in 2004, olney published "the last night of the yankee dynasty", , a nonfiction account of the yankees' run of championships in the 1990s. the book also considered why the team lost to the arizona diamondbacks in the 2001 world series and why it didn't win a championship between 2001 and 2003. since leaving the "times", olney has become a constant on the espn family of networks.