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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.

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  • Bob Costas
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  • 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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  • Olympic commentator
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  • 1952-03-22(xsd:date)
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