Tim Cowlishaw

William Timothy Cowlishaw is a national sportswriter for "The Dallas Morning News", a regular panelist on the ESPN sports talk show "Around the Horn", and the lead reporter for the ESPN2 racing show "NASCAR Now".

Early life

Cowlishaw was raised in Dallas and grew up with the local sports teams. He began going to Dallas Cowboys games in 1963, Texas Rangers games in 1972, and Dallas Mavericks games in 1980. He graduated from Richardson High School in 1973 and in 1978 he graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in communications. He is from Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Career

Tim Cowlishaw has been with the Dallas Morning News since 1984 and has been a sports columnist at the newspaper since August 2, 1998, but before joining "The Dallas Morning News", he wrote for the "Corpus Christi Caller-Times", the "Daily Oklahoman" and the "San Jose Mercury News". While at "The Dallas Morning News", Cowlishaw covered SMU athletics, college basketball, major league baseball, the Dallas Cowboys, as well as the Dallas Stars before he became a columnist.

In 2002, Cowlishaw placed in the top five sports columnists of the nation among large circulation newspapers by the Associated Press Sports Editors.

"Around the Horn"

Cowlishaw can be seen regularly on ESPN's "Around the Horn", along with former fellow sportswriter from "The Dallas Morning News", Kevin Blackistone. Cowlishaw has been a panelist on the show since 2002 and host Tony Reali frequently introduces him at the beginning of episodes as "Texas Tim" Cowlishaw. Being known for his signature goatee, it is rare that he will sport a "clean" look, though it has happened, as was evidenced in a handful of episodes.

Cowlishaw's favorite sports are ice hockey and NASCAR, which are rarely discussed on the show. As such, it is the topic of humor directed toward Cowlishaw; as an example, hockey topics will often be discussed on a day when Cowlishaw is not on the show, prompting Reali to say "Cowlishaw not here today, let's talk hockey." When Cowlishaw wins the showdown and gets 30 seconds at the end of the show to expound on any subject, he will typically discuss neglected ice hockey or NASCAR topics. This is greeted with snores by the other panelists and with Reali pretending to read the newspaper while wondering aloud why he let Cowlishaw win the showdown in the first place. (In those cases when Cowlishaw is eliminated early, he will mention the topics as well.)

Cowlishaw also likes talking about the BCS (in support of the controversial system) whenever he can.

On Friday, January 26, 2007, Cowlishaw celebrated his 100th win on Around the Horn. He is one of five panelists to achieve that plateau (Woody Paige, Bill Plaschke, Jay Mariotti, J.A. Adande).

Cowlishaw is the first panelist to achieve a three-peat victory on Around the Horn.

On the August 8th, 2008 episode of Around the Horn, he reveled that his first name is actually William while Timothy is his middle name. Halfway through the episode, he referred to himself as "WTC" then when asked by the show's host Reali to explain the arrangement of the letters, he revealed that his first name is actually William.

"NASCAR Now"

Cowlishaw has been a reporter on NASCAR Now, since February 2007.

External links

* [http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/columnists/tcowlishaw/vitindex.html Cowlishaw's column at DallasNews.com]