A time later, Coughlin's family moved again to suburban Lakewood, Ohio, where he attended St. Edward High School, graduating in 1956.
[1] Soon after leaving military service, Coughlin landed his first full-time job in the newspaper business when he became a sports writer for the Cleveland Plain Dealer in 1964.
[5] In 1983, Coughlin switched to television reporting, becoming a sports reporter/fill-in anchor for WJKW (now WJW) TV 8 in Cleveland, where he remained.
[7] In later years, Coughlin went into semi-retirement, though he still worked part-time at WJW as a co-host of Friday Night Touchdown during high school football season.
[8][9] Coughlin wrote four books featuring anecdotes from his career covering the Cleveland sports scene: Pass the Nuts (2011), Crazy, With The Papers to Prove It (2012), Let's Have Another (2015) and Just One More Story (2018).