12 Facts About Buster Olney

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Buster Olney previously covered the New York Giants and New York Yankees for The New York Times.

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Buster Olney is a regular analyst for the ESPN's television program Baseball Tonight and hosts ESPN's Baseball Tonight daily podcast.

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Buster Olney was educated at Northfield Mount Hermon School in Gill, Massachusetts, and Vanderbilt University, where he majored in history.

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Buster Olney later worked at the San Diego Union-Tribune and The Baltimore Sun.

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Buster Olney arrived at the New York Times in 1997 and in his first year won an Associated Press award.

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Buster Olney almost had a minor confrontation with a Yankee prospect at the time known more for his football play, Deion Sanders.

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Buster Olney had attempted to do a piece on Sanders, but was blown off.

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In return, Buster Olney wrote what he called later in his career an unflattering piece on Sanders.

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In 2004, Buster Olney published The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty,.

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Since leaving the Times, Buster Olney has become a constant on the ESPN family of networks.

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In 2010, Buster Olney wrote How Lucky You Can Be: The Story of Coach Don Meyer, an account of how a car crash and cancer diagnosis affected the life of the highly accomplished college basketball coach.

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In 2013, Buster Olney delivered the May commencement speech at Northern State University, where Meyer coached until 2010, and was still a member of the faculty until his death on May 18,2014.