Inside Biography
- 1 Who is Buster Olney?
- 2 Age, Parents, Siblings, Family, Ethnicity, Nationality
- 3 Buster Olney: Education, School/College University
- 4 Buster Olney: Professional Life, Career
- 5 Buster Olney: Awards, Nominations
- 6 Buster Olney: Net Worth, Salary, Income
- 7 Buster Olney: Rumors and Controversy/Scandal
- 8 Body Measurements: Height, Weight, Body Size
- 9 Social Media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.
Who is Buster Olney?
Robert Stanbury “Buster” Olney III 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. Buster is also a regular analyst for the ESPN’s Baseball Tonight, and hosts ESPN’s Baseball Tonight daily podcast..
Age, Parents, Siblings, Family, Ethnicity, Nationality
Buster Olney is 55 years old. He was born on February 17, 1964, in Washington, D.C. He belongs to American nationality. There is no information about his parents, siblings, and ethnicity.
Buster Olney: Education, School/College University
Buster Olney was educated at Northfield Mount Hermon School and Vanderbilt University. There is no further information about his Education, School/College University.
Buster Olney: Professional Life, Career
In 1989, Olney began covering baseball as the Nashville Banner‘s beat reporter assigned to the Triple-A Nashville Sounds. At David, Lipscomb University, he formed a close relationship with the legendary Don Meyer, Head Coach of the men’s basketball program. He worked at the San Diego Union-Tribune and Baltimore Sun.
In 1997, he arrived at the Times and in his first year won an Associated Press award. Olney almost had a minor crisis with a Yankee prospect at the time known more for his football play, Deion Sanders. Buster Olney had attempted to do a piece on Sanders but was blown off. In return, Olney wrote what he called later in his career a harsh piece on Sanders. Sanders responds to Olney by writing on a baseball “Keep writing like that your whole life and you’ll always be a loser.”
Olney published The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty in 2004, ISBN 0-06-051506-6, a nonfiction account of the Yankees’ run of championships in the 1990s. The book also considered why the team vanished to the Arizona Diamondbacks in the 2001 World Series and why it didn’t score a championship between 2001 and 2003. After all, leaving the Times, Olney has become a constant on the ESPN family of networks.
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 attended college basketball coach in 2010. In 2013, Olney conveyed 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.
Buster Olney: Awards, Nominations
In 1997, he arrived at the Times and in his first year won an Associated Press award, there is no information that he has received many awards and nominations.
Buster Olney: Net Worth, Salary, Income
Buster Olney has an estimated net worth of $3 million. Currently, We don’t have enough information on Monthly/Yearly Salary, etc.
Buster Olney: Rumors and Controversy/Scandal
Though being popular, Buster has managed to stay away from rumors and controversies.
Body Measurements: Height, Weight, Body Size
Buster Olney is Neuroticism in nature. His eyes are dark brown in color and his hair is brown in color. There is no more information about his body measurements.
Buster Olney is active in social media. He has over 24.6k followers on Facebook and over 1.34 million followers on Twitter. He is not active on Instagram.
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