| rdfs:comment | - Smart-assed sports talker from TV. Acts like he knows everything about sports, but probably knows nothing about the Saginaw Spirit. Needs an urgent ass-kicking. Image:MiniMaleSilhouette1.jpg Bob Costas is an article about a person who is not Stephen.Please add more details so America can better judge Bob Costas's worthiness.
- Bob Costas performed the voice of Bob Cutlass in Cars.
- He appears as himself in "Patriot Games", "Petergeist" and in "Turban Cowboy".
- Bob Costas is a sportscaster for NBC best known for his coverage of the Olympics. He appears as himself in the episode Boy Meets Curl.
- Costas has frontlined many Olympics broadcasts for NBC. They include the Olympics in Barcelona in 1992, Atlanta in 1996, Sydney in 2000, Salt Lake City in 2002, Athens in 2004, Torino in 2006, Beijing in 2008, and Vancouver in 2010. He discusses his work on the Olympic telecasts extensively in a book by Andrew Billings entitled Olympic Media: Inside the Biggest Show on Television. A personal influence on Costas has been legendary ABC Sports broadcaster Jim McKay, who hosted many Olympics for ABC from the 1960s to the 1980s.
- He was born in the Queens borough of New York, New York, as a son of Jayne Quinlan, of Irish descent, and John George Costas, an electrical engineer of Greek descent.The family roots are from the island of Chios in the Aegean Sea. In the documentary television series Baseball (1994), directed by Ken Burns, Costas indicated that he had a very poor relationship with his father, but did not go into specifics. He grew up in Commack, New York, graduating from Commack High School South.
- Bob Costas has frontlined many Olympics broadcasts for NBC Sports. They include the Olympics in Barcelona in 1992, Atlanta in 1996, Sydney in 2000, Salt Lake City in 2002, Athens in 2004, and Turin in 2006. A personal influence on Costas has been legendary ABC Sports broadcaster Jim McKay, who hosted many Olympics for ABC from the 1960s to the 1980s.
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| abstract | - Bob Costas has frontlined many Olympics broadcasts for NBC Sports. They include the Olympics in Barcelona in 1992, Atlanta in 1996, Sydney in 2000, Salt Lake City in 2002, Athens in 2004, and Turin in 2006. A personal influence on Costas has been legendary ABC Sports broadcaster Jim McKay, who hosted many Olympics for ABC from the 1960s to the 1980s. During the 1992 Barcelona and 1996 Atlanta Opening Ceremonies, Costas' remarks on the China (also known as ) File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Team's possible drug use caused an uproar among the American Chinese and International communities. Thousands of dollars were raised to purchase ads in the Washington Post and Sunday New York Times, featuring an image of the head of a statue of Apollo and read: "Costas Poisoned Olympic Spirit, Public Protests NBC". His lack of an apology, plus similar tones of commentaries during the 2000 Sydney Games Opening, 1 year before Beijing was awarded the 2008 Olympics, further cements him as a China basher in the minds of the Chinese community.
- Smart-assed sports talker from TV. Acts like he knows everything about sports, but probably knows nothing about the Saginaw Spirit. Needs an urgent ass-kicking. Image:MiniMaleSilhouette1.jpg Bob Costas is an article about a person who is not Stephen.Please add more details so America can better judge Bob Costas's worthiness.
- Bob Costas performed the voice of Bob Cutlass in Cars.
- He appears as himself in "Patriot Games", "Petergeist" and in "Turban Cowboy".
- Costas has frontlined many Olympics broadcasts for NBC. They include the Olympics in Barcelona in 1992, Atlanta in 1996, Sydney in 2000, Salt Lake City in 2002, Athens in 2004, Torino in 2006, Beijing in 2008, and Vancouver in 2010. He discusses his work on the Olympic telecasts extensively in a book by Andrew Billings entitled Olympic Media: Inside the Biggest Show on Television. A personal influence on Costas has been legendary ABC Sports broadcaster Jim McKay, who hosted many Olympics for ABC from the 1960s to the 1980s. During the 1992 Barcelona and 1996 Atlanta Opening Ceremonies, Costas' remarks on the China Team's possible drug use caused an uproar among the American Chinese and international communities. Thousands of dollars were raised to purchase ads in the Washington Post and Sunday New York Times, featuring an image of the head of a statue of Apollo and reading: "Costas Poisoned Olympic Spirit, Public Protests NBC." However, Costas' comments were made subsequent to the suspension of Chinese coach Zhou Ming after seven of his swimmers were caught using steroids in 1994. Further evidence of Chinese athletes' drug use came in 1997 when Australian authorities confiscated 13 vials of Somatropin, a human growth hormone, from the bag of Chinese swimmer Yuan Yuan upon her arrival for the 1997 World Swimming Championships. At the World Championships, four Chinese swimmers tested positive for the banned substance Triamterene, a diuretic used to dilute urine samples in order to mask the presence of anabolic steroids. Including these failed drug tests, 27 Chinese swimmers were caught using performance enhancing drugs from 1990 through 1997; more than the rest of the world combined. [1]
- He was born in the Queens borough of New York, New York, as a son of Jayne Quinlan, of Irish descent, and John George Costas, an electrical engineer of Greek descent.The family roots are from the island of Chios in the Aegean Sea. In the documentary television series Baseball (1994), directed by Ken Burns, Costas indicated that he had a very poor relationship with his father, but did not go into specifics. He grew up in Commack, New York, graduating from Commack High School South. Following high school, he was majoring in communications and rhetorical studies at Syracuse University, before he dropped out of school. Later, he would receive an honorary degree from its S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.
- Bob Costas is a sportscaster for NBC best known for his coverage of the Olympics. He appears as himself in the episode Boy Meets Curl.
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