Renowned sportscaster Bob Costas never has refrained from tackling social issues in his high-profile roles, including some of the biggest in all of broadcasting — most notably as NBC’s lead host for its Olympics and “Sunday Night Football” telecasts.
Whether it was addressing China’s troubling human-rights record or providing his thoughts about what he and others perceived as a gun culture within the country and sports leading to unneeded deaths following a Kansas City Chiefs player committing a murder-suicide, he has had the gumption to leap into the hot-topics fires when he deemed it appropriate.
Costas now is semiretired, at age 70, but hasn’t lost his fastball when it comes to expressing his thoughts.