{"id":810,"date":"2014-02-16T17:50:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T22:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/?p=810"},"modified":"2014-02-16T17:50:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-16T22:50:59","slug":"bob-costas-returning-to-nbc-for-olympic-coverage-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/2014\/02\/16\/bob-costas-returning-to-nbc-for-olympic-coverage-on-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Costas returning to NBC for Olympic coverage on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-118\" alt=\"bobcostas\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/02\/bobcostas.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/02\/bobcostas.jpg 630w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/02\/bobcostas-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><br \/>\nBob Costas will return for NBC&#8217;s coverage of the Winter Olympics on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Costas left coverage of the games after he came down with pink eye that later spread to both eyes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLauer\">@MLauer<\/a> hosts both primetime and late night tonight. Bob returns to host both shows tomorrow night (Monday). <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/iSGK5t2nSR\">pic.twitter.com\/iSGK5t2nSR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBCSportsPR (@NBCSportsPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCSportsPR\/statuses\/435134897036881920\">February 16, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\"><\/script>Costas gave way to Matt Lauer on Tuesday Feb. 11 after being the NBC face of the Olympics since 1992. I am sure there will be a few jokes thrown out but Costas should be back in form as he finishes up the final week of the games from Sochi. In fact he&#8217;s already been practicing for his return.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Bob Costas returned to NBC Olympics studios at IBC in Sochi 2day to prep 2 resume hosting duties Monday night (Feb17) <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/bLgKoHUlP5\">pic.twitter.com\/bLgKoHUlP5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBCSportsPR (@NBCSportsPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCSportsPR\/statuses\/435134502596141056\">February 16, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Costas will return for NBC&#8217;s coverage of the Winter Olympics on Monday. Costas left coverage of the games after he came down with pink eye that later spread to both eyes. .@MLauer hosts both primetime and late night tonight. Bob returns to host both shows tomorrow night (Monday). pic.twitter.com\/iSGK5t2nSR \u2014 NBCSportsPR (@NBCSportsPR) February 16, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"coauthors":[5],"class_list":{"0":"post-810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","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=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":811,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions\/811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}