nymag.com - 2/6/2009
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A sports blogger's mainstream media misadventures with Bob Costas and Buzz Bissinger.
cnbc.com - 2/3/2009
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cnbc.com —
Bob Costas, a 19-time Emmy Award winner and
NBC broadcaster, has signed a multi-year contract to join...
the upstart MLB Network, CNBC has learned, though he will remain at NBC Sports. The MLB network, which debuted on Jan. 1 as the largest launch in ...
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Bob Costas to Join MLB Network But Stay With NBC - ...
bizofbaseball.com - 2/3/2009
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bizofbaseball.com —
MLB Network today announced that Bob Costas has
joined its roster of on-air talent, effective immediately. As...
part of a multi-year deal, MLB Network will be the exclusive cable home for Costas, who will host special original programming with an ...
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Bob Costas Joins MLB Network
houseofsoccer.blogspot.com - 2/5/2009
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houseofsoccer.blogspot.com —
February 5 --- House of Soccer: My godfather
is biased. --- He's called me completely out of...
the blue to ask me the most random of sports questions.* --- He understands that while I may have ceded my dream to play professional sports, I have acquired another through the realm of sports journalism.
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Dream: to become the next Bob Costas
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BLS 25 Random Baseball Things: Rob Iracane of Walkoff Walk
Big League Stew —
... 19. I'm excited to have Bob Costas join the MLB Network and call
some real live actual baseball games this season, despite the fact that
everything I've read about the guy lately has painted him as irascible,
defensive and completely unfamiliar with the Internet. He's my kinda guy: short and snarky and excellently-coiffed! ...
On Leitch, Bissinger, and Costas
High and Tight. —
... ), details the meetings leading up to the event and the aftermath of the televised debacle. New York Magazine, Leitch's new home, has printed an exerpt covering those events, and it's a pretty damned funny read, especially if you've ever dealt with paper-printed journalists who don't understand the intrawebs. ...
“Short People Are Just The Same As You And I…
Can't Stop The Bleeding —
... as some sort of cultural currency with a piece in this week’s New York that David Roth calls “as well-written as it is bizarrely unnecessary. And I think it’s pretty well-written.” I fully agree, though I do take considerable pleasure in reading Will’s account of a pre-taping encounter with Costas at a midtown Starbucks (”for about an hour, I became Costas’s personification of the internet. I knew that his understanding of the web was rudimentary, but I had no idea just how clueless he really was.”) The latter, it seems, had great ...
N.Y. Magazine: Leitch: Buzz, Bob, Projectile Spittle and Me
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog —
N.Y. Magazine: Leitch: Buzz, Bob, Projectile Spittle and Me Fun stuff...as Will Leitch looks back at his visit with Bob Costas. Which is how I ended up in the Starbucks, watching Costas sweat. I walked in and met Costas and his wife, who looks like a less harsh, friendlier Cindy McCain. I don’t drink coffee, so she bought me a water and, after about twenty minutes of small talk, drifted away to another table. I sized up Costas. He looked exactly like he did on television. It was almost creepy. It wasn’t makeup that made him look perpetually 35; he actually walks around ...
AaronGleeman.com —
... within the mag) is oddly thrilling for someone who got expelled from Hebrew school, but the world didn't need another Danica Patrick photo shoot, I've never heard of the "tennis stars" featured, and none of the 2009 "rookies" can fill Miller's shoes (or bikini). Or maybe I'm just getting old. In honor of Bob Costas ending his HBO show to take a job with MLB Network, Will Leitch looks back at his experience on Costas Now. Perhaps the only thing scarier ...
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“Short People Are Just The Same As You And I…
cantstopthebleeding.com 2/6/2009 —
…all men are brothers until the die they die.” So wrote Randy Newman (above) some years ago, though he could’ve been talking about Bob Costas and Will Leitch. Deadspin’s founder isn’t quite done using his highly publicized 2008 appearance on “Costas ...
Bob Costas on deck for MLB Network
hollywoodreporter.com 2/4/2009 — NEW YORK -- Emmy-winning sportscaster Bob Costas is leaving HBO and will join the MLB Network as a host and play-by-play announcer. The move doesn't affect his work at NBC Sports, where he has been for nearly three decades. But the MLB Network said ...
Bob Costas joins MLB Network | MLB.com: Official Info
mlb.mlb.com 2/3/2009 — SECAUCUS, N.J. - MLB Network today announced that Bob Costas, one of the most accomplished and highly decorated sports broadcasters in history, has joined its roster of on-air talent, effective immediately. As part of a multi-year deal, MLB Network ...
Costas joins MLB Network, leaves HBO -
newsday.com 2/4/2009 — Two days after hosting NBC 's coverage of the biggest event in sports TV, Bob Costas yesterday joined the upstart MLB Network, giving it a high-profile personality with an obvious tie-in: "Baseball is my favorite sport," he said, to the surprise of no ...
Costas Was Excellent With Torre
metspolice.com 2/6/2009 — A couple of things to say out front. I'm just a loudmouth with a blog and a laptop. I was just as guilty of Torre outrage as anyone else when I first heard the book, and wrote about it on metspolice.com several times. I also haven't actually read the book. I've ordered it from Amazon and hope ...
With Bob Costas, Games On MLB Network Just Got Better, Smarmier
walkoffwalk.com 2/3/2009 — Just over eight years after broadcasting his final playoff game, Bob Costas is getting back the keys to the baseball broadcasting booth. With the Super Bowl marking the end of the football season and Bob's size 32 NFL on NBC hosting jacket getting ...
Selena Roberts Talks To Bob Costas
boogiedownbaseball.blogspot.com 2/9/2009 — The MLB Network has been doing non-stop coverage of the A-Rod story since it broke this morning. I joined the party at about 12:45 and have been watching it ever since. Bob Costas just had about a 30-minute discussion with Selena Roberts, the ...
JOE BUCK TO REPLACE BOB COSTAS AT HBO - New York Post
nypost.com 2/5/2009 — \ Last updated: 11:52 am February 5, 2009 Posted: 10:32 am February 5, 2009 It didn't take long for HBO to find a replacement for Bob Costas. FOX analyst Joe Buck will be taking over Costas' role as talk-show host and the face of HBO Sports, a source ...
The MLB Network Kicks Ass
sportable.com 2/9/2009 —
I’ve had very few good things to say about Commissioner Bud Selig during his tenure in Major League Baseball. But just over a month into launch, I can easily say that MLB Network is one of Selig’s crown jewels. And Spring Training ...
Thursday Night Update
fangsbites.com 2/6/2009 — Time for a few more links this evening. I'm watching the premiere episode of Studio 42 with Bob Costas on MLB Network. The interview Bob Costas conducted was quite tough on Torre, but the ex-Yankees manager maintained his cool. I'll have a column at ...
MLB Network's Propaganda —
Bleacher Report - MLB 2/8/2009
So, here's what's going on with the MLB network this evening. Instead of hiding this story and saying "innocent until proven guilty" and letting the unofficial outlets like ESPN beat it into the ground, or simply pushing it under the rug with ...
