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sports.aol.com - 4/30/2008

Buzz Bissinger Freaks Out at Will Leitch

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Filed under: Featured Stories , The Word , Blogs H.G. "Buzz" Bissinger, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Friday Night Lights , appeared on a panel tonight alongside Deadspin blogger Will Leitch on Bob Costas 's HBO show. It did not go well. Bissinger launched into a profane rant against Leitch, Deadspin, blogs in general and "Big Daddy Balls," the latter being the name ...

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  Wow....the blogosphere was focused last night.  NBA? It doesn't matter that two teams were eliminated, they sucked anyway.  MLB? Nobody cares, it's a niche sport anyway.  But Will Leitch on Costas??  Fuck and Yes!! 

  Really.....does it need to be the biggest blogger story of the year?  Yeah, Deadspin is awesome and that Buzz Whatever-his-name-is is a complete douchebag, but there doesn't need to be 18 stories about a 2nd rate interview show that gets a 0.4 rating.

  //climbs back down off of soap box

   

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Buzz Bissinger Does Not Like Blogs
Dan Shanoff — That was clear during Buzz Bissinger's freak-out on Costas Now (just now), attacking Will Leitch. The irony is that Will came across as the thoughtful one, and Buzz Bissinger -- self-appointed savior of "old media" -- came across as the unhinged nut. Points to Big Daddy Drew (aka "Balls Deep") and AJ Daulerio for the name-checks. Any pub is good pub! The other blog posts about it are rolling in: Here's one from MDS at Fanhouse.

Leitch Entered the Bissinger Saw
Mac Gs World — ... over lame dick jokes by commenters while cussing up a storm himself on live TV. I thought Andy Rooney was the face of the out of date, crusty media white man in media but Buzz Dickinger now has that notorious smug crown. Gotta Jam, time to take the NBC show "Friday Night Light's" off my NetFlix que. Once I can locate some video, I will post it. Blowhardinger fallout is slowing coming in and predictably, bloggers see the same senile old man. MJD at Fanhouse Brainwashed Drone of the Imperial Great Satan Dan ...

Will Leitch Responds to Buzz Bissinger's Outburst On Costas Now
The700Level.com - Philly Sports & Minutiae — ... As if their opinion is less of an opinion. Also, I hate the word blog lately. Ugh. Anyway, Will wrote a phenomenal response to the crazy episode. Go read it all, but the last line is the best. The future is obvious to anyone even slightly interested in looking. We just stand aside, as he, as they, watch the light shrink, then fade, then vanish. Always take the high road... until you can zing them like that! See also: MDS' take at FanHouse and FireJoeMorgan's take. >>Of Jimmy Olson, The Spittle, ...

Friday Night Lights Out for In-the-Dark Buzz
Scott's Shots — ... . . . Another three-first-named miscreant like yours truly (David Ross Scott), Michael David Smith, seems to feel much the same way we did after viewing the Buzz-on-Leitch battle. Old friend, ...

Buzz Bissinger hates blogger too: What else is new
Hail Mary Jane — ... to compete with. In the past, it was nothing but old white guys talking to other old white guys and Bryant Gumbell, but now the youth of this nation have a voice. Nevermind appreciating that there is more room for discussion and the fact that the people actually love it, they’d rather go on rants where they make themselves look like idiots. I commend Leitch for maintaining his composure and not sinking to this guys level. It only made him look worse. [Image via Fanhouse] Tags: buzz bissinger, will leitch

Links of the Day 4/30/08
The Victoria Times — If you're into the whole "Sports Blogs versus Main Stream Media" rumble that's been going on outside the scope of this site, there was sort of a debacle on HBO last night. I didn't get to see it, unfortunately. Also, if you read several other blogs, this was a pretty cool piece on ...

Bissinger Turns Out Lights On Blogs-MSM Debate
SPORTSbyBROOKS — ... large. Buzz Bissinger But instead of an insightful discussion, Leitch was shouted down with profanity from a bizarre behaving Bissinger throughout. From the look and sound of the celebrated author of “Friday Night Lights”, it appeared to us that he might’ve forgotten his meds before the show went to air. And we’re not trying to be funny. Leitch writes about the experience here . Jon Weisman of BASEBALL TOASTER also has an eloquent, thorough treatment , as does MDS at AOL FANHOUSE. As noted in all of the accounts, the credibility Bissinger ...

The MSM And Blogs: Why The War?
The Falcoholic — ... Those of you who aren't aware of Pulitzer-winning journalist Buzz Bissinger's complete and total freakout on Deadspin editor Will Leitch can get caught up to speed here, ...

The Bissinger Fall Out [Blogdome]
Deadspin — • Bissinger wigging out on a radio show a while back. Skip to about the 8:50 mark. [790 The Ticket] • EDSBS gives a long rundown of this whole Costas Now thing. [EDSBS] • Of course, Shanoff's fired up about all this. [Dan Shaoff] • Hey, how'd Braylon Edwards do? [Sons of Nev] • MDS is appropriately measured. [AOL Fanhouse] • Mose Schrute gives his two cents. [Fire Joe Morgan] • Awful Announcing gives us this perspective. [Awful Announcing] • Big Daddy ...

Attention MLB: I am not a steroids supplier, please move along
Big League Stew — ... Well, all I can say is that Bob Costas would be glad you're not going through anyone's garbage. That's usually the territory of evil bloggers like ...

Get Back in This Bag, You Stupid Cat!
Dave's Football Blog — ... at Deadspin chief Will Leitch last night on HBO’s Costas Now, so I’m probably ill-equipped to respond to it. Tons of sports blogs have chimed in already with intelligent responses to that rant, including the target of all that vitriol himself — who, in all honestly, reacted far better to this attack than I would have. Here are a few more worthwhile responses: Awful Announcing Every Day Should Be Saturday FanHouse Fire Joe Morgan The Run of Play The more I ...

Full Of Sound And Fury, Signifying Everything
Signal to Noise — ... whole is out of control. If you don’t mind me saying so, that’s a fuck of a lot of profanity and abuse heaped on by those supposed guardians of the Right Way of doing things.  Glass houses, stones, throwing….right, you know the deal. Takes on the program: Both Will and AJ from Deadspin, Orson at EDSBS, Brian at Awful Announcing, D-Wil at Sports on My Mind (who agrees with Bissinger), FJM’s Ken Tremendous, The FanHouse’s Michael David Smith, and BDD at KSK (yes, vulgar and profane). ...

PM Roundup: Buzz Bissinger, Popular Man
The Big Lead — This is Selita Ebanks. Osi Umenyiora is a lucky, lucky man. We’ve started to pick some interns, but there are still “resumes” to get to. You’ll see their work shortly. We do hope to respond to everyone. After the jump, Reggie Bush, miscaptioned. Buzz is Buzzy: Dodger Thoughts, Double Nickels, Deadspin, AJ Daulerio, Scott’s Shots, Fire Joe Morgan, Fanhouse, Awful Announcing, all have a take on the HBO show last night. NBA playoff ratings are through the roof. (USA ...

The State of the Sports Blogosphere
Bull VS Bear — ... we drop a post on a Football Outsiders message board and risk getting our commenting privileges taken away. I just want to throw out some examples of the trash these sports blogs feed us. Here are some headlines, maybe you’ve read the stories: Lunchtime Lust: Natasha Poly Pouty Lips Sam Keller Has Hottest Girlfriend Of 2008 NFL Draftees Of Jimmy Olson, Spittle And The Dying Of The Light [Hey That Went Well] Buzz Bissinger Freaks Out at Will Leitch Olympians Worth Watching: Our Hottest ...

Bissed off and Threatened
East Windup Chronicle — ... Most people have already seen or heard this on other sites, but I’m compelled write something about this Bob Costas/Will Leitch - and now Buzz Bissinger of the New York Times - tilt that’s been spawning a lot of coverage in the sports blog world. ...

OUR TAKE ON BISSINGER VS. LEITCH
ProFootballTalk.com — Several readers have asked me to opine on the . . . the . . . hell I don’t know what to call it that unfolded last night on HBO’s Costas Now between Buzz Bissinger and Deadspin’s Will Leitch. My first thought was to say nothing, since it had zilch to do with football, apart from the presence of a talking bump on a log that looked a lot like Browns receiver Braylon Edwards.  Still, when I saw the FanHouse post from our own MDS on Wednesday morning, I was immediately fascinated, and I couldn’t quit thinking about what might have gone down on the clip that inevitably would be ...

AaronGleeman.com — ... Now. The full-length version of the 20-minute train wreck is definitely worth watching, but here's perhaps the most relevant clip: My thoughts on the subject could redefine Gleeman-length, but the video pretty much speaks for itself and some of my favorite writers have already weighed in on the topic, so check out Bissinger-related takes from Alan Sepinwall of the Newark Star Ledger, Michael David Smith of AOL Fanhouse, Joe Posnanski of the Kansas ...

Spartacus is Dead!
3 Shades of Blue — I've been contemplating doing this for awhile and it seems that the time is right. With the recent uproar that was created when noted journalist and author Buzz Bissinger attacked Deadspin.com creator (and author in his own right) Will Leitch on Bob Costas' HBO show, I decided that it was time for me to step out from the shadows of anonymity. After all, one of the big issues that the "established media" has with bloggers is that they hide behind usernames of their choice and therefore, don't have the level of accountability that journalists, columnists and ...

Former Islanders media VP getting brutally candid on blog
Puck Daddy — ... on the sports media (a.k.a. The Will and Buzz Good Time Happy Fun Show), and spoke about how she yearned for better access to athletes in order to get to know "the real" person. Botta called this position "a load of made-for-TV crap," ...

Reading Room
The Joy of Sox — I never found the time or energy to comment on Buzz Bissinger's bizarre reaction back in April to Will Leitch and sports blogs in general, but reading this personal story of a Portland columnist (found thru Glenn Greenwald and Attytood) led me to Smittblog's take, which is quite good. (Plus he's a Sox fan.) Morgan Ensberg was a guest poster on Yankees pitcher Phil Hughes's blog back on April 25. It was short but interesting. I never knew this about second base umpires between innings: TV contracts are a really big deal ...