Profile of Keith Olbermann in New Yorker this week

Michelle Hiskey · Jun 17, 2008

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/23/080623fa_fact_boyer

In 1992, Olbermann joined ESPN, where his erudite, wise-guy style flowered into an artful, full-blown satire of the cliché-ridden form: “That’s a six-four-three double play if you’re scoring at home. Or if you’re by yourself.”
Olbermann’s tenure at ESPN was characteristically contentious. One of his co-anchors, Suzy Kolber, has said that Olbermann was sometimes so overbearing that she would lock herself in the bathroom and cry. Another colleague, Mike Soltys, has said that when Olbermann left the network, in 1997, “he didn’t burn bridges here—he napalmed them.”
Olbermann was glad enough to be leaving the grind of full-time sportscasting behind. His new job brought him out of the toy department and into the news side of broadcasting....
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Moderator1 · Jun 17, 2008

Any bets on where the writer got that "out of the toy department" line - maybe from KO his own self?

WaylonJennings · Jun 17, 2008

Right, because there is no "news" on the sports side.

Pretentious pricks.

Ever heard of Roger Angell?

P.S. Olbermann's byline still occasionally shows up in SABR publications. That, along with his work with Dan Patrick on ESPN radio the last couple of years, before the blockbuster Patrick-for-Reilly trade, makes me doubt that Olbermann was diminishing his sports background.

spnited · Jun 17, 2008

Pretentious prick ... I assume you're referring to Olbermann

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