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Bob Costas is one of the most accomplished broadcasters in the history of television. He has won 15 Emmy Awards -- twelve for Outstanding Sports Broadcaster or Play-by-Play, two for Writing, and one for his late night interview show, "Later...with Bob Costas." Bob has been named "National Sportscaster of the Year" an unprecedented eight times by his peers in the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association. He has been with NBC Sports since 1979. He anchored NBC's primetime coverage of the last three Summer Olympics (Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996, and Sydney 2000), and he most recently hosted the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City. Costas hosted NBC's "NFL Live" pre-game show for nine years, and has hosted six Super Bowls. In baseball, he has been involved in the coverage of six League Championship Series and five World Series. He was the play-by-play voice of the "NBA on NBC" from 1997 through the 1999-2000 season. In February 2001, he took his enormous talents to HBO, with the debut of the critically acclaimed "On The Record with Bob Costas." In September 2002, Bob became host of HBO's "Inside the NFL," cable's longest-running series.

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