Bob Costas: Pregame studio shows should have 4 people, at most
"And maybe one of the four isn't really on the desk, but is just over here doing what he or she does."
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Bob Costas returns to NBC with signature open for NBA doubleheader
The legendary broadcaster left the network in 2018.
Bob Costas: Michael Jordan’s ‘mere presence’ is a reason to watch NBA on NBC
"His mere presence is a reason to stop and then put down the remote"
Bob Costas dubs Noah Eagle ‘most impressive young broadcaster’ since Joe Buck
"He sounds as good as some Hall of Fame broadcaster at age 45 or 50"
Alex Faust named Bob Costas’ successor for TNT Sports’s MLB playoffs coverage
The 36-year-old announcer will team with Ron Darling for TNT Sports' divisional round coverage after Costas retired following 44 years of calling baseball.
Marquee Sports Network pays tribute to Ryne Sandberg on Cubs postgame show
"Sandberg was a heck of a good guy."
Bob Costas: ‘Anyone who says that politics has no place in sports has to be abysmally unaware of the history here’
On Meet The Press, Bob Costas covered the history of sports' intersections with politics.
Bob Costas takes aim at Trump: ‘The free press is under attack’
"These are ongoing assaults on the basic idea of a free press."
Bob Costas: Pirates ‘have no excuse’ for being this bad for this long
"I don't want to be harsh, but what's the Pirates' excuse?"
Bob Costas explains why he roots for his broadcasting successors
"I know there are some people in the business...who root not only for their own success, but they resent the success of others. I've never had a thimble's worth of that feeling ever."
Bob Costas: Bob Uecker was ‘one of a kind, and even that understates it’
"The players considered him one of them, and then almost incidentally, the team's radio announcer."
Bob Costas warns Golden At-Bat could turn baseball into gimmick
"Does it turn the game into kind of a video game and kind of gimmicky? Yeah, I think so."
MLB Network launches ‘MLB’s Traveling Spaceship Show’
The show features a supercomputer voiced by Hall of Fame broadcaster Bob Costas.
Bob Costas addresses retirement: ‘I couldn’t consistently reach my past standard’
"I have too much regard for the game, for the craft, and for whatever my own standard has been to hit beneath my lifetime batting average."
‘Pardon the Interruption’ hosts defend Bob Costas against ‘stupid’ critics
Unclear whether Wilbon and Costas actually understand what the criticism actually was of Costas, who appeared to retire on his own terms.
Bob Costas fires back at notion he’s humorless: ‘You don’t know jack sh*t’
"Disrespectful is less damning than ignorant."
Bob Costas faults ‘spineless sycophants’ catering to Donald Trump for close election
"A center-right candidate, an honest, decent, center-right candidate…easily defeats Kamala Harris."
Bob Costas retires from calling MLB games
Joe Buck: Social media vitriol ‘wore me out’
"It affected my calls."
Nick Wright torches youth of America for not appreciating Al Michaels and Bob Costas
"It’s Costas and Michaels YOU SPOILED BRATS!"
Bob Costas invokes Aaron Boone in ‘Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon’ during 9th inning of elimination game
"You won't even need six moves to connect Aaron Boone to almost anybody."
Chris Russo blasted Bob Costas, TBS ‘George Brett documentary’ broadcast of Yankees-Royals Game 3
"I watched a George Brett documentary last night and a baseball game broke out!"
Michael Kay offers impassioned defense of ‘broadcasting god’ Bob Costas
"To see these young people on social media eviscerating a broadcasting god... You're out of your minds!"
Hot mic captures Bob Costas awkwardly talking about CNN ad read
Costas was caught on a hot mic expressing reservations about reading a CNN promo during a live broadcast.
TBS broadcast of Royals-Yankees was obsessed with George Brett
"Take a shot every time George Brett is mentioned."
