olney grew up on a dairy farm in randolph center, vermont, which came in handy when he served as the "cow insider" for mike greenberg's milking of a cow on "mike and mike in the morning" on june 21, 2007. he was educated at northfield mount hermon school and vanderbilt university, where he majored in history. as a child buster was an avid baseball fan. at age 8, he developed an affinity for the los angeles dodgers after reading a book about sandy koufax. buster would later attribute his fanship as a reason for his journalistic career.