{"id":487,"date":"2014-02-11T13:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T18:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/?p=487"},"modified":"2014-02-11T12:18:13","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T17:18:13","slug":"bob-costas-not-on-nbc-olympic-coverage-due-to-pink-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/2014\/02\/11\/bob-costas-not-on-nbc-olympic-coverage-due-to-pink-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Costas not on NBC Olympic coverage due to pink eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/02\/bobcostaseyes.jpg\" alt=\"bobcostaseyes\" width=\"503\" height=\"373\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-488\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/02\/bobcostaseyes.jpg 503w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/02\/bobcostaseyes-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><br \/>\nMatt Lauer will replace Bob Costas on NBC&#8217;s Winter Olympic coverage starting Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Costas revealed the news on\u00a0<em>Today<\/em> that his eye infection had spread to both eyes and force him to miss Tuesday&#8217;s prime-time airing. Lauer has been hosting the\u00a0<em>Today\u00a0<\/em>show and will step in for him.<\/p>\n<p>Costas will step aside on NBC for the first time since 1988 . It&#8217;s worth noting that Jim Nantz was the last person to be on prime-time as he led coverage for CBS in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Even slamming vodka with Mary Carillo could not save Costas&#8217; eyes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WafGhZd9Rxs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The following conversation took place between Lauer and Costas on\u00a0<em>Today<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Reluctantly, I was trying to throw a complete game here, but I think we&#8217;re going to have to go to the bullpen, and I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;re aware of this or not, but you&#8217;re Mariano Rivera, at least tonight,&#8221; Costas told Lauer by phone live on TODAY Tuesday. &#8220;Let&#8217;s hope it&#8217;s only tonight. I&#8217;m walking around, I might as well be playing &#8216;Marco Polo.&#8217; I have no idea where I am.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Lauer will replace Bob Costas on NBC&#8217;s Winter Olympic coverage starting Tuesday. Costas revealed the news on\u00a0Today that his eye infection had spread to both eyes and force him to miss Tuesday&#8217;s prime-time airing. Lauer has been hosting the\u00a0Today\u00a0show and will step in for him. Costas will step aside on NBC for the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[58,9],"coauthors":[5],"class_list":{"0":"post-487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-bob-costas","9":"tag-front"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}