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Keith Theodore Olbermann (; born January 27, 1959) is an American sports and political commentator and writer. Recently, he hosted a later afternoon show on ESPN2 and TSN2 called ''Olbermann'',〔 from July 2013 until July 2015 as well as being the studio host of TBS's Major League Baseball postseason coverage. Previously, he was the chief news officer of the Current TV network and the host of the Current TV weeknight political commentary program, ''Countdown with Keith Olbermann'', until March 30, 2012, a program he hosted with the same title and a similar format on MSNBC from March 2003 to January 2011.〔〔 During his time at MSNBC, Olbermann established a niche in cable news commentary, gaining note for his pointed criticism of right-wing or conservative politicians and public figures.〔〔〔〔〔 Though he has frequently been described as a "liberal," he has resisted being labelled politically, stating, "I'm not a liberal. I'm an American."〔 Olbermann spent the first twenty years of his career in sports journalism. He was a sports correspondent for CNN and for local TV and radio stations in the 1980s, winning the ''Best Sportscaster'' award from the California Associated Press three times. He co-hosted ESPN's ''SportsCenter'' from 1992 to 1997. From 1998 to 2001, he was a producer and anchor for Fox Sports Net and a host for Fox Sports' coverage of Major League Baseball. From 2013 to 2015, Olbermann returned to ESPN to host a late-night show, Olbermann. ==Early life== Olbermann was born January 27, 1959, in New York City, to Marie Katherine (née Charbonier),〔 a preschool teacher, and Theodore Olbermann, a commercial architect.〔 He is of German ancestry.〔 He has one younger sister, Jenna, who was born in 1968.〔 Olbermann grew up in a Unitarian household〔 in the town of Hastings-on-Hudson〔 in Westchester County, and attended Hackley School〔〔 in nearby Tarrytown. Olbermann became a devoted fan of baseball at a young age, a love he inherited from his mother, who was a lifelong New York Yankees fan.〔 As a teenager, he often wrote about baseball card-collecting and appeared in many sports card-collecting periodicals of the mid 1970s. He is also referenced in ''Sports Collectors Bible'', a 1979 book by Bert Sugar, which is considered one of the important early books for trading card collectors.〔 While at Hackley, Olbermann began his broadcasting career as a play-by-play announcer for WHTR. After graduating from Hackley in 1975, Olbermann enrolled at Cornell University at the age of 16.〔 At college, Olbermann served as sports director for WVBR, a student-run commercial radio station in Ithaca.〔 Olbermann graduated from Cornell's School of Agriculture and Life Sciences in 1979 with a BS in communication.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://cals.cornell.edu/academics/departments-majors/ )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Keith Olbermann」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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