(2008) Cohn-Head A No-Holds-Barred Account of Breaking Into the Boys' Club. By Linda Cohn (ISBN: 9781599211138)

Book Description: The Lyons Press, Guildord, Connecticut, U.S.A., 2008. First Edition Thus, number line on copyright page reads 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Black Cloth Hard Cover Boards and Spine with Silver Text. This is a First Edition remainder book which is new and never used. Book has Yellow felt pen remainder mark on the bottom edge of the pages. 245 pages with B&W photos, 6.25" x 9.25" tall, .75" thick. New copy - Never read - Not price clipped. Beautiful copy of book and dust jacket. COLLECTOR'S COPY.

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Synopsis: The real challenge is when a baseball player comes up to you to do an interview and then drops his towel just as you’re about to ask your first question. I know it’s difficult for you guys out there to understand, just because it may be a fantasy of yours for a woman to come up to you in a locker room somewhere and drop her towel. But the opposite does not hold true. It really doesn’t. In fact, it’s a little creepy.” One of America’s most successful female anchors lays bare her hard-fought rise to the top of the sportscasting boys’ club and her life inside the ESPN empire. She talks candidly about her own successes and missteps, and reveals her humorous, rewarding, and frightening interviews with sports personalities. Growing up in a dysfunctional family, Linda Cohn became a diehard sports fan and a goalie on her high school (boys’) hockey team—setting the stage for college hockey stardom, when she was affectionately known as “Cohn-Head” by her teammates. She got her first break in sportscasting by covering a team she hated. She discusses the sexual tension all too present both in the workplace and the locker room, and her close encounters with the likes of Michael Jordan, Matthew McConaughey, and Jay-Z.
Written with verve, Cohn-Head is a riveting read—a must for sports fans of both sexes, as well as anyone who seeks insight into how one woman made a man’s world her own.

Review: "After reading her book I now know things about Linda Cohn I couldn't even have suspected from roughly 1,000 hours of SportsCenters." --Bob Costas

About The Author: Linda Cohn (born November 10, 1959) is an American sportscaster. She regularly anchors ESPN's SportsCenter.

Early life and education: As a teenager, Cohn, a New Yorker, demonstrated talent at ice hockey, making her high school's boys team. She is also an avid New York Giants, New York Mets, New York Knicks and New York Rangers fan.

After graduating from Newfield High School, based in Selden on Long Island, Cohn attended SUNY at Oswego, graduating with a bachelors degree in arts and communications in 1981. She was also the goalie for the women's ice hockey team at Oswego and was inducted to the Oswego State athletics hall of fame in 2006.

Career:

Early years: In 1981, Cohn debuted as a sports anchor for the Patchogue, New York-based radio station WALK-AM (also WALK-FM). After leaving that station in 1984, she worked as a sports anchor for four other New York area radio stations until 1987. The most notable stop was a brief stint as an update person at WFAN, New York.

1987–1991: In 1987, Cohn made sportscasting history by becoming the first full-time U.S. female sports anchor on a national radio network when she was hired by ABC. She anchored WABC TalkRadio from 1987–89. In 1988, Cohn got her first television break, after being hired by what was at the time one of ESPN's top competitors, SportsChannel America. In 1989, she hosted a call-in radio sports show back home in New York.

Cohn was a reporter at the SportsChannel America Network before being hired by KIRO-TV in Seattle, Washington to work as a sports anchor there.

ESPN: Cohn returned to the East Coast in 1992, when she was hired by ESPN to work on SportsCenter, and has since become a familiar face among SportsCenter viewers. She has also been featured in many of the show's comical This is SportsCenter commercials.

In 2005, Cohn signed a contract extension with ESPN, which added play-by-play for WNBA telecasts to her duties.

On June 20, 2008, ESPN announced that Cohn would be a regular anchor for the new morning block of SportsCenter, which launched on August 11. She would have been the co-anchor, alongside Steve Berthiaume, of the first three hours of the block, from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. ET on weekdays. Several weeks later, though, ESPN announced that the new SportsCenter morning block would be scaled back from nine to six hours.

Cohn continues to regularly anchor SportsCenter, which she has been doing since 1992.

Author: In 2008, Cohn authored her own memoir, titled Cohn-Head: A No-Holds-Barred Account of Breaking Into the Boys' Club. In her book, Cohn recounts her passion for sports and her experiences working on ESPN's popular sports show SportsCenter. It is a tell-all about her rise to the top of a male-dominated sportscasting world.

Personal: Cohn was married to Stew Kaufman, whom she met while attending Oswego. They have two children. Among the things Cohn writes about in her book is the recent breakup of her marriage. Cohn's subsequent relationship is with professional hockey goalie coach Matt Voity, 34.