Colin Cowherd

Colin Murray Cowherd (born January 6, 1964) is the host of The Herd with Colin Cowherd on ESPN Radio and ESPNU. He is also a former co-host of the show SportsNation on ESPN2 with Michelle Beadle and later Charissa Thompson. --- Cowherd grew up in Grayland, Washington and attended Eastern Washington University. He began his career as the play-by-play voice for the Pacific Coast League's Las Vegas Stars. He eventually became a 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 weekend sports anchor at WTVT-TV in Tampa, Florida. He moved to Portland, Oregon, in 1996, where he spent nearly two years teaching trigonometry at the local high school. He also 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.