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Bob Costas

and World Series telecasts. His book, Fair Ball: A Fan’s Case for Baseball , earned excellent reviews. Bob was the play-by-play voice of the NBA on NBC from 1997 through the 1999-2000 season. He was also a contributing interviewer and essayist on NBC’s NFL pre-game show. In February 2001, HBO launched “On the Record” with Bob Costas, a weekly, hour-long program. Bob is a frequent contributor to NBC news, as a reporter and interviewer on the "Today Show" and other network programs. Costas has won fourteen Emmy Awards and has been nominated in five different categories: play-by-play, hosting, writing, interviewing, and journalism. Bob has been named “National Sportscaster of the Year” an unprecedented eight times by his peers. The Bob Costas Cancer Center, opened in the summer of 1998, is a regional, comprehensive program dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of childhood cancer and other blood and immune disorders. Through Bob's efforts, more than $10 million has been raised to deliver some of the most advanced medical care available in the world.

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