Bob Costas Biography
Bob Costas is an American sportscaster best known for his long tenure with NBC Sports, which lasted from 1980 to 2019. He has 28 Emmy awards for his work and served as the prime-time host of 12 Olympic Games between 1992 and 2016. He works for MLB Network as a play-by-play announcer and once hosted an interview show called Studio 42 with Bob Costas.
How old is Bob Costas? – Age
He is 69 years old as of 22 March 2021. He was born in 1952 in Queens, New York, United States. His real names is Robert Quinlan Costas.
Bob Costas Family – Education
He is the son of Jayne (Quinlan), who is of Irish descent, and John George Costas, who is of Greek descent. His father’s ancestors can be traced back to Greece’s Aegean Sea island of Kalymnos. Costas revealed in Ken Burns’ Baseball that he had a strained relationship with his father. Costas attended Syracuse University after graduating from Commack High School South. In 1974, he earned a communications degree from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.
Is Bob Costas still Married? – Wife
Costas has been married twice. He was married to Carole “Randy” Randall Krummenacher from 1983 to 2001. They had two children, Keith, born in 1986, and Taylor born in 1989. Costas married his second wife, Jill Sutton, on March 12, 2004. Costas and his wife now primarily reside in New York. Keith has two Sports Emmys for his work as an associate producer on MLB Network’s MLB Tonight, and Taylor has two for her work on NBC’s coverage of the 2012 Summer Olympics.
What disease does Bob Costas have? – pink eye?
Costas was sidelined for six days in Sochi, Russia, in 2014 due to an eye infection. He said his favorite Olympic memory was in Atlanta in 1996, when Muhammad Ali, despite having Parkinson’s disease, was a surprise torchbearer who lit the stadium flame. Later, NBC denied that the Great Pink Eye of 2014 was caused by botched Botox injections. Costas told USA Today in 2016 that it took him months to fully recover.
Bob Costas Salary
He earns an annual salary of $7 Million.
Bob Costas Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $50 Million.
Bob Costas HBO
Costas was hired by HBO in 2001 to host the 12-week series On the Record with Bob Costas. The format of On the Record with Bob Costas was similar to that of the old Later program in that both focused on in-depth interviews. On the Record with Bob Costas was relaunched in 2005 as Costas Now, a monthly issue-oriented sports program with a town hall-style format.
Costas began his tenure as co-host of HBO’s long-running series Inside the NFL in 2002. Costas continued to host Inside the NFL until the end of the 2007 NFL season. He co-hosted the show with Cris Collinsworth, as well as Dan Marino and Cris Carter, two former NFL greats.During the NFL season, the show aired every week. Costas left HBO in February 2009 to join MLB Network. Costas announced his return to HBO on April 23, 2021, to host a quarterly interview show called Back on the Record.
Bob Costas CNN
Costas will join CNN as a contributor in July 2020, it was announced. Costas will comment “on a wide range of sports-related issues as the industry adapts to new challenges posed by the coronavirus and the frequent intersection of sports with larger societal issues,” according to CNN.
Bob Costas MLB
Costas hosted the premiere episode of All Time Games, a presentation of the recently discovered kinescope of Game 5 of the 1956 World Series, when the channel debuted on January 1, 2009. During the episode, he moderated a discussion with Don Larsen, who pitched MLB’s only postseason perfect game at the time, and Yogi Berra, who caught the game.
Costas began working for the network full-time on February 3, 2009. He hosts MLB Network Studio 42 with Bob Costas, as well as special programming and provides play-by-play for select live baseball game telecasts. Costas called Game 1 of the American League Division Series between the Boston Red Sox and the Houston Astros on MSN in 2017. On MLB Network in 2017, Costas called Game 1 of the American League Division Series between the Boston Red Sox and the Houston Astros. The Astros went on to win the game 8–2. Unfortunately, Costas and his color commentator Jim Kaat were chastised for their “banter about minutia” and play misidentification. Costas also became an internet meme after using the phrase “sacks were juiced” to describe how the bases were loaded.