Bob Costas along with Gayle Gardner hosted the pregame, halftime, and postgame coverage with analysts Paul Maguire and then-Miami Dolphins head coach Don Shula, pregame roving reporter Jim Gray ( who was also working as a researcher for NBC Sports at the time ) and Marv Albert, who interviewed Boomer Esiason after the game.

Hammond is one of the network's staple on-air presenters, along with Bob Costas and Dan Hicks.

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.

When Costas was first hired by NBC, Don Ohlmeyer, who at the time ran the network's sports division, told the then 28-year-old Costas that he looked like a 14-year-old ( a story that Costas would recite during an appearance on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien when O ' Brien commented about Costas ' apparent inability to " age " normally ).

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.

Along with that of co-host Meredith Vieira and Matt Lauer, Costa's commentary of the 2012 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremonies has come under fierce criticism, with Costas being described as making " a series of jingoistic remarks, including a joke about Idi Amin when Uganda's team appeared " and the combined commentary as being " ignorant " and " banal ".

Bob Costas hosted all the events with analyst Mike Ditka.

Essentially, 666 was Vangelis ' concept, created with an outside lyricist, Costas Ferris.

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.

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

Brian Williams co-hosted with Bob Costas instead.

Harwell sat down for a 60 minute interview on an episode of MLB Network's Studio 42 with Bob Costas, his final television appearance.

In the first days following his election, Costas Simitis faced the biggest crisis in Greek politics for over 20 years, with the Imia crisis.

Costas Simitis won another term in April 2000, narrowly winning with 43. 8 % of the vote and 158 seats: a substantial achievement for a Party which had been in power almost continuously for nearly 20 years.

On 16 September 2007, the ND Party headed by Costas Karamanlis won re-election with a marginal majority of 152 seats in the Parliament.

* On August 18, 2005, Chris Pixley hosted the program instead of then-regular guest host Bob Costas, who did not feel comfortable with the subject matter, the Natalee Holloway case.

From to, Morgan teamed with Bob Costas and ( until ) Bob Uecker to call baseball games on NBC ( and in association with The Baseball Network from 1994 to ).

The movie, loosely based on the Shin storyline of the manga, stars Gary Daniels as Kenshiro, Costas Mandylor as Shin and Japanese actress Isako Washio as Yuria, with Malcolm McDowell as Ryuken and Chris Penn as " Jackal " ( actually a renamed Jagi ).

Recent speakers at the LSE have included Kofi Annan, Hilary Benn, Ben Bernanke, Tony Blair, Hazel Blears, Cherie Booth, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Noam Chomsky, Bill Clinton, Alistair Darling, Niall Ferguson, Joschka Fischer, Vicente Fox, Milton Friedman, Muammar al-Gaddafi, John Lewis Gaddis, Alan Greenspan, Tenzin Gyatso, Will Hutton, Paul Krugman, Richard Lambert, Jens Lehmann, Lee Hsien Loong, John Major, Nelson Mandela, Mary McAleese, Dmitri Medvedev, John Atta Mills, Mario Monti, George Osborne, Robert Peston, Sebastián Piñera, Kevin Rudd, Jeffrey Sachs, Gerhard Schroeder, Carlos D. Mesa, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Costas Simitis, George Soros, Lord Stern, Jack Straw, Aung San Suu Kyi, Baroness Thatcher, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Rowan Williams.

Set in a world populated entirely by anthropomorphic cars and other vehicles, it features voices by Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy, Paul Newman ( in his final non-documentary feature ), Bonnie Hunt, Tony Shalhoub, Cheech Marin, Michael Wallis, George Carlin, Paul Dooley, Jenifer Lewis, Guido Quaroni, Michael Keaton, Katherine Helmond, and John Ratzenberger as well as voice cameos by several celebrities including Jeremy Piven, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Bob Costas, Darrell Waltrip, Jay Leno, Michael Schumacher, Tom and Ray Magliozzi from NPR's Car Talk, and Mario Andretti.

* Costas Georgiou ( aka " Colonel Tony Callan "), 25 ( Cyprus / UK )

Bob Costas and Dan Patrick ( who also presided over the trophy presentation ceremony ) hosted the pregame, halftime, and postgame coverage for NBC with Football Night in America analysts Tony Dungy and Rodney Harrison and special guest analysts ( who were seated next to Costas during the pre-game festivities ), Aaron Rodgers and Hines Ward.

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?!

Bob Costas, Tim McCarver, Tony Bennett, John Sterling, Keith Hernández, Bret Saberhagen, George Steinbrenner, Brian Cashman, Ozzie Smith and Bobby Murcer among others, play themselves in the film.

When future broadcasting partner Bob Costas once referenced Virdon's smash on the air, Kubek put his hand on Costas ' thigh to stop him.

He spent 24 years at the network, teaming with play-by-play announcers such as Jim Simpson, Curt Gowdy ( whom Kubek called his favorite partner ), Joe Garagiola and Bob Costas.

The team of Kubek and Bob Costas ( backing up Vin Scully and Joe Garagiola and later, Tom Seaver ) proved to be a formidable pair.

Costas was praised by fans for both his reverence and irreverence while Kubek was praised for his technical approach and historical perspective.

Kubek and Costas, who had worked together since ( and in the process, called four American League Championship Series: 1983, 1985, 1987, and 1989 ), called the final edition ( the 981st overall ) of NBC's Game of the Week which aired on September 30, 1989.

" The final broadcast for Kubek and Costas as a team was Game 5 of the 1989 American League Championship Series ( October 8 ), also at SkyDome, where the Oakland Athletics won to advance to the World Series.

He was born in the Queens borough of New York, New York, as a son of Jayne ( née Quinlan ), of Irish descent, and John George Costas, an electrical engineer of Greek descent.

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 ).

It was invented by John P. Costas at General Electric in the 1950s.

Three more were executed: American Daniel Gearhart was sentenced to death for advertising himself as a mercenary in an American newspaper ; Andrew McKenzie and Costas Georgiou ( the self styled " Colonel Callan "), who had both served in the British army, were sentenced to death for murder.

A final set of songs entitled: Odysseia was composed by utilizing poetry written by Costas Kartelias for lyrics.

Costas Simitis was leader of PASOK and prime minister from 1996 – 2004.

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.

Konstantinos Simitis () ( born 23 June 1936 ), usually referred to as Costas Simitis or Kostas Simitis, was Prime Minister of Greece and leader of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement ( PASOK ) from 1996 to 2004.

He was succeeded by Costas Simitis, the candidate of the modernising, pro-European wing of the PA. SO. K.

Conference in the summer of 1996, following Andreas Papandreou's death, Costas Simitis was elected leader of the Party and called early elections seeking a renewed public vote of confidence.

After Andreas Papandreou's death, Costas Simitis was elected as President of the PA. SO. K.

In early 2006, it was revealed that the cellular phone of Costas Karamanlis, as well as those of several other members of the government and officials of the armed forces, had been tapped for several months during and after the 2004 Athens Olympics.

* On June 8, 2005, sportscaster Bob Costas was named as the regular substitute anchor for the show, filling in roughly 20 times a year and not on a set schedule.

Its station managers have included Ned Miller — who plans to fire Frasier to cut costs but is fired first — Tom Duran, Kate Costas, and Kenny Daly, and at the end of the show, Roz Doyle, who was Frasier's producer throughout the show's run.

On February 14, 2002, 55-year-old limousine driver Costas " Gus " Christofi was shot to death at Williams's estate in Alexandria Township, New Jersey.

He was overthrown in the Revolution of ' 43 military coup in the midst of an unpopular attempt to impose Robustiano Patrón Costas as his successor.

Another was Costas Laliotis, the former Minister of Public Works during whose term the project had begun.

At the plenary session, an Ethics Committee was also established under the chairmanship of Costas Stephanis from Greece ; among of the members was Marat Vartanyan from the USSR.