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Kolesar

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2. Nate's a brain and quite well spoken

Sat Jul 20, 2013, 07:14 AM

Jul 2013

They are among the most famous words ever uttered on ESPN's Bristol campus:
"He didn't burn bridges here," ESPN vice president of corporate communications Mike Soltys famously once told USA Today about Keith Olbermann. "He napalmed them."
Well, the bridge over the River Keith has been reconstructed. On Wednesday ESPN announced that Olbermann, who left the network in 1997 because of the increasing acrimony between the anchor and management, will return to the company to host a one-hour late-night program airing Monday through Friday on ESPN2 at 11 p.m. ET from ABC's Times Square studios in New York City. The show will be titled Olbermann and debuts Aug. 26. Olbermann will also appear on other ESPN platforms and programs, and likely write for ESPN.com at some point. He is signed with ESPN for two years.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/more/news/20130717/keith-olbermann-returns-to-espn/?xid=ob_siwriters

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Holy crap. That's gonna be awesome. nt msanthrope Jul 2013 #1

Nate's a brain and quite well spoken Kolesar Jul 2013 #2

KO is going to stay in NYC & broadcast his show there instead of moving back to Bristol. Are_grits_groceries Jul 2013 #3

Interesting move. Sounds like he's bored with political analysis.... I don't blame him! reformist2 Jul 2013 #4

He is still going to do election analysis for ABC. Are_grits_groceries Jul 2013 #5

In election years. Probably meaning 2016. reformist2 Jul 2013 #6

Hopefully this means his site will be uncoupled from the NYT site davidpdx Jul 2013 #7