| Bob Costas has been with NBC Sports since 1979. During this time he has covered every major sport, but is perhaps most identified with the Olympics and Baseball. He anchored NBC's primetime coverage of the last three summer Olympics -- Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996, and Sydney, Australia in the year 2000. He most recently hosted the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City. Bob's first Olympic experience came in Seoul, Korea in 1988, where he served as the late-night host. From 1983 through 1989, Bob teamed with Tony Kubek on NBC's baseball "Game of the Week" telecasts. He hosted the network's "NFL Live" pre-game show for nine years (1984-1992), stepping aside following Super Bowl XXVII. Costas has been involved in the coverage of six league championship series and five world series for NBC Sports. He has hosted six Super Bowls. In the past few years Costas returned to baseball, handling play-by-play for NBC's all star, playoff and world series telecasts. He teamed with Joe Morgan for these games. Costas' reputation within baseball is long standing, dating to his "game of the week" partnership with Tony Kubek. Hi frequent and passionate commentary about the game's history, appeal, and ongoing problems, has earned him the respect and admiration of millions of fans. His book, "Fair Ball, A Fan's Case for Baseball," earned excellent reveiws, remained on the New York Times best seller list for several weeks, and influenced the ongoing discussion concerning the game's direction. Bob was the play-by-play voice of the NBA on NBC from 1997 through the 1999-2000 season. For many years prior he had been the host of NBC's NBA coverage. He was also a contributing interviewer and essayist on NBC's NFL pre-game show, the program he previously hosted for nine years. In February 2001, HBO launched "On the Record" with Bob Costas, currently a weekly, hour-long program of issues, interviews and commentary. Bob is a frequent contributor to NBC News, as a reporter and interviewer on the Today Show and other network programs. |
| Costas has won fifteen Emmy Awards -- twelve for outstanding sports broadcaster or play-by-play (including the Barcelona, Atlanta, Sydney and Salt Lake City Olympics), two for writing, and one for his late night interview show, "Later... with Bob Costas." Uniquely, Bob has been nominated for Emmys in five different categories: play-by-play, hosting, writing, interviewing and journalism. Bob has been named "National Sportscaster of the Year" an unprecedented eight times by his peers. When he first won the NSSA award in 1985, he was thirty-three years old, the youngest announcer to be so honored. In 1988 Bob began to diversify beyond sports broadcasting. Her served as a substitute host for Bryant Gumbel on NBC's "Today Show," then went on to host his own late night program, "Later... with Bob Costas." This emmy award-winning show featured in-depth interviews exploring the lives of newsmakers, entertainers and personalities from varied backgrounds. Bob left "Later" in February, 1994 to concentrate on his new NBC duties. |
