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Costas Cannot Escape The Ghost Of Will Leitch

Bob Costas has more than 20 years of experience as a sportscaster. He's done the Olympics six times. But he's most famous on the internet for inviting wild-eyed sportswriter Buzz Bissinger on his talk show in April to rant and project bits of spittle towards absurdly civil former Deadspin editor Will Leitch. Now Costas—one of the most refined and experienced personalities in all of sports broadcasting—is forced to talk about Leitch and Bissinger in every single interview he does. It's his legacy! More »

10:01 AM on Tue Jul 15 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
15,741 views, 23 comments

Latest by N/A: Idea for a new show - Hire random dudes (preferably above 6'3) to walk up to Costas and just keep more »

journalismism

Sportswriting Ain't What It Used To Be

Veteran sportswriter Pat Jordan, who worked for Sports Illustrated back in the good old days when every athlete would grovel and tap dance for a chance to appear in that magazine, has a long piece in Slate today detailing exactly why his job was way better back then than it is now. To sum it up: athletes today know they can control the media, whereas back then they were basically underpaid rubes grateful for any press coverage that might land them some endorsements to enhance their meager salaries. Jordan also notes that Jose Canseco is a jerk, old-timey players weren't afraid to ogle girls in front of a reporter, and Deadspin.com is the future of sports journalism. Suck on that, Buzz Bissinger!: More »

1:56 PM on Thu May 22 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
6,915 views, 26 comments

Latest by growler: Any baseball fan who hasn't read Jordan's "A False Spring" needs to rectify that mistake. A fantastic book. more »

buzz bissinger

Shouty Sportswriter Is Sorry For Yelling

Buzz Bissinger, the excellent sportswriter and blog hater who made himself a very unpopular man very quickly by becoming unhinged and cussing out nice-guy Deadspin editor Will Leitch on TV last week, has had some time to think about what he did. And he's sorry now. First his wife told him he looked bad. Then everybody else did. "I started reading emails sent to me. The majority were predictably vindictive — dickhead, horsefucker, douchebag, windbag, ugly, stupid, etc. But what struck me far more is that many of the emails were smart, not laced with personal invective, and made cogent points about sports blogs and the Internet." He has perhaps now learned a valuable lesson, or three! More »

3:24 PM on Mon May 5 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
2,815 views, 30 comments

Latest by MisterHippity: @Theda_Bara: Re: Wait. "Horsefucker" is a predictable insult? It is if you're Matthew Broderick! [rimshot] Thank you, ladies and germs ... more »

serious business

Buzz Bissinger Will Abuse You Into Civility

Friday Night Lights author Buzz Bissinger hates the internet. Deadspin editor Will Leitch, despite also having written books (printed on paper and everything!) represents the internet, as a whole. So Bob Costas sat Will down with Bissinger (and, for some reason, Browns wide receiver Braylon Edwards) so that Bissinger could yell at Will for ten minutes and call him "full of shit," among other things. Costas just kinda smugly encourages the whole mess. Will is apparently to blame for the existence of photos of Matt Leinert partying, which Costas seems to think were dug up from someone's trash. And Buzz cannot stop cursing and interrupting and shouting in his vitriolic attack on the uncouth, anti-journalistic rudeness of bloggers, an irony he apparently does not give two shits about. Will! The nicest Gawker Media editor! This, along with our hideous physical deformities, is why we don't do television. Clip attached (in case YouTube's disappears).

4:19 PM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By Pareene
4,939 views, 34 comments

Latest by sassenach: I like Bob Costas a lot less after watching this. Braylon is, to put it politely, unsmart. Will seems like a genuinely more »