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(17,111 posts) Sat Jul 20, 2013, 02:31 AM Jul 2013

Nate Silver Leaving New York Times For ESPN, Keith Olbermann's Show

New York Times media writer Brian Stelter has broken a big bit of news on this Friday night: Nate Silver, sabermetrician and electoral seer, is leaving the Times and heading to ESPN. He's taking FiveThirtyEight with him, too. And yet that's not the juiciest bit.

Stelter also reports that Silver will "most likely be a regular contributor" to Keith Olbermann's new ESPN2 show, due to debut before August is through, and that he will have "a role" with ABC News "in political years."

Silver's time as a full-time baseball analyst was largely over when he joined the Times in 2010, but he wrote for Baseball Prospectus from 2003 to 2009, developing the PECOTA player projection system while with the publication.
http://deadspin.com/nate-silver-leaving-new-york-times-for-espn-keith-olbe-844764269

Silver ought to liven it up and bring people with him.
This will give KO's show a real boost.

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Nate Silver Leaving New York Times For ESPN, Keith Olbermann's Show (Original Post) Are_grits_groceries Jul 2013 OP

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

msanthrope

(37,549 posts)

1. Holy crap. That's gonna be awesome. nt

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Sat Jul 20, 2013, 02:34 AM

Jul 2013

Kolesar

(31,182 posts)

2. Nate's a brain and quite well spoken

Reply to msanthrope (Reply #1)

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

Are_grits_groceries

(17,111 posts)

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

Reply to Kolesar (Reply #2)

Sat Jul 20, 2013, 07:17 AM

Jul 2013

That will surely help the rest of ESPN.
He was great, but I imagine most were on pins and needles with him around somewhere.
Suzy Kolber was probably getting ready to panhandle if she had to. He was especially hard on her.