Background and Early Life

Cowherd was born in the city of Aberdeen in the state of Washington. His father worked as an optician, and his mother, Patricia, a homemaker, was born in the United Kingdom and immigrated to the United States when he was 14 years old. He has a sister named Marlene, who is a year or two older than he is. Cowherd was born and reared in Grayland, Washington, a small fishing village about 130 miles south of Seattle that is known for its salmon fishing. Sadly, because of his father's drinking, his parents separated when he was pretty young. He and his sister were raised almost exclusively by their mother. Cowherd recalls himself as a loner during his childhood, spending a lot of time on his roof listening to baseball games broadcast on the radio. Ocosta High School in Westport, Connecticut, is where he received his diploma in 1982. He was an All-Far West Conference guard for the basketball team in high school and a quarterback for the football team in junior high and senior high. When Cowherd was at Eastern Washington, he shared a room with Jim McElwain, who is now the head coach of the Central Michigan University football team.

Cowherd began his broadcasting career as the play-by-play announcer for the Las Vegas Stars, the Triple-A affiliate of the San Diego Padres. He subsequently went on to work for KVBC in Las Vegas, where he was named Nevada Sportscaster of the Year on five different occasions. During his time at WTVT in Tampa, Florida, from 1993 to 1995, he worked as a weekend sports anchor. In 1996, he moved to Portland, Oregon, to work as a sports anchorman for KGW-TV, a local television station. In 2001, the Herd moved from an afternoon drive time position on all-sports radio station KFXX to a morning drive time slot.

Personal Life

His first wife was Kim Cowherd, and they were married for about 11 years. His personal life is almost a secret to the ears of the media.

The reason for this first divorce was not revealed publicly. All he said about the separation was that he gets to see his kids when he is free from his job. In 2007, he separated from his partner from an 11 years marriage. In 2010, he married Amy again with his closest friends and relatives in an elegant but straightforward wedding soon after they announced an engagement. He just indicated that the separation from Kim was amicable, and he refused to give a reason for it. He just told it through his radio program.

When he talked about his childhood, he said that his parents separated when he was young, and he was not very close to his sister. His father had married five times, and his mother was divorced three times, and he said that he is a child of divorces. He is now a father of six children (two of his own and four stepchildren).

People tend to bring up various rumors about why his marital life ended. Earlier, after his second marriage, he told the press that he would host a show about relationships, his ex-wife and Amy. He once commented that Kim is an independent woman. This is all that he had talked about in his personal life. He never mentioned how he met Kim and when he proposed to her or about their life together. His life with Amy Cowherd is also a secret to date.

Controversies

Maybe because of the numerous controversies he has about his working style, he wanted to keep his personal life out of the spotlight. He has been criticized for his every action and even for the divorce; though the exact reason remains a mystery, people tend to blame him that he is controversial to himself, and it is hard to lead a life with him. Apart from all these criticisms, many fans like how he takes the show. Both Kim and Amy did not comment on any of the above-said things, and neither were they exposed to the media. Maybe, all of them want to keep it that way.