Ep. 411 — Bob Costas

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

CNN

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Sports broadcaster Bob Costas loved baseball from an early age. As a kid, Bob would sit in his father’s car, tuning the radio to find baseball games taking place hundreds of miles from his home on Long Island. Since his first full-time broadcasting gig at 22, he has called NBA Finals and World Series, hosted Super Bowls and Olympic Games and been inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame. He joined David to talk about the intersection of politics and sports, the magic of baseball on the radio and the difficulty athletes, leagues, and sportscasters face in finding balance between advocacy and entertainment.

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0:00.0	And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN Audio, the Axe Files, with
0:12.5	your host, David Axelrod.
0:19.9	Bob Castis is a legend in sports broadcasting, and not just because of the brilliance and
0:24.5	elegance with which he's called the Games, but because of his honest, thoughtful, and
0:28.7	decisive perspective that he's brought to the institution of sports.
0:33.6	After 40 years at NBC, Castis is now a commentator at CNN, and I checked in with him last
0:39.5	week on this turbulent year in sports, in politics, and in the life of our country.
0:46.5	Here's that conversation.
0:55.3	Bob Castis, it's great to see you, a living legend with your Syracuse cap on a faithful
1:01.9	alum, or the cradle of sports broadcasters.
1:06.4	I can't even be track of the dozens and dozens.
1:09.2	I mean, it started with the legendary Marty Glickman who was...
1:12.2	I know.
1:13.2	I was going to ask you, we both grew up in New York, and you were a New York Giants fan.
1:16.0	You know, my father and I used to drive to Coney Island.
1:18.9	We would park our car.
1:21.4	He would park the car.
1:22.4	We would get hot dogs at Nathan's, and those big fat French fries.
1:27.6	And we would sit in the car and listen to Marty Glickman and Al D. Ruggottas call the Giants
1:34.1	Games on Sundays.
1:35.6	And Marty also virtually invented how a basketball game should be called on the radio.
1:42.2	Head of the key.
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