Bob Costas

An article in yesterday's Sun about Greg Kinnear replacing Bob Costas as host of NBC's "Later" incorrectly listed the broadcast time of the show. "Later" appears on WMAR, Channel 2, beginning at 2:35 a.m.The Sun regrets the errors.

BASEketball 7 p.m. [Fuse] To be honest, I think I've seen about 10 minutes of this movie. But it stars the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, along with Yasmine Bleeth, Jenny McCarthy, Ernest Borgnine and Robert Vaughn. It features a host of sportscasters, including Bob Costas and Al Michaels. And one of the few printable quotes from the movie at IMDb.com: "I'm telling you, it's jobs. We got to get jobs. Then we get the khakis. Then we get the chicks."

NBC couldn't have cooked up a better ratings-grabber if it had brought in Jeff Gillooly to arrange yet another whack-a-mole with an Olympic figure skater. There's been some transcendent camera work this week, particularly with the downhill skiing and speed skating, along with dramatic competition, and lovely vistas on all three of the network's channels, which include CNBC and MSNBC on cable. But the network has clearly recognized that the murky stew of sport, pageant and commerce has been transformed into a glorious bouillabaisse with a single ingredient: scandal on ice. Ratings for the first six days of the Winter Olympics on NBC proper were nearly 20 percent above those registered by CBS during the Nagano games four years ago. More than 150 million Americans have tuned in since the opening ceremonies.

1 Opening: in New York: The Yankees play their first regular-season game in their new ballpark (12:30 p.m., MLB), and Bob Costas will be on hand to wax elegiac. 2 Get the signal?: The PGA Tour's Verizon Heritage event (3 p.m., Golf) is quite distracting with that guy walking the course asking, "Can you hear me now?" 3 Wild, wild West: Versus carries three games from the NHL Western Conference playoffs, starting at 7 p.m. 4 Speedy night: Up late? The Speed channel has coverage of practice for Formula One's Chinese Grand Prix at 2 a.m. But an hour later, they feel like driving again.

NBC yesterday tapped Bob Costas as its lead play-by-play announcer on NBA telecasts, succeeding Marv Albert, who was fired after his conviction last month on charges that he assaulted a woman with whom he had had a long affair.Costas, the prime-time anchor of NBC's Olympic coverage, as ** well as its lead voice on baseball telecasts, will be joined by former Detroit Pistons great Isiah Thomas, who last week resigned as part-owner and general manager of the Toronto Raptors.When NBC received the rights to NBA telecasts in 1990, the network's plan was for Costas to be the lead announcer with Albert serving as the No. 2, but Costas asked instead to work as the studio host, a role he remained in until earlier this year, when he took six months off.Hannah Storm, who filled in for Costas during his sabbatical, will continue as the studio host.

Whatever else you say about ESPN's first Monday night telecast of the regular season, it was obvious how much better a rapport Tony Kornheiser has with Ron Jaworski than he did with Joe Theismann. Yes, they yukked it up, but it didn't get in the way of Jaworski's points about the game, which he made without going on and on like the fellow in that chair last year. Earlier in the weekend: Dan Marino greeted the newest member of The NFL Today cast, Bill Cowher, by putting on a "spit shield" to protect him should the former coach launch into the kind of intense monologue that typified his sideline style.

Scores of names from the sports and TV arenas gathered Tuesday night on board the Royal Caribbean's spectacular new Majesty of the Seas, docked in New York, for a gala benefit for the U.S. Olympic team heading to Barcelona this summer.The black-tie bash, which included a cocktail reception, dinner and dancing, also featured a Vegas-style stage show, hosted by Bob Costas and featuring comedian Jerry Seinfeld, both stars of their own NBC shows. (NBC, need we tell you, is the network televising the Barcelona Games.

Chances are you've never seen one of his films, and chances are you never will, but that doesn't make filmmaker Henry Jaglom any less intriguing.Jaglom makes films that he loves, that his actors love (probably because he has developed a reputation as an auteur's auteur) and that his audiences find odd. All of which seems fine with Jaglom, as "Who Is Henry Jaglom?" shows.H. Alex Rubin and Jeremy Workman's documentary, airing as part of the ever-unpredicable independent film showcase "P.O.V."

DREAM TEAM UPDATE: Bowing to international pressure and playing with 50-pound weight chained to each ankle, USA edges Germany 627-14. Resident hoodlum Charles Barkley is restrained from charging into the stands after a nun, whom Barkley accused of "praying for the other team." Dreamers' next opponent: Boy Scout Troop 155, Athens, Ga.NOW IT CAN BE TOLD: Check of birth records confirms that tiny NBC studio host Bob Costas is a distant relative of Sneezy, and attended same woodland elementary school as Happy, Grumpy and Doc.JUST HOW HOT WAS IT?

NBC Sports has gained an unlikely but familiar presence for its broadcast of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City: Jim McKay, the Baltimore-based commentator known best for leading a dozen Olympic broadcasts on ABC dating back four decades. McKay, 79, said he's excited at the thought of joining NBC's Bob Costas next year to narrate profiles of Olympic athletes and offer commentary on the day's events. But it will be quite a change to see himself on the Peacock Network, he acknowledged.