Video - Costas Now: Internet Media Segment

• Redsauce

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  I tried watching this, but I just couldn't.  I've hated Buzzinger since I read '3 days in August' where he says--and I'm paraphrasing--"the statheads couldn't possibly love baseball".  !@#$ you, buddy.  I love baseball.  I also like knowing more about it.  What an ass.

  Posted 5/1/2008 [reply] [flag]

• ptgloden

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  in 1922, a column titled "This Our Latest Problem" in the Sporting News said "Mr. Radio is going to butt into the business of telling the world all about the ball game without the world ever having to come to the ball park to find out. ... Next we may have somebody thinking out a ball game, radiating it from his wrinkled brow to the world, broadcast by wireless telepathy stuff."
  
  nothing ever changes... (but damn was that guy right or what?)

  Posted 5/1/2008 [reply] [flag]

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Internet Media Segment
Published 4/30/2008 by Awful Announcing- at Awful Announcing
Before you watch this you need a little background. I wasn't around when this was recording and if you watch you'll notice and annoying Comcast reminder for a TV show. The show in question is NOFX: Backstage Passport and if you enjoy 40 year old punk rockers doing drugs in foreign countries than it's for you! ...

Shut Down The Internet, There's Cruelty A-Foot!
Published 4/30/2008 by MariusJanulisForThree at Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician
Here we go... Excuse me for a second while I take some mean-spirited potshots. Bob Costas and his back-handed "I find you very palatable in person" compliment to Will. Gee...thanks. Buzz's W.C. Heinz argument. What the hell was that? Was that actually a question? If we're being serious, even Will would tell you that Heinz would be much better at describing the events of a game with prose and style. But would Heinz then analyze the game ...

“Costas Now” Internet segment in video from
Published 4/30/2008 by PostmanR at The Postmen // A Sports Blog // Chicago, IL.
O’Day asked for it, so here it is. Watching it again … ugh … I really just don’t want to write about it because I’d go on for way too long. (See here, here, here and here for some great writing on it.) I will say this: it’s clear Buzz doesn’t read blogs; he doesn’t understand them. So to have all that spite and anger built up about something you don’t know at all, it’s a bit much. And it’s a generational thing. It happens in music, art, film, fashion — the old guard can’t except the new. And they aren’t even ...

Bissinger Vs. Leitch [Costas Now]
Published 4/30/2008 by DAULERIO at Deadspin
So, here's the YouTube of last night's "Internet Media" segment from Costas Now. Special thanks go to Awful Announcing for pulling this together. ...

Costas NOW : Sports and New Media
Published 4/30/2008 by Anthony De Rosa at Hot Foot
Here’s two clips from last nights engrossing show about Sports and New Media. Hat tip to Awful Announcing for the links. Share This ShareThis

The Bissinger Video
Published 4/30/2008 by Brian at The Run of Play
Here’s the tape of the Buzz Bissinger-Will Leitch contretemps. Watching it again, I wish Leitch would have answered more directly in a couple of places (there are some moments that feel spun, and he seemed to sense that with Braylon Edwards there he couldn’t simply admit that his site mocks athletes). But it was also pretty astonishing to see Buzz Bissinger essentially accuse Leitch of exploiting athletes’ private lives for his own gain. I wonder if anyone in Odessa, Texas ever thought they knew a sportswriter who did that? Parenthetically—and then ...

Watch Buzz Go Off
Published 4/30/2008 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
Finally, the video. Nice work, A-squared.

Town Hall Meeting On Media and Sports
Published 4/30/2008 by Mizzo at The Starting Five
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Buzz Bissinger vs. Will Leitch [Video]
Published 4/30/2008 by houroc at SportFiends
Thanks to Awful Announcing for this one, no one else had it yet. Anyway, this is the video of the interview from earlier. Tags: buzz bissinger, will leitch

Weighing In On Sports Blogging In The Wake of "Bissinger vs Leitch"
Published 4/30/2008 by BDoc at The Sports Oasis
I typed "Bissinger vs Leitch" because it was more Bissinger ranting about something he obviously didn't fully understand, and Will Leitch doing his best to defend it without cursing or fighting. It's been addressed a few times today over at Deadspin, and Brian Powell at Awful Announcing threw in his $.02 in addition to getting footage of the segment on YouTube. Many thanks to him for that. Unfortunately, I didn't get to see it live, and until the video was put up I really didn't know what to expect. However, after watching it these ...

Full Of Sound And Fury, Signifying Everything
Published 4/30/2008 by Signal to Noise at 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 ...

The Buzz Bissinger meltdown
Published 4/30/2008 by Michael Rand at 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 couldn’t stop tripping over their own egos along the way. Braylon Edwards? We have no idea why he was even invited. Ready for awkwardness? Here you go.

The Blog Zone
Published 4/30/2008 by Mantlemurcer at 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. ...

Wednesday roundup?
Published 4/30/2008 by Rickhouse at Tremendous Upside Potential
I'm starting to feel like Shoals now, just linking to all the other stuff I do around the internets instead of cranking out posts here. Really, it kind of makes me feel important. - Top ten players to watch for the 2009 NFL Draft. I thought this was a brilliant idea when I wrote it Sunday night, but since I didn't post it until today, it seems like everyone beat me to the punch already. About five hours after I finished it I noticed that McShay already had a full 09 Mock out already. - Your AL home runs leader: Carlos Quentin. - Here's the thing that I don't think Buzz Bissinger understands: about half of ...

There Is No Place In the Present For the Future
Published 4/30/2008 at The Sporting Blog
Unless you live under the same rock as author Buzz Bissinger, then you already know all about HBO s Costas Now last night, which was a 90 minute live program attempting to examine various aspects of sports media. The program was broken up into five segments, but for our purposes, the one that mattered most was The Internet. We d hope it would be an intellectual discourse about blogs and their place currently, and moving forward, in the sports media landscape. Instead, what we got was a deranged Buzz Bissinger losing his mind on Deadspin s Will Leitch, and on blogging in general. But before we get to that, here is the intro to the segment, ...

Apparently Friday Night Lights is for the Hereditary Elite
Published 4/30/2008 by Poncho Sinatra at Sport Hump...dry and harmless
I wasn't able to catch the show last night with Bob Cost(ass) and Buzzsaw Bissinger, but I was able to catch up on some video from TNIAAM and The Idiots. As I listen to Axe's show right now I realize that "Now more than ever" I am actually proud to be writing a blog that nobody reads about sports that "has little, or no inherent value". As a sports fan and someone who has played organized (and unorganized: beer league softball) sports my entire life, I was amazed by the brass balls of Buzz Bissinger's comments last night. We are talking about ...

In Defense of The Blog
Published 4/30/2008 by Luke Thomas <info@bloodyelbow.com> at Bloody Elbow: Front Page Posts
This isn't MMA related, but I felt like passing it along just the same. It's a debate that gets to the heart of why blogs are important and valuable and why the hostility to many of them are so strong among the journalistic Old Guard. Everyone's thoughts are appreciated in this debate. Post 'em if you got 'em. HT: reader Matt M.

Published 4/30/2008 by mrsunshinevegas at Mr. Sunshine
BISSINGER

COSTAS AND FOUL MOUTHED AUTHOR TURN BLOG INVESTIGATION INTO HATCHET JOB
Published 5/1/2008 by mrsunshinevegas at Mr. Sunshine
What a sad night for media “legend” Bob Costas during his CostasNow show on HBO. He talked to a whole two bloggers and then made the piece into a print v. blog battle. WATCH AUTHOR BUZZ BISSINGER SCREAM AND CURSE AT BLOGGER WILL LEITCH   Bissinger’s ...

Bissed off and Threatened
Published 5/1/2008 by Shinsano at 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. Even though I write what is essentially a sports blog, I don’t necessarily embrace the role, or desire to be a part of the movement. And, don’t kid yourself, it is a movement. Or rather, it’s been a movement. We’re living in a time where the sports media has undergone a radical change. Much of it’s for the better, and a ...

Buzz Bissinger Rips Sports Blogging, Makes Fool Out of Self
Published 5/1/2008 by Anthony Hall at MVN Outsider
There’s a good chance you’ve heard about this by now, but on Tuesday night, Bob Costas hosted an HBO special that examined the state of today’s sports media. Part of the program focused on the internet, and included a debate between Deadspin’s Will Leitch and Buzz Bissinger, the writer who penned Friday Night Lights (and maintains a strong anti-blog stance). Also involved in the conversation was Cleveland Browns wide receiver Braylon Edwards — and I, too, have little idea why Edwards was involved in a debate about internet discourse. Bissinger quickly made it apparent that he would act in ...

Crashing The Gates, Vol. II
Published 5/1/2008 by Chris Rasmussen at Bugs & Cranks
The topic of the day is apparently the ambush of Deadspin’s Will Leitch on HBO last night.  For those of you who haven’t seen it, welcome to sports blogging and here: ...

On BSD, Blogs, and Such
Published 5/1/2008 by Mike <info@blackshoediaries.com> at Black Shoe Diaries: Front Page Posts
It's rare that you will ever see BSD get in a pissing contest with the traditional media, or the "mainstream media" as they like to call themselves. A sports writer has to say something pretty stupid to ruffle my feathers. But it does happen, like last night when sports writer Buzz Bissinger shouted down Will Leitch from Deadspin ...

The First Major Shot Has Been Fired
Published 5/1/2008 by Jason at Eleven Warriors
Or is that like the 34th shot? Anyway, Viva Leitch. And Buzz Bissinger may have anger issues. Not to have a cock-measuring contest or anything, but I’m guessing the three writers of this site make comparable (or better) money than your typical sports reporter at our real and completely unrelated jobs. Then we come home and do this is a hobby. And best of all, we’re all out of mom’s basement. Finally, I hate saying this, but Braylon Edwards seems to be pretty intelligent and on point. Follow-ups: Deadspin ...

Thursday’s Layup Drill
Published 5/1/2008 by Matt Watson at Detroit Bad Boys
... on Saturday; whether it’s Game 7 or Game 1 remains to be seen. If Flip is eventually fired this year, the rumor mill suggests he will have suitors. The Celtics took care of business against the Hawks. I’d have my blogger card stripped from me if I didn’t mention the Costas Now brouhaha in which civility was thrown out the window and Will Leitch was ambushed. Here’s Leitch’s response, as well as reaction from around the blogosphere. Last but not least, don’t lend ...

Sports Blogs V. The Mainstream Media, Raving Lunatics
Published 5/1/2008 by HG at YOU BEEN BLINDED
If H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger, the author of several books including Friday Night Lights, intended to be the voice of reason in the ever growing sports writing field, he failed miserably. If his plan was to embarrass himself, his ...

Just a Little Something For Will Leitch and The Starting Five Interviews Buzz Bissinger
Published 5/27/2008 by Mizzo at The Starting Five
I know this is gonna start some shit, but somebody’s gotta put the blogsphere on notice and it might as well be us. I don’t agree with everything Buzz says, but the man has been around long enough to have earned the respect for his words whether you like them or not. Braylon probably didn’t know what hit him. He wanted that PTI Tony Reali button bad Uh….Go Blue! Just gotta get something off my chest. The check and balance is never personal, always business…for it’s our destiny… Will Leitch ...