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Will Leitch farewell festivities ongoing at Deadspin
WatchdogAll kinds of stuff going on at Deadspin this Friday afternoon for Will Leitch's farewell. A new editor (A.J. Daulerio)! An interview with Buzz Bissinger! Assorted tributes to Will! Too much for individual links. Just go over and check it...... -
Bob Costas turns from blogosphere to baseball
WatchdogCommack's own Bob Costas was kind enough to invite me to his latest sports-related town hall meeting, which debuts on HBO Wednesday night and focuses on various aspects of the national pastime. I politely declined, because I have other plans......Tags: Bob Costas
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Buzz Bissinger, Will Leitch reunite on 'Costas Now'
WatchdogI am going to try today to watch my tape of last night's "Costas Now" and watch the British Open live and write a newspaper column simultaneously, so please forgive me for light blogging. So far I have seen Buzz......Tags: Radio Industry, Pete Rose, eBay Incorporated, CBS Corp.
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Sports author in another scuffle, takes on NCAA
O, by the WayDoes the name Buzz Bissinger mean anything to you?Unless you follow the coming and goings of sports journalism figures (and if you do with any regularity, you need a hobby), the name might not ring a bell.So to bring you up to......Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, New York Times
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Will Leitch breaks story about himself: It's over . . . soon
WatchdogWill Leitch just announced he is leaving as editor of Deadspin later this month. Wow. I'm not shocked, given the shelf life he predicted for himself when I first interviewed him 16 months ago, but still . . . How......Tags: Curt Schilling
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Peter Berg Saddles Up Barbaro Flick
Zap2It.com"Friday Night Lights" director Peter Berg is expected to direct "Gone Like the Wind," a Universal project about the late horse Barbaro. Like "Friday Night Lights," "Gone Like the Wind" is based on the writing of Buzz Bissinger, in this case an article...Tags: NBC, Preakness Stakes, Barbaro, Peter Berg, Kentucky Derby
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James Prendergast, Bellport
SPORTS: Football, spring track. Prendergast has been busting up defenders as a fullback and tight end, and dropping ball carriers as an inside linebacker for the past three years. He has been a football player since he was 6 ears old. He throws shot put...Tags: Indianapolis Colts, ESPN, Long Island, Football, Television
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'Shattered Glass'
Times Staff WriterWe take you now to the weekly staff meeting at the New Republic, a major player in American political journalism, a publication that likes to think of itself as "the in-flight magazine of Air Force One." Associate editor and resident wunderkind Stephen...Tags: Books and Magazines, Periodicals, Hayden Christensen, Steve Zahn, Newspaper and Magazine
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Movie review: 'Shattered Glass'
Chicago Tribune Movie Writer3 stars (out of 4) Disgraced New Republic reporter Stephen Glass is the latest in a recent line of marginal figures (Larry Flynt, Ed Wood, Bob Crane) to have movies made about them. Except "Shattered Glass" isn't really about Glass. He's at the movie'...Tags: Government, Chloe Sevigny, Hayden Christensen, Larry Flynt, Steve Zahn
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True lies
Orlando CityBeat WriterMichael Moore famously said that we live in "fictional times," but the era of the Big Lies began long before the last election, as the five-year-old story of disgraced The New Republic writer Stephen Glass reveals. Since at least the mid-1990s,...Tags: Billy Ray, Hank Azaria, Michael Kelly, Hayden Christensen, Movies
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