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Awful Announcing Podcast: Bob Costas on Donald Trump, Olympics, Tom Brady, and more
Bob Costas wants more of a journalistic approach in sports TV: ‘There are places for it.’
Bob Costas urges a return to in-depth sports journalism.
Richard Lewis once made Bob Costas laugh so hard, NBC tried to keep interview from airing
"I went crazy and bugged the network so much they thankfully caved."
Bob Costas calls Donald Trump ‘bubbling cauldron of loathsome traits’
"He's only become more disgraceful since 2016 and since 2020. He is a bubbling cauldron of loathsome traits."
Bob Costas on transgender athletes: ‘Let’s inject some common sense here’
"It's not transphobic to say 'Let's inject some common sense here.'"
Bob Costas: President Biden must drop candidacy or ‘be shown the door’
“If Biden’s hubris is such that he doesn’t understand the best interests of his party and … his country, then he has to be shown the door.”
Bob Costas: Vladimir Putin turned down NBC interview for Sochi Olympics
"Putin turned that down flatly."
Bob Costas to be featured on MLBN’s ‘The Sounds of Baseball’
"Bob Costas’ name and voice are synonymous with baseball. If you love the game, you will love this special."
Bob Costas believes Fox News would crown Taylor Swift if she wore a MAGA hat
"I can guarantee you, that all this news at Fox News would not be happening if she was wearing a MAGA hat. They would love it."
Kevin Harlan starstruck in the presence of Bob Costas and Al Michaels: ‘That’s the Mount Rushmore.’
"Can you believe I'm talking to Bob Costas?"
Bob Costas sees Isiah Kiner-Falefa’s contract as a sign of MLB’s financial strength
"If Isiah Kiner-Falefa, no disrespect intended, was released tomorrow, no one outside his own family would be aware of it."
Bob Costas: Fox should use Tom Brady as a studio analyst
"It’s just an easier fit in the studio."
Bob Costas on why Shohei Ohtani is next Michael Jordan
"Ohtani at this point is about as close to what Michael Jordan was ..."
Bob Costas explains why he wouldn’t have been a good MLB commissioner
"I was a commentator about baseball ... and if people appreciated that, well then that was my contribution."
Los Angeles Times posts poorly timed tweet about potential Dodgers comeback after they were already eliminated
"Sorry to get your hopes up!"
Bob Costas fittingly describes ‘burly’ Dodgers pitcher Lance Lynn
"To say that Lance Lynn is a big guy understates it."
Bob Costas brought up Steve Bartman and A’s potential move to Vegas during Dodgers-D-Backs playoff game
"In less than 90 seconds, Costas brought up a painful memory for the Cubs and a painful reality for the A's, two teams that were not playing in this game."
Bob Costas reportedly saved a stranger’s life with the Heimlich maneuver
“He really feels he did what just about anyone else would do in a similar situation.”
Bob Costas: ‘The NFL’s overtime rule…remains an idiocy’
"It’s gonna bite them in the Super Bowl eventually."
Bob Costas says he regrets call on final out of 1995 World Series: ‘You don’t get do-overs on live TV’
"You have ideas in your head. But you just say whatever occurs to you."
Anish Shroff: ‘The reason I went to Syracuse was Bob Costas’
"Costas made me smarter every time I watched one of his events."
Bob Costas details his experience on ‘Pootie Tang’ with Rich Eisen
"The title was a little uh interesting."
Bob Costas blasts aggregation: ‘All the nuance and context and tone is lost.’
"People are getting information from so many different sources, and the majority of those sources no longer adhere to the basic principles that are used to govern newspapers and broadcasters, for the most part."
Bob Costas is not a fan of NBA teams shooting so many threes
The legendary sports broadcaster say the 3-point revolution is ruining the game's entertainment value.