Colin Cowherd Confirms New FOX Gig Includes Radio

Colin Cowherd

Colin Cowherd has confirmed his new home. The former ESPN personality is moving to Fox Sports in a four-year deal that includes Fox NFL Kickoff (which relocates from Fox Sports 1 to the flagship network in September).

Cowherd, 51, already has moved to Los Angeles, where his daily radio show and its FS1 simulcast will originate from the Fox lot, and he's expected to get his own FS1 nightly show next year.

Cowherd's early-September FS1 debut will include coverage of the Sept. 3 Utah-Michigan college football season opener, where he'll seek a do-over interview with new Wolverines coach Jim Harbaugh (their exchange on July 1 was famously awkward). That preceded his fractious final days at ESPN, when the network dropped him a week before his planned departure because of his July 23 remarks disparaging the intellect of Dominicans, who make up 10 percent of active MLB players.

Cowherd talks to The Hollywood Reporter about his exit from ESPN, a possible follow-up with Harbaugh and which baseball player he’d most like to have on his new show (hint: he’s from the Dominican Republic).