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I don't remember now what was in my letter, which I'd addressed to the very nonspecific "SportsCenter anchors." I'm sure it was your standard fan mail—"I'm a big fan, I watch every morning, I want to be on ESPN one day." I don't think I asked for a reply, and I definitely didn't ask for signed headshots. More »
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Below is an excerpt from Those Guys Have All The Fun: Inside The World of ESPN, which is finally in paperback so those readers anxious for more Bristol back-biting don't have to carry around the cumbersome hardcover. The new version includes more bitchy anecdotes from Bill Simmons, further details about Tony Kornheiser's on-air insults about Hannah Storm, and, of course, more from Keith Olbermann, who maintains that he didn't treat his one-time co-anchor Suzy Kolber as horribly as most people think. More »
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The Golden Mike Award is...not the biggest award out there. They're handed out by the Radio and Television News Association of Southern California, so if you work in Southern California, you probably have one. Keith Olbermann has 16. More »
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GQ called dibs on the first exclusive excerpt of the gigantic Miller-Shales ESPN oral history, Those Guys Have All The Fun, but we've been given an excerpt of their excerpt just because nobody wants us running any more unapproved excerpts. We'll play along. So read this, then pop over to GQ for the rest. Then follow us for the rest of the week for the wince-worthy stuff. More »
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No, not Keith Olbermann, silly. Me. A.J. Daulerio. Yes, one super-lucky reader who makes an extra special comment on Facebook will get to ditch work and spend a day at Yankee Stadium watching America's most reviled franchise. More »
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Perhaps the unlikeliest pair to sit next to each other at today's Yankee game, Stewart and Olbermann discussed the finer points of...actually, I have no idea what they could possibly have been talking about. [Twitter] More »
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ESPN Executive VP and Editor John Walsh snarks back at Keith Olbermann in today's SportsBusiness Daily, and suddenly the Olbermann-Simmons feud has become one of those great Greek tragedies full of incest and bloodshed and men with stately white beards. More »
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Just so we're clear: The Sports Fella did not get into writing to respond to Keith Olbermann's response to Simmons's response to Olbermann's response to that one column Simmons wrote in crayon. [@sportsguy33] More »
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Wherever you come down in the Keith Olbermann-Bill Simmons blood feud, you can surely agree that the former just drew a helluva line in the sand by calling Simmons "the most uncontrollable, unmanageable talent in the history of ESPN." More »
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Earlier a reader complained that yesterday's Canada-Norway hockey game on MSNBC was bumped to another channel, without warning, so that "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" could begin on time. Here's a programming note: Keith Olbermann is not amused by your lies. More »
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The LA Times mistakenly listed the MTV show in Countdown's time slot, though Olbermann's totally mature and measured reaction made sure viewers turning in to see Jackass were not disappointed. [TV Squad] More »
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Have you heard about this NEW Yankee Stadium? It's just like the old one—only 14 times more expensive. So how do you sell $2,500-a-game tickets? Charge the bargain-basement price of $1,250! More »
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Of all the cockamamie controversies surrounding the Super Bowl ... did two columnists actually criticize sideline reporter Alex Flanagan for quoting F. Scott Fitzgerald? And did Keith Olbermann jump to her defense on his show? More »
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So I'm watching Countdown last night and what should appear during the Oddball segment but this, the video we posted yesterday of the girl vs. the bathroom stall. Although the story took the second spot to a woman and her pet slug (you can tell the election is over, can't you?), kudos nonetheless to Civil Negligence, who may be the first Deadpsin commenter ever to be quoted by Keith Olbermann. Video evidence below.
By the way, apologies are in order to University of Georgia fans. I wrote that the incident occurred at Sanford Stadium, whereas several have pointed out that it appears that it was at a University of Florida game. The young lady being a Gator makes a lot more sense. And so, the campaign to nominate "I fought the stall and the stall won" to the Deadspin Hall of Fame begins. We should also probably nominate the girl. And what the hell, the slug, too. Countdown With Keith Olbermann [Official Site] More »
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Even though Jason Whitlock (and plenty of others) think the re-teaming of Keith Olbermann and Dan Patrick is a colossally bad idea, I'm still hopeful. At the very least, some of the magical glib that made them so good the first time around must still be around, right? Hopefully, the media powerhouse egos can be swept aside for a minute or two and it'll work. More »
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ESPN SportsCenter purists who long for the days of Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann's dry witticism- infused sports highlights should now rejoice at their cubicles until your employer calls security and has you escorted out of the building. More »
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Keith Olbermann seemed genuinely flustered last night when Al Gore took his sweet time taking the stage at Joe Louis Arena to endorse Barack Obama; so much so that he forgot what team Chauncey Billups plays for. Billups was onstage to introduce Gore, and Olbermann had to go to his notes to identify him; at first claiming that he played for the Nuggets. Close ... both cities begin with a D. Come on Keith, you're a former SportsCenter anchor. More »
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Yes, yes, we know: Keith Olbermann isn't exactly a "sports" personality anymore. (Though he's still breaking sports news from time to time.) But Olbermann not only still does plenty of sports — it just doesn't seem like it right now, because the NFL's in the offseason and the politics world, most definitively, isn't — but he's such a large figure in how people consume sports now that he's still pretty towering. More »
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You shouldn't feel bad if you remember when it was kind of cool to watch ESPN; we recall it vividly ourselves. (We will confess to once quoting Kenny Mayne in our daily life. Hey, we were young.) Another guy who used to love the Leader is Grant Farred, who wrote a famous academic paper in 2000 praising the network for raising the level of discourse and intelligence in the sports world. Uh ... he doesn't quite feel the same way anymore. More »
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We like MSNBC/ESPN Radio/NBC/whatever talking head Keith Olbermann, and not just because his presence reminds us of those halcyon days of yesteryear when we actually felt cool for watching "SportsCenter." (God, that seems so strange now.) More »
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With all the hullabaloo around Pete Rose's "admission" yesterday that he "bet on the Reds every night" — a story so overblown that even Katie Couric was talking about it, chatting with beer pong specialist Armen Keteyian — Keith Olbermann, who did the Rose interview along with Dan Patrick on ESPN Radio, chimes in to point out that not only did Pete not say anything new, he was less confessing than he was clarifying. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=244394&view=rss&microfeed=true Here's your little blast for the past today: As difficult as it is to believe that Hootie and the Blowfish were ever considered cool — we're not sure that actually ever happened — it's, these days, just as difficult to comprehend ESPN being, you know, down with the kids. These two unique cultural curiosities intersected in this famous music video, which we suspect you haven't seen in a long, long time. More »
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We've always kind of suspected that Keith Olbermann is a Deadspin reader, and now we have proof. Because of men like Olbermann, the immortal line "You're with me, leather" shall never die. Of course it was back on April 11 when we brought you the story of ESPN alpha-anchor Chris Berman, who allegedly used that line to pick up a girl in a Scottsdale, Ariz. bar, according to eyewitnesses. The first to pick up on our story and use "You're with me, leather," on the airwaves was Tony Kornheiser, on his radio show, two days later. More »
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We'll confess a slight affection for Keith Olbermann, though we sometimes think this conversation happens in his head every day: More »
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Well, it's the day after Michael Irvin's endless string of mea culpas following his arrest on Friday, and if Irvin's appearances had anything in common, it was their high proportion of "mea" to "culpa." Let's look back at Irvin's trip through the ESPN empire: More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=139854&view=rss&microfeed=true • Not only is Larry Brown already insulting Stephon Marbury, but now former Knicks prez Dave Checketts wants to get into hockey. In St. Louis, even. [TrueHoop] More »
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Legitimate question: Is MSNBC Serious Journalist Anchor Keith Olbermann crazy? We're not really kidding. Last week, ESPN announced that Olbermann, after eight years away from the network, will return to the Worldwide Bleeder to host a show on ESPN Radio. We suppose, in a certain way, this makes sense: Olbermann is so professionally bipolar that it was only a matter of time until he set himself on fire enough to return to ESPN. More »
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