Keith Olbermann

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  • Why the World Series is going down the tubes (literally)

    Greedy, shortsighted owners and one-dimensional teams playing bad baseball add up to an event that nobody cares about.
  • Once again, baseball triumphs over humanity

    Bud Selig and his goons celebrate the Fall Classic by cracking down on a Giants pitcher's tribute to a fallen friend.
  • Dusty's drama, the Angels' angst

    Will the Curse of Keane strike the Giants? Will the Angels' longtime demon torment them once again? Play ball!
  • The Big Showalter

    After a sudden end to the Yankees' season, George Steinbrenner is not the type to act rationally when a situation calls for panic.
  • Bill Bennett knows if you've been bad or good

    Will Al Gore be the latest addition to his list of un-Americans?
  • Tell me something I don't know

    Violent fans, pot-smoking players -- why do the sports media seem shocked by the obvious and predictable?
  • Shoney's, terrorism and the price of vigilance

    Anyone might overreact to a potential terror threat -- I almost did last year. But we should watch out for ethnic scapegoating, too, as we try to protect the nation from harm.
  • An ill wind

    Nature provided New Yorkers with its own eerie echoes of 9/11, as gusts forced the closing of an area around AOL Time Warner's new twin towers.
  • Don't watch, don't listen

    Whether it's the "Opie & Anthony" sex-in-church caper or a baseball-strike reporting blooper on national TV, when mistakes are made in broadcasting, nobody gets blamed.
  • Optimism in baseball talks

    In five Wednesday meetings, the last ending Thursday morning, owners and players inched closer to an agreement. Stay tuned.
  • Olbermann Extra

    Optimism flags as hard-line owners refuse to compromise on key issue.
  • A diary of baseball's coming crunch time

    Posturing owners! Angry bankers! Scary lawyers! Rats who gnaw the eyes out first! A day by day guide to the last weeks of the labor war.
  • Conspiracy Theory

    An ominous cosmic force is working for the Harlem Little League team. Or against it. But definitely against the Florida State University football team.
  • Bobby Bowden's sick humor

    Defenders say the FSU coach borrowed Todd Beamer's phrase "Let's Roll" with the greatest respect. So then why did he make a joke about it with reporters?
  • More ways to misuse 9/11

    When a college football team makes "Let's Roll" its slogan, is it patriotism or profiteering?
  • Jim Bowden must go

    Comparing Players' Association head Donald Fehr to the Sept. 11 hijackers degrades the memory of the victims, and baseball too.
  • Two more teams vote against baseball strike deadline

    Now the number of teams whose players have reservations about a strike is up to three. Is there a palace coup in the making?
  • Learning from Bill Buckner

    The Red Sox veteran accepted responsibility for his 1986 World Series gaffe, and he lives with a kind of grace now. Pete Rose and Ann Coulter, listen up.
  • A strike against the baseball strike?

    The players of one small-market team have voted against authorizing a strike deadline.
  • How to remember Sept. 11 -- and how not to

    Salon's new columnist looks at what the upcoming baseball strike and "Sex and the City" tell us about the looming one-year anniversary.
  • Baseball ruins everything it touches

    Only this messed-up ex-national pastime could manage to take its premier fan event, the first genuinely exciting All-Star Game in years, and abandon it without an outcome.
  • Blue Glow

    Salon's TV picks for Weekend, Aug. 4-6, 2000
  • Game over

    Keith Olbermann is hanging up his completely weird news gig and returning to the world of sports broadcasting. Now what the hell was that all about?
  • Monica 2: This time, it's for the money

    It's a very, very merry Testimoniday in punditland, as the talking heads pick over what's left of the Bill-Monica-Ken scandal.
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