Most Recent Role: Primetime Host on 2008 Summer Olympic Games
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Queens, New York (USA)
Birthday: 3-22-1952
Birth Name: Robert Quinlan Costas
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Queens, New York (USA)
Birthday: 3-22-1952
Birth Name: Robert Quinlan Costas
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Bob Costas is an American sportscaster and sports historian. Currently working for NBC, he is famous for covering the Olympics, MLB, NFL, and NBA, along with hosting his own show.
Most Recent Appearance
Day 13
Thursday 21 August 2008 on NBC
On Day 13 of the 2008 Summer Olympics, finals will be held in beach volleyball, cycling, diving, equestrian events, field hockey, modern pentathlon, sailing, soccer, softball, swimming, Taekwondo, track and field, water polo, and wrestling.
News Headlines
- external: Costas' New Olympic Fireplace Also a Fake 2006-02-15
- external: The Tony Danza Show 2005-12-05
- external: The Tony Danza Show 2005-11-29
- external: Late Night with Conan O'Brien 2005-10-03
- external: Costas Runs Out Clock 2005-09-27
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While in the 5th grade, Bob Costas had a pencil case that listed all the Presidents names. As he told Conan O'Brian on a 1998 episode of Late Night, whenever he was bored in the back of the classroon he would reread the names and eventually memorized them. When O'Brien challanged him to recite them all in 20 seconds, Costas zipped through Washington through Kennedy, but then slowed down cosiderably for Johnson through Clinton, forgetting Carter altogether.
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Bob Costas has hosted the Olympics in Barcelona in 1992, Atlanta in 1996, Sydney in 2000, Salt Lake City in 2002, Athens in 2004, and Turin in 2006.
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Bob Costas was a play-by-play man for the NBA and for Major League Baseball during his early days with NBC.
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Bob Costas was NBC's studio host for NFL games.
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Bob Costas has won multiple National Sportcaster of the Year awards from the National Sportcaster and Sportswriter Association.
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Bob Costas: Were there better baseball players than Jackie Robinson? Yes. Were there more important baseball players than Jackie Robinson? Who?
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Bob Costas: Baseball isn't brain surgery. I just make sure I'm not frivolous at the expense of the game.
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Bob Costas: I loved Seaver, but you have to put Clemens ahead of him. He's on a short list of being one of the greatest of all time. In my lifetime, no one was better than Koufax at his best. I would pick Sandy for one game. But Clemens is ahead of Gibson and Seaver at their best.
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Bob Costas: What's happened is that teams have latched onto the notion that Spring Training can be a big revenue producer.
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Bob Costas: An understanding that it is now indisputable that an entire era in baseball was out of whack, distorted, to some extent inauthentic, and has be viewed almost separate from the rest of baseball history. And that, although baseball is, in fairness, making a belated but now concerted effort to deal with the problem . . . all you can do is try to diminish the use of performance-enhancing drugs, try to change the culture surrounding the sport so that people voluntarily decide they are not going to do it.
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Other Appearances
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2006 Winter Olympics
Host |
2008 Summer Olympic Games
Host |
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Costas Now
Host |
Football Night in America
Co-Host |
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Inside The NFL
Co-Host |
Later with Bob Costas
Host |
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ESPN25: Who's #1?
Interviewee |
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Guest |
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Late Night With David Letterman
Guest |
SportsCentury
Interviewee |
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The New Hollywood Squares
Himself |
The Today Show
Correspondent |
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Arli$$
The Price of their Toys Himself |
Arli$$
The Cult of Celebrity Himself |
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Arli$$
A Man of Our Times Himself |
Arli$$
Taking One for the Team Himself |
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Baby Blues
The Bitterman Hillbillies Himself (voice) |
Cathedrals of the Game
Busch Stadium Interviewee |
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2006 Winter OlympicsThe 2006 Winter Olympics were held in Turin (Torino), Italy, and the surrounding Alpine ski resorts west of the city. The region hosted 2,500 athletes, 650 referees and judges, 2,500 coaches and... more
2008 Summer Olympic GamesBeginning on August 8, 2008, the Summer Olympics commence in Beijing, China. The Games of the XXIX Olympiad are an incredible testament to the human spirit, and will serve to celebrate the innate... more Costas Now
Popular sports news anchor Bob Costas is launching this new sports talk show on HBO. The show will air monthly and will include the latest news in sports as well as one-on-one interviews with... more Football Night in America
If simply watching a great game of football isn't enough for you, tune in to this awesome pre-game studio show! Football Night in America began in the NFL 2006-2007 season. Each Sunday on NBC... more Inside The NFL
Inside the NFL is one of the longest running, Emmy award winning sports shows on cable television today. Each episode has some of the most exciting player profiles, interviews and footage as well... more Later with Bob Costas
In his first television venture beyond the sports world, Bob Costas interviews celebrities, sports figures, politicians and other notables in a one-on-one format. more
