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Bob CostasRobert Quinlan Costas (born March 22, 1952 in Queens, New York) is an American sportscaster, on the air for the NBC network since the early 1980s. Costas is known for his knowledge of sports and his quick wit. He has been an in-studio host of National Football League coverage and play-by-play man for the NBA and for Major League Baseball. Costas has teamed with Isiah Thomas & Doug Collins for basketball telecasts and Tony Kubek (from 1983-1989), Joe Morgan & Bob Uecker (from 1994-2000) for baseball telecasts. Costas hosted Later with Bob Costas on NBC, 1988-1994, and syndicated radio program Costas Coast to Coast, 1986-1996. He is a devoted baseball fan (he's been suggested as a potential commissioner) and wrote the best-selling Fair Ball: A Fan's Case for Baseball in 2000. Costas has frontlined many Olympics broadcasts for NBC. They include the Olympics in Seoul in 1988, Barcelona in 1992, Atlanta in 1996, Sydney in 2000, Salt Lake City in 2002, and Athens in 2004. A personal influence on Costas has been legendary ABC sports broadcaster Jim McKay, who hosted many Olympics for ABC from the sixites to eighties. In 2001, Costas was hired by HBO to host a 12 week series called On the Record With Bob Costas. On the Record.. is similar to the format of the old Later program as they both concentrate on in-depth celebrity interviews. In 2002, Costas began a stint as co-host of HBO's long running series Inside the NFL. Costas earned his bachelor's degree in 1974 from Syracuse University. Prior to joining NBC in 1980, he was a play-by-play announcer for the Spirits of St. Louis of the American Basketball Association, and was briefly employed by the CBS network. Trivia - Costas once jokingly promised that if Kirby Puckett was batting over .350 by the time his child was born he would name his kid Kirby. True to his word, since Kirby was hitting better than .350, Bob gave his son, Keith Costas, whose first name comes from Bob's wife's brother, the middle name Kirby.
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