Bob Costas, please keep spouting off
The murder-suicide of Kansas City Chiefs player Jovan Belcher opened a door last night for veteran sportscaster Bob Costas. During the halftime show of NBC’s “Sunday Night Football,” Costas faced his...
View ArticleFire Costas! says talking head on Fox News
In a just-concluded segment with Megyn Kelly on Fox News, radio commentator Lars Larson declared that NBC’s Bob Costas should be fired for his comments during halftime of last night’s broadcast of...
View ArticleSports outlets treat politics with care
Bob Costas takes a few moments out of a halftime broadcast of “Sunday Night Football” to talk politics and society, and right away a good portion of America piles on the umbrage. At 5:01 p.m., for...
View ArticleBob Costas backtracks on gun remarks
In the above interview with Dan Patrick, Bob Costas “clarifies” his highly controversial comments from the halftime show of “Sunday Night Football,” when he addressed root causes of the murder/suicide...
View ArticleDear Bob Costas: You cannot have it both ways
If only Bill O’Reilly treated all his guests the way he does the heavy-hitters. Last night, he hosted NBC’s embattled big-shot Bob Costas, he of Sunday night’s controversial comments about gun control...
View ArticleBob Costas responds!
Bob Costas monitors his media. Earlier today, the Erik Wemple Blog wrote an item criticizing the NBC star for some polemical tightrope-walking in the days since his famous editorial during halftime of...
View ArticleNewtown: Costas no-comments tragedy
A few weeks ago, NBC sportscaster Bob Costas railed against U.S. “gun culture” during halftime of a “Sunday Night Football” broadcast. His editorializing came after Kansas City Chiefs player Jovan...
View ArticleWorld offers eye tips to NBC’s Bob Costas
Olympic broadcasting mainstay Bob Costas will sit out another night of anchoring at the Sochi Olympic games, the better to allow his eyes to recover from a much-talked-about eye infection. In a fresh...
View ArticleNBC’s Bob Costas, Sen. John McCain mend fences on Putin
Sen. John McCain was among those who hammered NBC’s Bob Costas for the content of a Vladimir Putin primer that aired as part of the network’s early coverage of the Sochi Olympic Games. Aired prior to a...
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