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On the Record With Bob Costas

Posted 5/3/2008 on FanHouse

On Thursday I wrote that I thought Bob Costas booked Friday Night Lights author Buzz Bissinger on his HBO show alongside Deadspin blogger Will Leitch because he wanted precisely the explosive, Jerry Springer-style confrontation that their panel discussion turned out to be. On Friday Costas called me to, in his words, "Correct your entirely incorrect assertion." "Did I knowingly set up this ...

Blog Update: Leitch vs. Bissinger

Posted 5/3/2008 on Moderately Cerebral Bias

Hi folks. As you may guess, I had some passionate opinions on the Bissinger-Leitch dispute this week. You can tell by the titles that I was not so sure that bloggers won this round as some of my blogging colleagues were: Will Leitch, Bob Costas, and the Blog Revolution that Never Was A Template for Blogger-Media Interactions, Plus Bissinger-Leitch Links I'm a little saddened for MSM and ...

I am a blogger, and so what of it?

Posted 5/1/2008 on The Fifth Corner

I watched the "unfair" matchup between writer and anti-Internet/blogger Buzz Bissinger (who wrote Friday Night Lights) and the owner of one of the biggest sports blogs, Will Leitch (Deadspin). At first I thought I would just let all of this pass, since personally I saw that there were plenty of others taking their time to respond to these accusations. By the way, the reason I am saying ...

Bissinger launches a profane, boneheaded attack on the Internet for being profane and boneheaded

Posted 5/1/2008 on BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog

King Bees Buzz...On Your Way Down the Drain. The segment opened with a packaged piece in which Leitch gave a boilerplate defense of his site’s existence, then more of the same between Costas and Leitch live at the round table. Costas, who has recently taken some get-off-my-lawnish potshots at the blogosphere, joked, “To my surprise, I find you very palatable in person.” After a few ...

Leitch vs. Bissinger--Yet ANOTHER Blogger's Thoughts

Posted 5/1/2008 on I Dislike Your Favorite Team

This is a sportsblog, and as we in the blogosphere have come under ornery attack (Like John McCain chasing kids off his lawn) I feel like I should respond in some way. I know that our literally dozens of regular readers may not read other sportsblogs very often, but you should know that Will Leitch is the man behind Deadspin (though it has become a multi-pronged affair of late, which I

This is Why Everyone Hates the Media

Posted 5/1/2008 on D Wizzle's World

HBO has a show with Bob Costas and one of his topics last week was on sports bloggers versus journalists. The panel consisted of a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist named Buzz Bissinger, NFL player Braylon Edwards, and Deadspin.com's Will Leitch. Deadspin.com is one of the most popular sports blogs on the internet and Bissinger is the writer of the book "Friday Night Lights." I had never heard ...

Simply Eloquent...

Posted 4/30/2008 on Conquest Chronicles: Front Page Posts

Soundchaser brought it up in the diaries . Last night on HBO the traditional media vs. the new media took center stage as Will Leitch from Deadspin was thrown into the lions den in defending what bloggers are and what we are about. He did a great job at controlling his emotions and not taking the bait as Costas sandbagged Leitch by hardly letting Leitch defend himself from the gratuitous ...

Bizzinger vs. Leitch (and the Internet)

Posted 4/30/2008 on Obscure Sports Quarterly

I’m only the 5,000th blogger to mention this, but Deadspin’s Will Leitch was on Costas Now last night, where Buzz Bissinger (author of Friday Night Lights) absolutely went nuts and on a tirade against Leitch and the Internet. YouTube pulled the video, but Deadspin still has it up . Leitch could’ve done a better job of defending himself, but it’s good that he ...

The Blog Zone

Posted 4/30/2008 on My Pinstripes

If you haven't heard about it already, Deadspin's Will Leitch was on with Bob Costas for his " On the Record " gig the other night and a "discussion" broke out about a blogging. Author Buzz Bissinger is less than thrilled, that's putting it politely, about blogs.

The Buzz Bissinger meltdown

Posted 4/30/2008 on Randball

As we guessed, the YouTubes now have a full 10 minutes of the “Costas Now” debacle of last night featuring Buzz Bissinger and Will Leitch. It’s HBO, so there is some bad language involved. Leitch stammers and tries to get words out while Bissinger and Costas turn their noses upward and pummel away, sounding quite frankly like jerks who had valid points to make but ...

Full Of Sound And Fury, Signifying Everything

Posted 4/30/2008 on Signal to Noise

(Video via Awful Announcing .) Everyone’s up in arms today over last night’s Costas Now , in which Will Leitch basically fended off H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger and Bob Costas as they ranted about blogging’s abusive tone and profane writing. Bissinger’s particular diatribe reeks of a noxious sort of desperation, one that a writer of his talent should ...

Leitch on Costas

Posted 4/30/2008 on The Futon Report

Awful Announcing has the Costas Now clips. ◼ Intro ◼ “Discussion”

Sports blogs, sports writers and why sports journalism doesn’t matter

Posted 4/30/2008 on Snobs vs. Slobs

Mike Schur has already touched on this, as has Will Leitch , the folks at Kissing Suzy Kolber and A.J. Daleurio . Both were subjects of an episode of Bob Costas’ HBO show Tuesday evening as Buzz Bissinger basically set himself on fire getting angry at Leitch about sports bloggers. (more…)

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

Posted 4/30/2008 on The Run of Play

H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger, the Pulitzer Prize-winner, the author of Friday Night Lights , the Vanity Fair paycheck-recipient, subjected Deadspin blogger Will Leitch to an incontinent tirade about the menace of sports blogging on Bob Costas’s HBO show last night. Okay, maybe too much has been made of the spit that flew from Bissinger’s lips as he accused blogs of ...

Friday Night Blights [Let's Get Windy]

Posted 4/30/2008 on Deadspin

Good morning. As you may know I, A.J. Daulerio, will be handling the bulk of today's content on the site. If you'd like to send along tips or complaints, please send them to ajd@deadspin.com We'll start off today with a few housekeeping items: As flattering and jarring as it was to hear Bob Costas pronounce my name correctly on last night's "Costas Now", I cannot take credit for the piece ...

Bissinger Turns Out Lights On Blogs-MSM Debate

Posted 4/30/2008 on SPORTSbyBROOKS

Deadspin’s Will Leitch was en-paneled last night with Braylon Edwards (?) and author Buzz Bissinger on HBO’s “Costas Now.” The three were supposedly to examine the role sports blogs have in affecting journalism at large. But instead of an insightful discussion, Leitch was shouted down with profanity from a bizarre behaving Bissinger throughout. From the look and ...

Costas and the Bloggers

Posted 4/30/2008 on Baseball Musings

The Big Lead reviews Bob Costas and the "State of the Sports Media" show that aired last night. Thankfully, I don't have HBO so I could concentrate on baseball games. It doesn't sound like they treated Will Leitch of Deadspin...

Michael Strahan, Chris Russo agree to disagree

Posted 4/30/2008 on Watchdog

The big national story to come out of Bob Costas' sports media town meeting on HBO Tuesday was the cross-generational holy war pitting Buzz Bissinger and (to a lesser extent) Costas against Will Leitch, representing the blogosphere. The most interesting New York-oriented development, though, was Michael Strahan talking to Chris Russo for the first time in nearly nine years. Strahan has ...

FJM: A Few Words on “The Internet”

Posted 4/30/2008 on BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog

And Will Leitch’s take on the Costas/Bissinger disaster.... For what I hope is the last time, but is clearly not: the level of discourse on Athletics Nation, and Baseball Prospectus, and SoSH, and Joe Posnanski’s blog, is every bit as high (if not higher) than what you can read in the best newspapers in the country. Bissinger’s hare-brained attempt to prove Leitch an uneducated oaf by asking ...

Are sports bloggers benevolent or evil? Yes.

Posted 4/30/2008 on Watchdog

Honestly, I don't know where to begin in dissecting the events of Tuesday in Big Town, where I should have been most interested in the Michael Strahan/Chris Russo showdown on "Costas Now" but instead got sucked in by the multi-car pileup in which Buzz Bissinger rear-ended Will Leitch, with Bob Costas tossing gasoline and matches into the wreck. As a middle-aged, mainstream media blogger, ...