Colin Cowherd

Colin Murray Cowherd (born January 6, 1964) is an American sports media personality.

He graduated from Ocosta High School in Westport in 1982.

In high school, Cowherd played quarterback for the football team and was an All-Far West Conference guard for the basketball team.

Cowherd was roommates with football player and coach Jim McElwain at Eastern Washington University.

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.

He served as weekend sports anchor at WTVT in Tampa, Florida from 1993 to 1995.

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.

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.

In 2003, Cowherd was selected to replace Tony Kornheiser for the late-morning time slot (10 AM – 1 PM ET) on ESPN Radio.

Cowherd's show, The Herd with Colin Cowherd, is a syndicated talk radio show broadcast on Fox Sports Radio.

From 2004 to 2015, it was transmitted to ESPN Radio affiliates throughout the United States and online at ESPNRadio.com.

In November 2005, ESPN apologized following a number of complaints about comments made by Cowherd on the death of professional wrestler Eddie Guerrero on the November 13, 2005 edition of The Herd.

Cowherd had reportedly commented "who cares that he died" and described his death as "not newsworthy" before speculating on the cause of death.

He was later reprimanded by ESPN Radio general manager Bruce Gilbert over his remarks.

On the April 5, 2007, edition of The Herd, Cowherd directed his listeners to "blow up" the sports blog The Big Lead by simultaneously visiting its home page.

The site was unable to handle the influx in traffic, and the site was knocked offline for approximately 96 hours.

ESPN's new Ombudsman, LeAnne Schreiber, wrote an article sharing her negative opinion of Cowherd's actions.

Schreiber contacted Traug Keller, a senior vice president 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.

In 2008, the Herd added a simulcast on ESPNU.

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.

Demographics and regional preferences are frequent topics of his program.

The majority of his conversations primarily center around the National Football League (NFL), college football, and the National Basketball Association (NBA).

His father, Charles, was an optometrist and his British-born mother Patricia (d. 2014) was a housewife who emigrated to the United States at age 14.

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.

Cowherd described himself as a loner during his childhood, spending much time sitting on his roof, listening to baseball games on the radio.

Cowherd again drew criticism in April 2014 with remarks on the death of The Ultimate Warrior.

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.

Cowherd was born in Aberdeen, Washington.

In March 2018, Cowherd - who had previously referred to professional wrestling fans as "lonely, pathetic Booger Eaters" - attended the taping of an episode of WWE SmackDown.