Will Leitch

Other potential shows:

*** Watching Hemingway preen on the battlefield.
*** Anything involving woodworking.
*** Why Patton was full of shit.

Ha. I still have my shelf full of column compilations! We could do a whole show just about his column about how you should never be friends with your doctor. (He has a great bit about, after watching the guy struggle changing a tire on vacation, he would never trust him to take his blood pressure.)

Leitch: Uh, I think I just caught myself rooting for Bill Belichick?

For @theathletic.com, I wrote about looking for order in chaos, trying to have faith in crumbling institutions, and of course Bill Belichick. www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...

You're still right.

I make no claim to any particular expertise in this regard, but Good Things and Good People beating Bad People and Bad Things feels like the sort of thing you want to get excited about and the sort of thing definitely worth repeating.

It is a cool night to be in New York City. (Though most are, it should be said.)

Second—and final, I think—NYC marathon completed. Just an experience like nothing else. If you happen to see me today, please be somewhat careful; if you even slightly bump into me I may shatter into millions of pieces.

YouTube video by Tj dembski Werewolf Bar Mitzvah - FULL SONG

You really need the full song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6V2...

YouTube video by 30 Rock Official Werewolf Bar Mitzvah | 30 Rock

Every Halloween, this song just plays on repeat in my brain all day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gCj...

Of all the great things about Will Klein, by the way, this Mattoonian must point out his wife is a Mattoon High School graduate. They both went to Eastern Illinois University together; she got her law degree from SLU. And now Sandy Koufax is congratulating him. www.instagram.com/p/BUrqH78jAA...

College football is absolutely unhinged right now. It’s exactly why we love it College football has always been governed by emotion, not logic. This is what happens when you add chaos to it.

I wrote for @theathletic.com about how unhinged college football is right now. www.nytimes.com/athletic/675...

Watching his shoulders slump a little more each time he goes back to delete the most recent clip is actually sustaining me at this point.

You guys, I'm starting to worry I'm not gonna make it up in time for Wake Up Barstool.

Not a single player on this field is gonna have to get their kids off to school tomorrow morning so let's try to remember the real heroes here.

11/6 SQUAWKIN’ SPORTS LIVE XV TIX GOING FAST

Ideally, it’ll be a new day in Gotham City, our first show under Communism. Can’t wait to interrogate comrades
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#BetterReadThanDead

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I am absolutely baffled why anyone would consider any of these non-stories. These are players betting on their own games! And they keep happening! LIke, a lot! The Guardians lost their closer for the playoffs! How is that a non-story?

It's just the next one. There will (obviously) be more and more and more. There have already been a bunch of them!

MORRISON: RIDE THE SNAKE

Sports Gambling Is a Disaster Waiting to Happen Betting on Tom Brady’s next completion may sound like harmless fun. But it’s not.

September 2021! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Leitch: Angry fan bases drive CFB's coach carousel. Which ones are most desperate?

For @theathletic.com, I wrote about tortured college football fanbases. www.nytimes.com/athletic/673...

This is an excellent book, by the way. You should buy it. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/736427...

(go dawgs)

Honored to be the inspiration for a No Kings protest sign today.

"Sports News Without Access, Favor or Discretion" ended up winning out as Deadspin's founding slogan, but we were THIS close to going with "The punches will be pulled, but the reading pleasure will not be sacrificed."

I'm glad our second-place finisher will at last be getting some use.

One of my favorite sports things is when something happens and not a single person on the field has the foggiest idea what to do in response.

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Can confirm that the children in this house have gotten really into the Portland Frog.

Thanks! We really needed Tony there!

Ha, never a worry.

Well, I was only 11 years old when they left, and they were my team, so I just stuck with them. I can't really get TOO mad at them for leaving St. Louis; I don't live there anymore either, after all.