ABC Sports on-air talent wasn’t top of mind in making this big-screen drama about the 1972 Munich Olympics. That was especially true of Cosell.

Cosell described the third fight between Ali and Joe Frazier in 1975 as if it were “like an aria from an opera,” Crystal recalled. He was duly impressed. “Go to commercial,” Crystal remembered. “I say ...

Arledge quotes Cosell as shouting. “Put me on, Arledge. I’m the only one who can tell it ... other ABC announcers. “Howard felt that he was built for moments like that,” Michaels ...