGW-TV. In 2001, The Herd moved from an afternoon time slot on all-sports radio KFXX to the morning drive time.
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