Perfect match. Cowherd is an honors graduate of the Al Michaels School of Conflating Sports with Right-Wing Politics.

I actually don't think he's right wing as KamaAina suggested, but he bloviates. Takes him too long to make a point and then hammers it into submission repeating it. Even does it when he's got guests, which cuts into their air time.

Not the biggest fan.

Even at the end of the Clunker Interview with Harbough, he went on too long about it.

If he was, it would be pretty strange that for a RW to love Oregon though the first positive he has to say about the state is they're mostly white. It was the borderline racist comments like John Wall or Sean Taylor when he was a murder victim in a home robbery.

His Love for the "Mostly White" State of Oregon

Now, we all have our favorite state. Some of us love New York because it’s home to the city that never sleeps, while others like Florida because it’s the Sunshine State. What state does Cowherd love?

Oregon. He really really loves Oregon.

And not because of its many micro-breweries or farm-to-table restaurants, but instead because it’s mostly white people. Yep.

Back in March on his radio show, The Herd, a producer suggested that Oregon was a 14-seed in a hypothetical March Madness tournament for U.S. states, and asked an irate Cowherd what was so great about it. Cowherd ranted: “How about wonderful people, mostly white, that drink lots of beer and wine. Don’t screw with Oregon. First of all, great city, Portland, as I’ve told half this company, most underrated city in America. It’s the French Riviera from Fourth of July to October. Perfect weather. Great people. NBA team. Seahawks up the road. Unbelievable wine. The coast. Oregon’s like a four-seed. Oregon’s really nice.”

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His Borderline Racist Hatred For John Wall

It’s known that a lot of NBA players like to keep things loose before games, it helps them from being too locked in. So when Colin Cowherd decided to absolutely go in on John Wall after Wall decided to do the Dougie before his first home game as a rookie, it came off as condescending and gratuitous.

Cowherd, being the eloquent pundit that he is, compared Wall's dance before a game to robbing a bank. In addition to comparing him to thieves, Cowherd also harped on Wall’s near triple-double the night before (29-13-9) because the rookie had eight turnovers, while also waxing poetic about Rajon Rondo’s 17-assist, no turnover performance. All of which was unfair because Wall was a rookie entering the league who had yet to play five games, whereas Rondo was a championship-winning starting point guard entering his fourth season.

He then continued his to demonstrate his skewed logic by going so far as to imply that Wall doesn’t have the adequate IQ to be a successful NBA point guard: “Point guard is like the quarterback. It's an IQ-judgment position," Cowherd said. "The great ones are not about themselves. They're about the others. Leadership is IQ, it's not skills."

(this is the one I was referring to)

His Deeply Disrespectful Take on the Late Sean Taylor

When former Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor was fatally shot by burglars during a home invasion back in 2007, the entire sports world was in mourning. The NFL Network aired Sean Taylor: A Football Life in his memory and reporters approached the story in an appropriate manner.

Though Taylor had a couple brushes with the law and fines for misconduct, he was remembered for his accomplishments on the field. At least, to everyone but Cowherd who deliberated on his radio show: "Sean Taylor, great player has a history of really really bad judgment—really, really bad judgment. Cops, assault, spitting, DUI. I’m supposed to believe his judgment got significantly better in two years, from horrible to fantastic? ‘But Colin he cleaned up his act.’ Well, yeah, just because you clean the rug doesn’t mean you got everything out. Sometimes you’ve got stains, stuff so deep it never, ever leaves...Just because somebody cleans the rugs doesn’t mean there aren’t stains. No matter what those commercials, OxiClean, tell you on cable TV, some stains you can’t get out. And if you have bad judgment for 23 years of your life, even if you clean it up, your judgment doesn’t get great over night."

Three years later, after the murder and crude remarks by Cowherd, he was quoted in James Andrew Miller's ESPN oral history, Those Guys Have All the Fun, and did not apologize for the comments that were borderline racist. Instead, he said:

“Now, with the Sean Taylor thing, my superior, Mo Davenport, an African American, listened to it and had no problem with it. A lot of it was turned into a racial issue. ‘Insensitive.’ And I would say it again. Sean Taylor came out of the University of Miami with a reputation. I really leaned on African American journalists—Stephen A. Smith, Michael Wilbon—who were critical of him. This is a guy who had an SUV riddled with bullets several years earlier. His best friend told him, ‘Stay out of Miami.’

One of the comments that bothered people — people said, ‘He turned his life around.’ And I came out and said, ‘Hey, a lot of times you clean the carpet, but you don’t get all the stains out.’ And people are like, ‘What does that mean?’ Well, just because you turn your life around doesn’t mean everybody else is going to accept your apology. I mean, Sean had made a lot of enemies in his life apparently.”

http://www.complex.com/sports/2015/07/colin-cowherd-espn/colin-cowherd-sean-taylor

This is more of a general reply to the topic than you or anyone specific, your post reminded me of some of Cowherd's standard offensiveness.

What a putz.

And from listening to him, he does seem like a moderate politically....He mixes in some commentary about non sports topics from time to time and he seems to admire Obama...He definitely is liberal on social issues.

"Colin Cowherd's comments over the past two days do not reflect the values of ESPN or our employees," ESPN said in a statement. "Colin will no longer appear on ESPN."

http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/13314040/colin-cowherd-no-longer-espn-air-comments-dominican-republic-players