Will Leitch - Are Today's Sports Fans too Cynical?

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/02/06/Will_Leitch_God_Save_the_Fan

Deadspin.com editor Will Leitch discusses sports fans' changing attitudes about professional athletes.

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Will Leitch, Founding editor of Deadspin.com, discusses his new book God Save the Fan: How Preening Sportscasters, Athletes Who Speak in the Third Person, and the Occasional Convicted Quarterback Have Taken the Fun Out of Sports (And How We Can Get It Back).

...a bitingly funny manifesto about how sports fans can take back their games from the bottom-line owners, corporate media, and the cheating athletes on the field - Books Inc.

Will Leitch is the founding editor of Deadspin.com, Will Leitch has also written for the New York Times, New York magazine, Slate, Salon, and Playboy, and is the author of Catch, a novel, and Life as a Loser, a book of essays. He has been profiled in Sports Illustrated and the New York Times. Born in Mattoon, Illinois, he lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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[felonious83]

when will people start saying the same thing about actors and musicians? not any time soon because your argument is either a) racist or b) elitist, and the world will never be rid of your kind.

the free market determines how much athletes are worth, and, believe it or not, they actually generate a fuckload of revenue in many different industries with their "useless" skills.

what a dumbass comment.

[arequipa1]

leitch is a good guy but perhaps more than a tad too self-satisfied. he hears the applause and just revels in it. that said, interesting dude, but not groundbreaking in any way.

[Boysof82]

Will, I read your article in the NYM and it lead me to this youtube. I think you are onto some great things. There needs to be a balance and you are doing a great job voicing it. Ignore the ignoramuses who complain but do nothing. " They never make statues for critics."

[schlorn]

wow will! good to see a mattoon guy doing so well! you rock!

[thirdpositionist]

You're the one spending all of his time starring at other men's fury butts!

[walkman130]

upty wanker enjoy the hamptons faggot

[thirdpositionist]

Sports fans are the lowlifes of society.

[arequipa1]

very moronic and ignorant comment. thanks. or not.

[svetaswan]

Good post felonious - although something tells me that neotoy will use your screename to try to discredit your post.

(But even if your screename were IAbideByLaw, he/she wouldn't realize the intelligence of your post.)

[OlderPete]

Mickey was an alcoholic dude!