Bob and Jill buy $10 mil Manhattan condo

From the Pueblo Chieftain, whatever that is:

Sportscaster Bob Costas and his wife, Jill, have agreed to pay about $10 million for an apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

The three-bedroom, 3,500-square-foot apartment's building, due to open this summer, includes a private 20-seat theater, wine cellars, room service with a private chef and a health club with a pool. Other celebrity buyers include actor Denzel Washington, musician Sting and race-car driver Jeff Gordon.

Last week, developers Arthur and William Zeckendorf announced they had sold all of the building’s 202 units, 15 of them for more than $20 million, including an eight-bedroom penthouse to hedge-fund executive Daniel Loeb for $45 million.

The sportscaster, 55 years old, lives in New York and has covered football, baseball and several Olympic Games for NBC Sports. He also hosts HBO’s ‘‘Costas Now’’ and has served as a regular substitute anchor on CNN’s ‘‘Larry King Live.’’

Bob could replace Don Imus?!?

An interesting rumor was noted on ESPN2's Cold Pizza this morning: CBS could hire Bob Costas as its new morning radio host to replace Don Imus.

Now that would be something. Costas is smart, knowledgeable about a wide variety of subjects, and fully capable of taking on issues like race and sex without resorting to the kind of crass language that got Imus fired.

There's one huge problem, of course, which Cold Pizza noted: Costas probably wouldn't take the job. He's already got an HBO show in which he has the freedom to explore whatever issue he finds interesting, he's the host of NBC's prime time football coverage and its Olympics coverage, which means he's reaching an enormous audience, and he probably doesn't want to have to wake up at 5 o'clock every morning.

So it's probably never going to happen, although I'm guessing I speak for just about every sports fan when I say the day Costas gets a morning talk radio show is the day I start listening to talk radio every morning.