Costas Does Not Want Viewers if They Are Looking for a 'Repeat of Bissinger - Leitch'

Awful Announcing found this 7/17/2008 on backporch.fanhouse.com [flag]

I find it whimsically amusing that over 30 years after he began his broadcasting career (roughly around the time he used the word "blowjob" as a synonym for the word "choke" in an ABA game) he is somehow being redefined by a one-sided shouting match between a blogger and a vitriol fueled author. However, if your motivation for watching Costas Now this evening (9 p.m., HBO, natch) is to see a ... [link]

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Aw That's Cute, Leitch And Bissinger Make Up Over Beers And Dogs
Published 7/17/2008 by Awful Announcing- (noreply@blogger.com) at Awful Announcing
... The odd thing about all of this isn't that the two of them showed up together but that it was Costas' idea. The host spent most of yesterday giving interviews trying convince people not to watch if they wanted a recreation like the Leitch-Bissinger event, but hey...whatever works right? ...

FanHouse Minute: More Sex, Less Internet
Published 7/17/2008 at FanHouse
... Word FanHouse Minute is your 60-second rundown of the top five headlines of the day. Check back here every weekday morning for the latest. Video Link. Read more: 5.Mustache Appreciation Night. Can't Get Any Better Than That 4.Packers Charge Vikings with Tampering 3.John Daly's Not a Drunk! 2.It's Easy: More Sex, Less Internet 1.Bob Doesn't Want Your Ratings The lovely ladies of FanHouse Minute: ...

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And One posted 7/15/2008 from online.wsj.com

"Costas Now," the sports news and interview show, which returns to HBO tomorrow at 9 p.m. EDT, may attract viewers in record numbers -- but Bob Costas isn't sure he wants all of them. "I'd like everyone interested in sports to tune in," he says, "but if all they're looking for is a repeat of 'Bissinger vs. Leitch' I'd just as soon they watched something else."