Word: sportsbeat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...infuriating. But by directing backhanded slaps at everybody from Gifford and Meredith to CBS color commentator and football God John Madden, Cosell undermines his own credibility. He is not, as he would have it, the only redeeming person in the entire sports world. And while his Sportsbeat show is critically acclaimed, it is not popularly accepted. Cosell has failed to realize that Americans want their sports on the playing field and their sports journalism on the 7 o'clock news...
...unclear what role Peter Bonventre played in helping Cosell write I Never Played the Game. Bonventre, now a producer on Cosell's Sportsbeat has been a writer and editor at the New York Times and Newsweek magazine, but he certainly hasn't managed to tame Cosell's over-exuberant portrayal of himself...
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