Will Leitch Talks About That NPR Interview, and Why Only One Blog Seems to Call Him Out

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Will Leitch Talks About That NPR Interview, and Why Only One Blog Seems to Call Him Out
Foul Balls found this 5/6/2008 on sports.aol.com [flag]
Last week Jason Whitlock noted that Deadspin's Will Leitch , in his recent book, God Save the Fan , "spends an inordinate amount of time telling prominent, successful, well-spoken African-Americans that they're not really black." Whitlock also referred to Leitch's NPR appearance some four months ago, where the same subject had come up. I'm black, hardly prominent, debatably successful, and ... [link]

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High Five
Published 5/6/2008 by Fornelli at Foul Balls
A quick look around the interweb while shoving a bat up Juan Uribe's ass Rashard Mendenhall gets a quick introduction into the life of a rich athlete. [ Chicago Sun-Times ] That damn kid finally took his Favre jersey off. [ Deadspin ] How come more people haven't called out Leitch for this whole race thing? [ FanHouse ] When politics and football collide. [ Kissing Suzy Kolber ] If you were a big fan of Wayne Larrivee and Tom Dore on Bulls broadcasts, well, I have some bad news for you. [ Chicago Sports ]

Perhaps Bob Costas Should’ve Invited dwil To Appear On Camera?
Published 5/8/2008 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
... In the aftermath of the fateful Buzz Bissinger/Will Leitch (above, left) throwdown on “Costas Now”, the Fanhouse’s Ryan Wilson wondered why, with the exception of ...

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