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Make him tick?

There was something wild about Prince, not only his outfits and hairdos and other out-of-the-box stylish effects but his willingness to sing about sexual taboos and hints at androgyny that seemed to some over-the-top. But as a writer in The Nation magazine put it, he was celebrating sex when the AIDS epidemic was making sex scary to everyone from President Reagan on down. He was non-dualistic about sex and sexuality and not afraid to link sex and spirituality. And do it loudly.

- Some Thoughts on the Passing of a Prince, by Mattew Fox, HuffingtonPost.com, April 23, 2016.

3. Colin Cowherd knows that there’s a decent chance you want to punch him now and then. Perhaps most of the time, in fact. Forgive him. He can’t help it. Deep down, this is just who he is.

“I wish everybody in the world liked me,” he said, “but a lot of them don’t. That’s because my whatever — my weakness, my vulnerability, my ego, whatever it is.”

But this isn’t really about whether you like or dislike Cowherd — that’s a discussion reserved for barstools and Internet comment sections — but rather something more innate. It’s about Cowherd’s complete self-awareness about all of it.

“Deep down, I want to be liked,” he insists, “but in the end, I’m willing to argue. Is it because I’m seeking attention? I don’t have the answers to that.”

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For three hours each day, Cowherd, 52, sits behind a microphone and talks, trying to dig his way to the roots of sports teams, characters and issues for his radio listeners. He likes to talk through things. Each week, he will visit a therapist and similarly dig for the roots of what make him tick as a father, a husband, a man.