Irish-Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi ushered in a new era of global communications, sending the first radio transmission across the Atlantic Ocean on this day in history, Dec. 12, 1901. The ...
“Well,” Bob Costas says, “it started out being about tracking his bets.” The son of “an inveterate gambler,” the type who had bookies pay house calls to the family’s Long Island home, it was young Bob ...