ST. LOUIS (Bob Costas Benefit PR) - Tickets still remain for the 18th Annual Bob Costas Benefit for SSM Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center on Saturday, April 1, at 7:30 p.m. at the Fox Theatre.
Grammy Award-winning artist Tim McGraw will make a special stop in St. Louis to perform an acoustic set for the annual black tie-optional event. McGraw will release his second greatest hits album March 28 - Tim McGraw Reflected: Hits Vol 2 - and will take time out of his schedule to participate in the event, to which all proceeds will benefit the Bob Costas Cancer Center at Cardinal Glennon.
McGraw will be preceded by Bob Saget, best known for his role in the ABC sitcom Full House and as host of the TV home video show America's Funniest Home Videos, who will fill the Fox Theatre with laughter throughout the night.
McGraw graciously accepted the opportunity to stand in for Sheryl Crow, who was originally scheduled to perform but canceled her appearance and spring tour to undergo surgery for breast cancer.
Tickets are now on sale and may be purchased by calling the Development Office at Cardinal Glennon at 314-577-5605 or after March 24 by calling MetroTix at 314-534-1111. Tickets are $100, $75, $50 and $35.
For more than 40 years, Cardinal Glennon has made a mission of caring for children, regardless of their medical condition or social, religious, ethnic or economic backgrounds. The Bob Costas Cancer Center is a vital part of Cardinal Glennon; with a four-bed bone marrow/stem cell transplant unit, research facilities at the Pediatric Research Institute, the St. Louis Cord Blood Bank and Day Hospital.
The Bob Costas Cancer Center was named to honor Bob Costas for his dedication to the children of St. Louis and beyond. Through Costas' efforts more than $10 million has been raised to deliver some of the most advanced medical care available anywhere in the world.
Bob Costas has been one of the most valuable assets at NBC since he joined the network in 1979. He has hosted or called just about every major sporting event, including the Olympics, the Super Bowl, the World Series and the NBA finals. He is perhaps most identified with the Olympics and baseball. His voice is well known as NBC's primetime host of the Olympics in Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996, Sydney, Australia 2000, Salt Lake City 2002, Athens Greece 2004 and Torino, Italy 2006.
Costas has won 16 Emmy Awards; 13 as outstanding sports broadcaster, two for writing, one for his late night interview show 'Later...With Bob Costas' and one for his play-by-play broadcasts of the 1997 World Series. In February 2001, HBO launched 'On the Record' with Bob Costas, a weekly, hour-long program of issues, interviews and commentary.
The long-running 'Inside The NFL' welcomed Bob in 2002. On 'Inside The NFL' he teams with Dan Marino, Chris Collinsworth, and Cris Carter, to form a lively and popular team. Costas is also a frequent contributor to NBC news, as a reporter and interviewer on the Today Show and other network programs.
