Keith Olbermann doesn't seem to remember Chauncey Billups (video)

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Keith Olbermann Doesn't Have Much Time For Sports These Days
Published 6/17/2008 by Awful Announcing- (noreply@blogger.com) at Awful Announcing
I always dread posting about Keith Olbermann because of the Politics debate that ensues, but hopefully we can all just laugh at him for this one. You'd think that someone who was once an ESPN Sports Center anchor and a current Sports analyst on NBC (even though it's Football) might know where a Basketball playerlike Chauncey Billups plays, but alas he does not. ...

Keith Olbermann Has No Idea Who Chauncey Billups Is
Published 6/17/2008 by Brett Edwards at FanHouse
Filed under: Pistons, NBA Gossip, NBA Media Watch, NBA VideosKeith Olbermann is now the poster boy for left wing political news commentary, via his Countdown show which airs nightly on MSNBC. But it didn't used to be that way. Olbermann spent over 20 years as a sports broadcaster, including five as an anchor on ESPN's SportsCenter. So it was a little surprising when, as they showed Chauncey Billups at the Gore-Obama rally in Michigan last night, Olbermann went flipping through his notes to try to figure out what team Billups plays for. ...

You Know You’re Getting Old When Olbermann Can’t Even Remember Athletes
Published 6/17/2008 by Brinson at Brahsome - Care To Get Nice?
Sportscenter has been played out for a while, but it’s still important, because it’s monopolizing and whatnot. And the Big Show, with Keith Olbermann and Dan Patrick, has long since been gone. But that doesn’t change the fact that watching Olbermann fumble through the team that Chauncey Billups plays for is any less painful. ...

Keith Olbermann Is Not Much Of A Pistons Fan [Missing The Layup]
Published 6/17/2008 by Rick Chandler at Deadspin
Keith Olbermann seemed genuinely flustered last night when Al Gore took his sweet time taking the stage at Joe Louis Arena to endorse Barack Obama; so much so that he forgot what team Chauncey Billups plays for. Billups was onstage to introduce Gore, and Olbermann had ...

Does Olbermann Know Something We Don't?
Published 6/17/2008 at The Sporting Blog
Okay, what I'm about to do is a little weird, since I'm the one who alerted Brian to increasingly infamous Keith Olbermann gaff . It's true, television's Great Left Hope stumbled at best, and at worst didn't know Chauncey Billups plays for the Pistons. But I've yet to hear anyone point out that saying Billups is a Nugget is both totally OG and more forward-thinking than you know. For one, he was once a Nugget. Way before most people knew who Chauncey was. Any idiot could tell you that Billups is now a Piston, but to have known of him when he was a draft bust broken by Pitino and shipped back to his home state of ...

Keith Olbermann Has Forgotten All About Sports
Published 6/17/2008 at FanIQ Blog
You may just recall that Keith Olbermann was a sportscaster for 20 years and spent 5 of those years as an anchor at ESPN before moving to MSNBC. And he did those spots on Monday Night Football to boot. But apparently Olbermann now follows sports about as closely as I ...

Keith Olbermann Emails Us, Provides the Final, Definitive Word on His Billups Mishap
Published 6/19/2008 at The Sporting Blog
On June 16, Keith Olbermann accidentally called Chauncey Billups a Denver Nugget (see video above). The following evening, he admitted his error, but altered events so they involved the long-defunct Denver Ambrose Jellymakers, of the long-defunct AAU. I read this as a snide dismissal of anyone trying to paint his misstep as ignorance.