Buster Olney
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Robert Stanbury "Buster" Olney III (born February 17, 1964) is an American columnist for ESPN: The Magazine, ESPN.com, and covered the New York Giants and New York Yankees for The New York Times.
He is also a regular analyst for the ESPN's Baseball Tonight.
He also hosts ESPN's Baseball Tonight daily podcast.
Early life and education
Olney was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up on a dairy farm in Randolph Center, Vermont. He was educated at Northfield Mount Hermon School in Gill, Massachusetts, and Vanderbilt University, where he majored in history. As a child Olney was an avid baseball fan. At age eight, he developed an affinity for the Los Angeles Dodgers after reading a book about Sandy Koufax. Olney would later attribute his fanship as a reason for his journalistic career.
Personal life
Olney resides in Yorktown Heights, New York, with his wife, Lisa.
Journalism career
Olney began covering baseball in 1989 as the Nashville Banner's beat reporter assigned to the Triple-A Nashville Sounds. He had a close friendship with Don Meyer, the head coach of David Lipscomb University's men's basketball program, while in Nashville. He later worked at the San Diego Union-Tribune and The Baltimore Sun. He first appeared at the New York Times in 1997 and was named in Associated Press honor for his first year.
The Sounds hosted the Columbus Clippers, the New York Yankees' AAA affiliate at the time, during one of his first stints in Nashville. Deion Sanders, a football player at the time, had a minor altercation with him. Olney had intended to do a piece on Sanders but it was turned down. Olney wrote an unflattering piece on Sanders later in his career. Sanders told Olney, "Keep writing like this your entire life or you'll always be a loser."
ISBN 0-06-051506-6, a nonfiction story about the Yankees' appearance in the 1990s, written in 2004. The book also discussed why the team lost to the Arizona Diamondbacks in the 2001 World Series and why it didn't win a championship between 2001 and 2003. Olney has been a fixture on the ESPN family of networks since leaving the Times.
Coach Don Meyer's book How Lucky You Can Be, an account of how a car crash and cancer diagnosis affected the life of the highly respected college basketball coach. Olney delivered the commencement address at Northern State University in 2013, where Meyer taught until 2010 and was still a member of the faculty until his death on May 18, 2014.