Since 1995, Costas has also hosted NBC's coverage of the U. S. Open golf tournament.

Costas has frontlined many Olympics broadcasts for NBC.

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.

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 ".

* Costello has been portrayed in several movies by actors James Andronica in Gangster Wars ( 1981 ), Carmine Caridi in Bugsy ( 1991 ), Costas Mandylor in Mobsters ( 1991 ), and by Kirk Baltz in the television movie Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long ( 1995 ).

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

Costas Simitis ' family has roots in Ilida ( municipality ).

On the June 22, 2012 edition of The Dan Patrick Show, Patrick and longtime baseball commentator Bob Costas discussed the impact Tommy John surgery has made on the game, with Costas stating " you could make a case for " John being awarded the Buck O ' Neil Lifetime Achievement Award.

Designed by the Greek architect Costas Kondylis, the building is 861 feet high and has 72 constructed floors ( but lists 90 stories on elevator panels ) with curtain wall facades of dark, bronze-tinted glass.

Recently, ( March 2006 ) Eurostat has made changes to the system of defense expenditure calculation, which seemed to legitimize some of the practices of the previous Costas Simitis government of PASOK.

World renowned sportscaster Bob Costas has provided a tremendous amount of support to Cardinal Glennon, annually hosting an event at the Fabulous Fox Theatre that donates proceeds to the Children ’ s Medical Center, in addition to his sponsorship of the “ Bob Costas Cancer Center .”

Patrick has stated a close professional relationship or friendship with several in the sports and media world, including: Charles Barkley, who has talked about range of issues with Patrick on air, including gambling addiction and racial issues, as well as funnier stories when the two have golfed together, and whom may be inquire when the two are getting together next ; Adam Sandler, whom Patrick will invite on the show to talk about sports or movies, in addition to offering Patrick movie roles in films Sandler helps produce ; Bob Costas, whom Patrick considers a mentor and has credited him with " being the best in the business " and sometimes jokingly becomes irritated when talking about Sports Emmy Award Costas has won, even with Patrick nominated in the same category for ; and Reggie Miller, whom Patrick will try to arrange a dinner or visit to one of Miller's homes in Southern California when Patrick may be on a West Coast tour.

Plot: The J through K volume of Chainsaw's World Book encyclopedia has been stolen and ( in the movie ) Chainsaw accuses Dave of stealing it, triggering a comedic misadventure with guest appearances by co-starring Bob Costas, Dom Irrera, Doug Flutie, Davy Jones, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, and Don Rickles.

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 ).

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 ).

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

Costas, along with Tony Kubek, was calling the Saturday baseball Game of the Week from Chicago's Wrigley Field.

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.

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.

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 ).

Television: NBC Sports's team included Bob Costas ( play-by-play announcer ), Hannah Storm ( pre-game host ), Doug Collins and Isiah Thomas ( color analysts ), Bill Walton, John Salley and Peter Vescey ( pre-game panelists ), Ahmad Rashad and Jim Gray ( Sideline Reporters ).

In an hour-long interview aired December 15, 2009, on the MLB Network's Studio 42 with Bob Costas, Allen asserted that he and Thomas are in fact good friends now.

* Richards Martin, Macaulay Vincent, Hickey Eileen, Vega Emilce, Sykes Bryan, Guida Valentina, Rengo Chiara, Sellitto Daniele, Cruciani Fulvio, Kivisild Toomas, Villerns Richard, Thomas Mark, Rychkov Serge, Rychkov Oksana, Rychkov Yuri, Golge Mukaddes, Dimitrov Dimitar, Hill Emmeline, Bradley Dan, Romano Valentino, Cail Francesco, Vona Giuseppe, Demaine Andrew, Papiha Surinder, Triantaphyllides Costas, Stefanescu Gheorghe, Hatina Jiri, Belledi Michele, Di Rienzo Anna, Novelletto Andrea, Oppenheim Ariella, Norby Soren, Al-Zaheri Nadia, Santachiara-Benerecetti Silvana, Scozzari Rosaria, Torroni Antonio, & Bandelt Hans Jurgen.

* Rajeev Alur, Costas Courcoubetis, Nicolas Halbwachs, Thomas A. Henzinger, Pei-Hsin Ho, Xavier Nicollin, Alfredo Olivero, Joseph Sifakis, and Sergio Yovine The algorithmic analysis of hybrid systems.

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

Costas began his professional career at KMOX radio in St. Louis, Missouri, where he served as a play-by-play announcer for the Spirits of St. Louis of the American Basketball Association in 1974.

Costas later did play-by-play for Chicago Bulls broadcasts on WGN-TV during the 1979 – 1980 NBA season.

Costas later appeared on Conan O ' Brien's talk show and criticized his employer for its decision to air a preview of the upcoming series Animal Practice over a performance by The Who during the London closing ceremonies.

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 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.

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 ).

A Costas loop is a phase-locked loop used for carrier phase recovery from suppressed-carrier modulation signals, such as from double-sideband suppressed carrier signals.

This translates to double the sensitivity and also makes the Costas loop uniquely suited for tracking doppler-shifted carriers esp.

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.

* John P. Costas-telecommunications engineer, noted for the Costas loop

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

" Earlier, on 12 September 1731, Rear Admiral Stewart had written to the Governor of Havana to complain of the " violence and villainies " of a Guarda Costa commander named Fandino who, " about the 20th April last sailed out of your harbor in one of those Guarda Costas, and met a ship of this island bound for England ; and after using the captain in a most barbarous inhuman manner, taking all his money, cutting off one of his ears, plundering him of those necessaries which were to carry the ship safe home ...".

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

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.

The President of the Association for Social Impact and Culture Costas Halevas liked the idea and set about organizing the event.