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Oakland Raider News: Team reports to camp and Lane Kiffin speaks
Training camp opened today, if this was baseball, it would be time for a long winded essay by George Will as read by Bob Costas about hope springing eternal and all those other cliches that are part of Americana. This is football, however, and instead of waxing poetically about new beginnings the Raider Nation is preparing their spikes and face paint to get hyped. So far, there is good news in ...
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 Buzz Bissinger, Will Leitch reunite on 'Costas Now'
Buzz Bissinger, Will Leitch reunite on 'Costas Now'
I am going to try today to watch my tape of last night's "Costas Now" and watch the British Open live and write a newspaper column simultaneously, so please forgive me for light blogging. So far I have seen Buzz Bissinger and Will Leitch sitting ...

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 Aw That's Cute, Leitch And Bissinger Make Up Over Beers And Dogs
Aw That's Cute, Leitch And Bissinger Make Up Over Beers And Dogs
I got wind of this ahead of time but I figured that Leitch wanted it to be a surprise. In case you missed Bob Costas' Town Hall Meeting on Baseball last night, he had Will and Buzz Bissinger in the crowd and introduced them before the event ...
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 Different worlds collide (again) on HBO's Costas Now
Different worlds collide (again) on HBO's Costas Now
Most of us who watched Wednesday night's episode of Costas Now, which featured a very special Buzz n' Will reunion, did so from the comfort of our couches. However, BLS contributor Nick Friedell stayed behind after the All-Star game and was able to ...
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 Costas Does Not Want Viewers if They Are Looking for a 'Repeat of Bissinger - Leitch'
Costas Does Not Want Viewers if They Are Looking for a 'Repeat of Bissinger - Leitch'
I find it whimsically amusing that over 30 years after he began his broadcasting career (roughly around the time he used the word "blowjob" as a synonym for the word "choke" in an ABA game) he is somehow being redefined by a one-sided shouting match ...
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 Buzz And Me: An FAQ [Emeritus]
Buzz And Me: An FAQ [Emeritus]
Those foolish enough to miss the season premiere of "Project Runway" — and those not "connected" enough for ESPY tickets — might have stumbled across the newest episode of "Costas Now" last night. It was entirely about baseball. Hey, I ...
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 Willie Mays Is Everybody's Awesome Grandpa
Willie Mays Is Everybody's Awesome Grandpa
Last night, Bob Costas hosted a baseball-themed episode of his Costas Now town hall meeting-style show live on HBO. Among the topics discussed were the dearth of black baseballers, the hall of fame candidacy of alleged steroid users and Pete Rose, ...
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 Elfish dork literally feeds off buzz of the crowd
Elfish dork literally feeds off buzz of the crowd
Last night Bob Costas chimed in with a "Hey, it's me, Joe six-pack" comment during HBO's Town Hall meeting on baseball when he resoundingly encouraged the argument that if us zany sports fans are the one's footing the taxes for...
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 Costas Now
Costas Now
COSTAS NOW OVERTIME After the last Costas Now, HBO presented an exclusive live Overtime segment on HBO.com, featuring Henry Aaron and Willie Mays. It was such a great exchange that HBO decided to make it its own segment. Check back soon to see a ...
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No Chair Throwing Please; Just Some Talk About Sports
"Costas Now," the sports news and interview show, which returns to HBO tomorrow at 9 p.m. EDT, may attract viewers in record numbers -- but Bob Costas isn't sure he wants all of them. "I'd like everyone interested in sports to tune in," he says, "but if all they're looking for is a repeat of 'Bissinger vs. Leitch' I'd just as soon they watched something else."
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CROWDED HOUSE AT FOOTBALL NIGHT
In conjunction with the arrival of Dan Patrick to NBC, former ESPN partner Keith Olbermann cracked wise regarding Patrick’s presence on Football Night in America, the one-hour-plus highlights show that precedes the Sunday night game on ...
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 Olbermann, Patrick Together Again: Pair Will Co-Host NBC’s Football Night in America
Olbermann, Patrick Together Again: Pair Will Co-Host NBC’s Football Night in America
NBC sent the press release wide : This fall, NBC’s Sunday night football show will be co-hosted by former Sportscenter buddies Keith Olbermann and Dan Patrick. That’s quite a motley crew NBC has assembled for when it gangbangs highlights ...
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 The Griddle: TV Series Review: Baseball's Golden Age
The Griddle: TV Series Review: Baseball's Golden Age
This article's ending goes beyond the review and summarizes the true greatness of baseball: "Baseball's Golden Age is not a time set in stone. It's the time when each person learned to fall in love with the game."
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 That Chad Pennington Throw Was As Soft As Church Music
That Chad Pennington Throw Was As Soft As Church Music
Dan Patrick is reuniting with Keith Olbermann on NBC’s Football Night In America. That’s the good news. The bad news? Besides Patrick and Olbermann, “Football Night” features Bob Costas, Cris Collinsworth, Tiki Barber, Jerome ...
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NBC REUNITES PATRICK, OLBERMANN
NBC has announced that Dan Patrick will join the cast of Football Night in America, where he will team up with his old SportsCenter partner Keith Olbermann to handle highlights of all the Sunday afternoon games. “We are proud to reunite one of ...
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 The Brain Leak
The Brain Leak
This week's Brain Leak: Will Leitch, prostitutes and the housing market, Craigslist ads, Anheuser Busch, Shaq's rap and Dubya with a mascot.
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 Chris Duhon Departs The Bulls
Chris Duhon Departs The Bulls
Dear Chicago Bull readers, It is with a heavy heart that I announce that your favorite Duke alum has packed his bags, and is heading to New York. If I may, I would like eulogize the Chris Duhon era in Chicago with a few words. Ahem. Chris Duhon was the 38th overall pick by the Chicago Bulls in the 2004 draft and the third of the day which included Ben Gordon and Luol Deng. Upon his ...
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 Danilo Gallinari, Hero Of The South Bronx [NBA Draft]
Danilo Gallinari, Hero Of The South Bronx [NBA Draft]
Somehow, a little part of us wonders, had Knicks fans known his nickname and true self , if they might have cut him a little more slack. Instead, as we sadly predicted , Gallinari got the royal New York treatment last night. There's a tendency, when ...
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 Our Conversation With Buzz Bissinger [Well, Hello There, Sir]
Our Conversation With Buzz Bissinger [Well, Hello There, Sir]
For the last few months, since that rather festive "Costas Now" business , we have been loathe to expand much more on our initial reaction . But as Buzz Bissinger has continued to give interviews to the "respectable" media, making his "points," we ...
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 Part V: Costas Now Redux [Will Leitch All-Star Blogebrity Roast!]
Part V: Costas Now Redux [Will Leitch All-Star Blogebrity Roast!]
We continue today's roasting festivities with this utterly brilliant video from the one and only JE SKEETS , who today was granted a rare work release from his Yahoo! prison.
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 Video -  Will Leitch, Costas Now Roast
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Video - Will Leitch, Costas Now Roast
The Deadspin Roast Of Will Leitch by J.E. Skeets