Editing Bob Costas (section)

==Early life and education==
Costas is the son of a [[Greeks|Greek]] father, John George Costas, and an Irish mother, Jayne Costas (née Quinlan). He grew up in [[Commack, New York]], and attended [[Commack School District|Commack High School South]].<ref name="Suffolk Sports HOF">{{cite web |last1=Vaccaro |first1=Chris |title=Costas, Bob |url=https://www.suffolksportshof.com/bobcostas/ |publisher=[[Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame]] |access-date=21 March 2023 |date=2 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Buchner |first1=Bill |title=Legendary Sportscaster Bob Costas Remembers His Long Island Childhood |url=https://www.wshu.org/news/2019-05-20/legendary-sportscaster-bob-costas-remembers-his-long-island-childhood |access-date=21 March 2023 |work=[[WSHU-FM]] |date=20 May 2019 |language=en}}</ref>

He attended the [[S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications]] at [[Syracuse University]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Bob Costas: 50 Forward: Newhouse School Syracuse University |url=https://50forward.syr.edu/honoree/bob-costas/ |access-date=21 March 2023}}</ref> but dropped out in 1974.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Powell |first=William |date=2013-07-19 |title=Q&A: A Conversation With Bob Costas |url=https://www.stlmag.com/St-Louis-Magazine/August-2013/Q-A-A-Conversation-With-Bob-Costas/ |access-date=2023-07-18 |website=www.stlmag.com |language=en-us}}</ref> Costas got his first radio experience as a freshman at [[WAER]], a student run radio station.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Taaffe |first=William |title=The Voices from Syracuse |url=https://vault.si.com/vault/1984/03/12/the-voices-from-syracuse |access-date=21 March 2023 |magazine=[[Sports Illustrated]] |volume=60 |issue=11 |date=March 12, 1984}}</ref><ref name="Sportscaster U"/><ref name="WAER"/> In the mid-1980s, he established the Robert Costas Scholarship at the Newhouse School, of which the first recipient was [[Mike Tirico]] in 1987.<ref name="costas scholar">{{cite news |last1=Dabbundo |first1=Anthony |title=NBC broadcaster, Syracuse University alumnus Mike Tirico receives sports media award |url=https://dailyorange.com/2017/11/nbc-broadcaster-syracuse-university-alumnus-mike-tirico-receives-sports-media-award/ |access-date=23 December 2021 |work=[[The Daily Orange]] |date=15 November 2017}}</ref>