Robert Quinlan “Bob” Costas professionally known as Bob Costas is an American sportscaster. Bob Costas was born in the borough of Queens in New York City on March 22, 1952.
He was born with an Irish and Greek descent to Jayne and John George Costas. Born with white ethnicity, Bob grew up primarily in Commack, New York.
He graduated from Commack High School South and the Syracuse University; he has majored in communications.
He began his career as an announcer for the Syracuse Blazers minor-league hockey team while he was attending Syracuse University.
Before graduating from Syracuse University, Bob accepted a job at radio giant, KMOX in St. Louis. He then slowly started to make his way to the success in the hosting business.
In his early days in his career, he was employed by CBS Sports as CBS NBA announcer and a regional CBS NFL from the year 1976 to 1979. After leaving the CBS Sports, he moved to NBC.
In NBC, he hosted NBA coverage and NBC’s National Football League coverage for many years.
Bob Costas in his career has worked very hard to achieve success. He has been a smart interviewer who has been continuously presenting and hosting as a sportscaster.
His odious sense of humor and encyclopedic knowledge has placed him to the peak of success. He has always been surrounded with controversies and has been a controversial personality who has a large number of fans and well-wishers.
Bob has made his career wonderful, and his career gives him a wonderful salary, which makes a wonderful net worth. His net worth is estimated to be $45 million, and this net worth of him proves how successful he has been in his career.
Bob has been very popular as one of the oldest sportscasters of NBC Sports television who has been working since the early 1980s.
In his career, he has hosted nine Olympic Games. He also hosts an interview show named Studio 42 with Bob Costas, and for MLB Network, he does play-by-play.
This sensationally talented sportscaster has been married twice. In the year 1983, Bob married Carole Krummenacher. He has two children, son Keith and daughter Taylor with Carole.
Bob had a divorce with his wife in the year 2001. Again, in 2004, Bob married his girlfriend, Jill Sutton. He seems to have a good relation with his second wife, as there are no any rumors about their separation.
He now resides primarily in New York with his better-half. He is not a gay at all.
With the height of five feet seven inches, Bob Costas owns a handsome personality even at the age of 64. There are many pictures of him in the media where we can see how fit he looks even at his early sixties.
There are much more pictures of him posted to his Instagram account. To see his tweets, he can also be followed in his official Twitter account where he has altogether 1979 followers among which he is following back 42 followers. a
To know more about him, one can also go through is a biography in the wiki.