Buzz Bissinger, Will Leitch, and the White-Hot Flow of Opinion

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 Buzz Bissinger, Will Leitch, and the White-Hot Flow of Opinion
H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Friday Night Lights, subjected Deadspin blogger Will Leitch to an incontinent tirade about the menace of sports blogging on Bob Costas’s HBO show last night. Was he holding blogs responsible for the very stupidity that's made people turn away from the mainstream media in the first place? [link]

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Get Back in This Bag, You Stupid Cat!
Published 4/30/2008 by Dave at Dave's Football Blog
... 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 read about Bissinger’s tirade, though, the more ...

It’s in the (inter)net! April 30
Published 4/30/2008 by Tom Dunmore at Pitch Invasion
Well, it might piss off Buzz Bissinger, but I’m going to link to some of those crazy things called blogs again. Football at Chernobyl [The Global Game] Why Portland Rules [Offside Rules] Clips from that brilliant Zidane movie [A Pretty Move] MLS’ African pipeline growing [Soccer Insider] Looking at the Euro 2008 venues [Two Hundred Percent] Uncertain future for California Victory [1906 Supporters]

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