I never left ESPN, I just had a lot of vacation time! (Keith Olbermann)

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I never left ESPN, I just had a lot of vacation time! (Keith Olbermann)


SECAUCUS - So maybe you heard. I’m going back to ESPN.

Not full-time, mind you. Countdown will continue. But after eight years of what some might call estrangement (and others might call thermonuclear conflict), I will be joining my old SportsCenter tag-team partner Dan Patrick one hour a week on his ESPN Radio Show.

See? You can rebuild burned bridges. Or, in my case, a burned river.

Let me make it clear (as I wrote nearly three years ago in my old Salon column ) that I assume full responsibility for the unpleasantness. In retrospect, I was entitled to my opinions about the place, but I’m not exactly sure where I got the impression that every one of them needed to be expressed publicly. This time, I’m following a new policy: I’m going to always remember to let ESPN run ESPN.

A lot of folks who read or hear of this will focus on the interregnum (which, showing again that time and fate are ironic masters, became public exactly eight years ago this Thursday), and I not only understand that, but I’m willing to address it as needs be. But I’m focused on the sheer unadulterated joy of getting the privilege of working with my old buddy Dan on a regular basis.

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[tallahasseedem]

1. Vacation time...

Yeah right. I love Keith, but he acted like an ass there and burned alot of bridges when he left.

[indepat]

5. Hopefully Keith will not feel oppressed this time and thereby feel no need

to burn bridges.

[BeyondThePale]

2. Keith and Dan on sportscenter

was the finest hour on TV--dare I say, "en fuego"

[redqueen]

3. Shouldn't this be in the Sports forum?

:shrug:

[Puregonzo1188]

4. Exactly what

happened with Keith at ESPN?

[newyawker99]

8. Hi Puregonzo1188!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Tim4319]

6. Keith and Dan where reasons I really started watching ESPN.

Glad to see them back together, albeit for an hour a week.

[Mojambo]

7. Shouldn't be a problem now that he has a real media voice of his own. n/t

[Johonny]

9. Hmm...

I didn't realize liberals were allowed on ESPN radio. Well I guess Tony Kornhizer is kinda liberal. But Cowheard, Patrick and "Dribble" are hard to listen too on anything "off topic".

[SoCalDem]

10. If NBC owns ESPN, Keith might have been coerced to 're-join'

as part of his current/new contract? :shrug: