with heart and kidney disease and Parkinson's. Death Cosell died at the Hospital for Joint Diseases in Manhattan on April 23, 1995, of a cardiac embolism at the age of 77. He is buried at Westhampton Cemetery, Westhampton, New York. Legacy Cosell was placed as number one on David J. Halberstam's list of "Top 50 All Time Network Television Sports Announcers" on Yahoo! Sports in January 2009. The sports complex at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem was named for Cosell. In 2010, Cosell was posthumously inducted into the Observer's Category in the International Boxing Hall of Fame. In the 1985 film Better Off Dead, one of the two Asian-American teenage brothers who regularly challenged John Cusack's character to a street race is said to have learned English from listening to Cosell. The band Ben Folds Five have a song titled "Boxing" from 1995, which was written as a fictional monologue from Muhammad Ali to Cosell. In Michael Mann's 2001 film Ali, Cosell is played by Jon Voight, who earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance. In the 2002 television film Monday Night Mayhem, Cosell was played by John Turturro. Cosell's daughter, Hilary Cosell, was a producer of NBC SportsWorld, and was one of the first women sports producers. She was also the senior producer of her father's show, Speaking of Everything with Howard Cosell, an assistant producer of ABC News 20/20, and received four Emmy Award nominations. Cosell's nephew Greg Cosell is a senior producer at NFL Films. Cosell's grandson Colin Cosell was named public address announcer (along with Marysol Castro) at Citi Field, home of the New York Mets, in 2018. Colin Cosell intended to honor his grandfather by enunciating Mets' third baseman Todd Frazier's last name the same way Cosell did with Joe Frazier's name in his famous "Down Goes Frazier!" call. Film appearances References Further reading Bloom, John. (2010). There You Have It: The Life, Legacy, and Legend of Howard Cosell. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press. . Cosell, Howard. (1973). Cosell. Chicago: Playboy Press. . Cosell, Howard. (1974). Like It Is. Chicago: Playboy Press. . Cosell, Howard, with Peter Bonventre. (1985). I Never Played the Game. New York: William Morrow & Co. . Cosell, Howard, with Shelby Whitfield. (1991). What's Wrong with Sports. New York: Simon & Schuster. . Gunther, Mark, and Bill Carter. (1988). Monday Night Mayhem: The Inside Story of ABC's Monday Night