Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something that's offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That's my ideal.

He is a frequent supporter of the school to include numerous radio commercials. Including these failed drug tests 27 Chinese swimmers were caught using performance enhancing drugs from 1990 through 1997; more than the rest of the world combined. Despite this dramatic act the Cardinals scored two runs in the top of the tenth.

He has been prime-time host of a record 9 Olympic games. Robert Quinlan "Bob" Costas (born March 22 1952) is an American sportscaster on the air for NBC Sports television since the early 1980s.