Editing Myron Cope (section)

== Education and career ==
[[File:MyronCopePitt.jpg|thumb|left|170px|Cope as a student at the University of Pittsburgh in 1950]]
Born in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]], to [[Litvaks|Jewish parents of Lithuanian ancestry]], Cope graduated from [[Taylor Allderdice High School]] in 1947 and was inducted into their [[alumni]] hall of fame in 2009.<ref>{{cite news|last=Hecht|first=Steve|title=Comedian Marty Allen part of Allderdice's first hall class|url=http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/neighborhoods-east/comedian-marty-allen-part-of-allderdices-first-hall-class-355087/|access-date=July 18, 2012|newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|date=August 27, 2009}}</ref><ref name=pitt>{{cite news |first=Mark |last=Collins |title= Everything is Cope-aesthetic|url= http://www.univ-relations.pitt.edu/pittmag/sep96/copeh.html|work= Pitt Magazine |publisher= [[University of Pittsburgh]]|date= September 1996|access-date=2006-11-25 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061230144250/http://www.univ-relations.pitt.edu/pittmag/sep96/copeh.html |archive-date = December 30, 2006|url-status=dead}}</ref> He also graduated from the [[University of Pittsburgh]].<ref name=kdkatowelday>{{cite news| url=http://kdka.com/local/Myron.Cope.honor.2.664822.html| title=Terrible Towel Day Honors Cope| agency=[[Associated Press]]| publisher=[[KDKA-TV]]| date=2008-02-29| access-date=2008-03-20| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080402095715/http://kdka.com/local/Myron.Cope.honor.2.664822.html| archive-date=2008-04-02}}</ref> 

Cope was originally a journalist before becoming a broadcaster. His first job as a journalist was in [[Erie, Pennsylvania]], with the ''[[Erie Times-News|Daily Times]]'',<ref name=erietimes>{{cite web | url =http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008120336470| title =Myron Cope, ex-Steelers announcer, dead at 79| agency=[[Associated Press]]| publisher=[[Erie Times-News]]| access-date = 2008-03-20}}</ref> and by the summer of 1951, he was working for the ''[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]''.<ref name= "doubleyoi"/> Cope then became a freelance journalist, most notably for ''[[Sports Illustrated]]'',<ref name="HOF Radio"/> the ''[[Saturday Evening Post]]'',<ref name=erietimes/> and the ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette''.<ref name=pgremembering/> In 1963, Cope received the E.P. Dutton Prize for "Best Magazine Sportswriting in the Nation", for a portrayal of [[Muhammad Ali|Cassius Clay]].<ref name=pgobituary>{{cite news | url =http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08058/860750-13.stm| author=Gene Collier| author-link=Gene Collier| work=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]| title =Obituary: Myron Cope's career spanned newspapers, magazines, radio and TV| date=2008-02-27| access-date = 2008-03-20}}</ref> Cope spent the 1983 college football season as a color analyst for the [[Pittsburgh Panthers]].<ref name=kdkatowelday/> In 1987, he was named by the [[Hearst Corporation]] as a noted literary achiever, along with [[Mark Twain]], [[Jack London]], [[Frederic Remington]], [[Walter Winchell]], and [[Sidney Sheldon]].<ref name=pgobituary/> At its 50th anniversary, ''Sports Illustrated'' selected Cope's profile of [[Howard Cosell]] as one of the 50 best written works ever published in the magazine.<ref name=pgremembering/>