Robert Quinlan " Bob " Costas ( born March 22, 1952 ) is an American sportscaster, on the air for NBC Sports television since the early 1980s.

Costas has teamed with Isiah Thomas and Doug Collins for NBA telecasts ( from 1997 – 2000 ) and Sal Bando ( 1982 ), Tony Kubek ( from 1983 – 1989 ), Joe Morgan and Bob Uecker ( from 1994 – 2000 ) for baseball telecasts.

Before becoming the studio host for The NFL on NBC in 1984, Costas did play-by-play of NFL games with analyst Bob Trumpy.

Past winners include Jimmy Breslin, Mike Royko, George Will and Bob Costas.

During this time, Bob Costas had taken over the lead job and called the Finals after Marv's arrest for sexual assault had brought him national disgrace.

Bob Costas filled in those games, and Albert returned to call Game 1 of the Western Conference Semifinals between the Dallas Mavericks and Sacramento Kings.

It featured cameos by Charles Barkley, David Letterman, O. J. Simpson, Bob Costas, and Tom Brokaw.

Bob Costas took over for Albert on the basketball side in the 1997 – 98 season before stepping down after the 2000 NBA Finals for Albert's return.

* 1952 – Bob Costas, American sports commentator

While Dick Enberg, Merlin Olsen and Bob Griese called the game, Bob Costas and his NFL ' 85 castmates, Ahmad Rashad and Pete Axthelm anchored the pregame, halftime and postgame coverage.

Bob Costas hosted all the events with analyst Mike Ditka.

While Lampley was busy covering the trophy presentation, Bob Costas ( who also interviewed Dallas head coach Jimmy Johnson and Dallas owner / general manager Jerry Jones together prior to the game ) covered for Lampley at the host and anaylsts ' desk ( and signed off the broadcast for NBC ).

In eulogizing Mantle, sportscaster Bob Costas described him as " a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic.

For pay-per-view fights, Bob Costas and James Brown have been called in on occasion to oversee the telecast while Lampley calls the fight.

Celebrities appearing as themselves included Chuck D, Al Roker, Bob Costas, Jerry Seinfeld, James Caan, Adam West, George " Goober " Lindsey and heavy metal band Anthrax.

* Bob Costas, NBC sports commentator

Sugar had been referred to as " Runyonesque " ( in reference to Damon Runyon ) by Bob Costas, and " one of the foremost historians alive ," by the Boston Globe.

In 1993, Lampley took over studio hosting duties for Bob Costas on The NFL on NBC.

Speaking about his quiet reputation within the sport's history, sportscaster Bob Costas said, " He didn't hit a homer in his last at-bat ; he hit a single.

As NBC play-by-play man Bob Costas ( who called the game with Tony Kubek ) said when Sandberg hit that second home run, " Do you believe it?!

On October 18, 2007, Vincent appeared with sportscaster Bob Costas at Williams College for " A Conversation About Sports ", moderated by Will Dudley, Associate Professor of Philosophy.

Caray was filling in for Bob Costas, who sat out the Division Series after anchoring NBC's prime time coverage of the Summer Olympic Games from Sydney, Australia.

She has broadcast with Bob Costas, beginning with the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Brian Williams co-hosted with Bob Costas instead.

Such songwriters as Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, Pete Seeger, Joe Strummer, Billy Bragg, Jeff Tweedy and Tom Paxton have acknowledged Guthrie as a major influence.

Bob Marley, Toots Hibbert, and other reggae stars have acknowledged their debt.

In an interview shortly after his successful film version of " Cabaret " opened, Bob Fosse acknowledged Huston's filming of the can-can in " Moulin Rouge " as being very influential on his own film style.

There the similarity ends, however ; Gwynplaine is an embittered hero, while the Joker is a psychopathic criminal. In the 1970s, Bob Kane acknowledged the inspiration for the Joker, and it was later explicitly referenced in the graphic novel, Batman: The Man Who Laughs.

Bob Ansett returned from the USA in the 1970s to establish Budget Rent a Car, however Reg Ansett never acknowledged his son's presence in Australia.

Liljefors is held in high esteem by painters of wildlife and is acknowledged as an influence, for example, by American wildlife artist Bob Kuhn.

( paragraph rewrite needed ) Master Spas revolutionised the “ swimspa ” market in the mid noughties with the introduction of units that incorporated a patented propulsion chamber, these units bought the benefits of volume driven counter currents to acrylic swimspas along with stand up and seated hydro therapy and as the Michael Phelps Signature Swimspa range by Master Spas are acknowledged as most advanced luxury swimming machines available in terms of performance and specification, the designer Bob Lauter CEO of Master Spas, has introduced several ground breaking swimspas designs over the last 30 years.

In 2000, following a media uproar prompted by the visit of presidential candidate George W. Bush to the university, Bob Jones III abruptly dropped the interracial dating rule, announcing the change on CNN's " Larry King Live ".

* 1965 – Bob Dylan goes electric as he plugs in at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.

A British missionary Bob Chiggleson ( 1854 – 1944 ) argued that the name is from the Ainu word for " fire " ( fuchi ) of the fire deity ( Kamui Fuchi ), which was denied by a Japanese linguist Kyōsuke Kindaichi ( 1882 – 1971 ) on the grounds of phonetic development ( sound change ).

When Krusty makes a tribute to Bob at the last minute, however, Bob has a change of heart and stops Bart from fulfilling his mission.

' Gilligan ' DVD drifts into port ," The Washington Post, February 8, 2004, page N1: < nowiki >"</ nowiki > To his credit, star Bob Denver lobbied Schwartz and others to change the lyrics to the theme song after the second season, so all the characters and not just most of them were listed.

Following a crew change, it departed Montreal as Flight 143 for the return trip to Edmonton via Ottawa, with Captain Robert ( Bob ) Pearson and First Officer Maurice Quintal at the controls.

* Bob Hope suggests that Anthony Benedetto change his stage name from " Joe Bari " to " Tony Bennett "

When the Sisters ask him to pray for them, Bob is moved to change his mind about their project, and the film ends with Bob, Kitty, Anthony, Miss Potts, Mr. Rossi and the Bishop all attending the dedication of the temporary home of the hospital of St. Jude.

On November 11, 2003 the airport authority voted to change the airport's name to Bob Hope Airport in honor of comedian Bob Hope, a longtime resident of nearby Toluca Lake, who had died earlier in the year and who had kept his personal airplane at the airfield.

Apparently, Bob has no idea who he is, Weebl's only spoke of him in the first place to change the subject of why he didn't have a tan where a bikini top would be.

Bob Brown lays out the Green's climate change policies in the lead-up to the Australian federal election, 2007 | 2007 federal election

Bob Brown at a climate change rally in Melbourne on 5 July 2008

By mid-1968, with their commercial popularity flagging, the group's personnel began to change ; the band was renamed " Sky Saxon and the Seeds " in 1969, by which point Bob Norsoph, guitar, and Don Boomer, drums, had replaced Savage and Andridge.

On the other hand, Inhofe's view on climate change have been praised by Australian geophysicist and climate change skeptic Bob Carter, who says that Inhofe " has been instrumental in making sure that some of the other side of the story on climate change remains in the public domain.

Following the election, Bob produced a report which provided " An unflinching look at the bad results Labour suffered in the East, and ideas for how Labour can change its policies and the way it does business, to reclaim the ground it has lost ".

Bob Hagan, the club boss at the time of the 2000 change, explained that the dropping of the name ' Canterbury ' was intended to broaden the appeal of the club outside of its traditional supporter base, so that the club could attract a geographically diverse following like Manchester United or the Chicago Bulls.

* Bob Shannon-afternoon drive personality who survived the format change to top forty in 1977 and later went on to having a successful film / television acting career as well as a well known film acting coach in Los Angeles.

Spunge are the only band who has ever officially been given permission by the Marley family to change the lyrics of a Bob Marley song, on their cover of " No Woman, No Cry " ( this can be found on their second album, Room for Abuse ).

However, they were not sure just how much they could legally change and did most of the changes in the first third of the script, including the addition of Bob and Doug's science fiction film, Mutants of 2051 A. D., Bob and Doug watching it in a movie theater, and causing a riot.