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The Bills’ Misery Has Reached a Torturous New Level

The Bills’ Misery Has Reached a Torturous New Level
27.01.2025 9

Daily Intelligencer

Will Leitch

College Football Will Ruin What Made This Season Great

College Football Will Ruin What Made This Season Great
21.01.2025 40

Daily Intelligencer

Will Leitch

Who You Should Root For in the NFL Playoffs (Not the Chiefs)

Who You Should Root For in the NFL Playoffs (Not the Chiefs)
15.01.2025 10

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Will Leitch

Who You Should Root For in the NFL Playoffs (Not the Chiefs)

Who You Should Root For in the NFL Playoffs (Not the Chiefs)
15.01.2025 5

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Will Leitch

Watching Sports Now Requires a Spreadsheet and a Fortune

Back in 1993, Fox paid $1.58 billion to air NFC football games for the next four years. It was a staggering deal that helped solidify the NFL’s...

08.01.2025 6

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Will Leitch

Watching Sports Now Requires a Spreadsheet and a Fortune

Back in 1993, Fox paid $1.58 billion to air NFC football games for the next four years. It was a staggering deal that helped solidify the NFL’s...

08.01.2025 5

Daily Intelligencer

Will Leitch

The 10 Biggest Sports Stories of 2024

Did you imagine being this exhausted as 2024 comes to a close? Heading into an election year like this one, I had imagined, once it was over, I’d...

27.12.2024 10

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Will Leitch

The 10 Biggest Sports Stories of 2024

Did you imagine being this exhausted as 2024 comes to a close? Heading into an election year like this one, I had imagined, once it was over, I’d...

27.12.2024 10

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The 7 Most Important Athletes of 2024

Measured by sheer number of viewers, this might have been the most popular sports year in American history. More people watched the Super Bowl than...

24.12.2024 10

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7 Takeaways From the Mets’ Blockbuster Juan Soto Signing

With the 15-year, $765 million contract they’ve given to Juan Soto, the New York Mets have shaken up baseball — and really all of sports — for...

10.12.2024 3

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Will Leitch

7 Takeaways From the Mets’ Blockbuster Juan Soto Signing

With the 15-year, $765 million contract they’ve given to Juan Soto, the New York Mets have shaken up baseball — and really all of sports — for...

09.12.2024 4

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If the Mets Get Juan Soto, They Could Rule New York

When I moved to New York City in January 2000, the Yankees reigned so supreme that it felt like a rupture in the universe when they lost. And then...

03.12.2024 5

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Let the Athletes Do the ‘Trump Dance’ in Peace

If you haven’t yet come to terms with this month’s catastrophic election results, you may currently be using sports as an escape hatch. This,...

20.11.2024 2

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Will Leitch

Let the Athletes Do the ‘Trump Dance’ in Peace

If you haven’t yet come to terms with this month’s catastrophic election results, you may currently be using sports as an escape hatch. This,...

20.11.2024 2

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Will Leitch

Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson Is the Absurd Spectacle We Deserve

Advertisement Supported by Guest Essay By Will Leitch Mr. Leitch is a contributing editor at New York magazine and the author of the novels “How...

18.11.2024 20

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Trump Won, So We’ll Settle for Aaron Rodgers Schadenfreude

Last week, it looked like a narcissistic, past-his-prime, science-denying, self-aggrandizing serial liar might finally get the public comeuppance...

12.11.2024 10

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What I Learned From Destroying Myself at the NYC Marathon

Before Sunday, I had never run 26.2 miles in my life. Like many people preparing for their first marathon, I spent months training for the actual...

05.11.2024 2

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Will Leitch

What I Learned From Destroying Myself at the NYC Marathon

Before Sunday, I had never run 26.2 miles in my life. Like many people preparing for their first marathon, I spent months training for the actual...

05.11.2024 2

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Will Leitch

The Yankees May Have Blown Their Best Chance for Years

For Yankees fans, one of the more charming story lines from this World Series was the emergence of a photo of current shortstop Anthony Volpe as an...

31.10.2024 1

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Will Leitch

The Yankees May Have Blown Their Best Chance for Years

For Yankees fans, one of the more charming story lines from this World Series was the emergence of a photo of current shortstop Anthony Volpe as an...

31.10.2024 1

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Will Leitch

The Yankees May Have Blown Their Best Chance for Years

For Yankees fans, one of the more charming storylines from this World Series was the emergence of a photo of current shortstop Anthony Volpe as an...

31.10.2024 2

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Will Leitch

Dodgers-Yankees Is the Superstar Extravaganza Baseball Needs

It is certainly understandable why no one would want to celebrate this particular anniversary, but 2024 marks 30 years since the 1994 strike...

24.10.2024 1

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This World Series Is the Superstar Extravaganza Baseball Needs

It is certainly understandable why no one would want to celebrate this particular anniversary, but 2024 marks 30 years since the 1994 strike...

24.10.2024 1

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Will Leitch

The Knicks Are Supposed to be Good. That Might Be a Problem.

On Sunday night, something unprecedented happened at Madison Square Garden: A legitimately exciting preseason NBA game took place. The basketball...

17.10.2024 6

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Will Leitch

The Knicks Are Supposed to be Good. That Might be a Problem.

On Sunday night, something unprecedented happened at Madison Square Garden: A legitimately exciting preseason NBA game took place. The basketball...

17.10.2024 5

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Will Leitch

Why Isn’t LeBron James Talking About Kamala Harris?

In 2008, LeBron James, then just 23 years old, still a year out from the first of his four MVP awards, did something highly unusual for a top-tier...

09.10.2024 4

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Will Leitch

Why Isn’t LeBron James Talking About Kamala Harris?

In 2008, LeBron James, then just 23 years old, still a year out from the first of his four MVP awards, did something highly unusual for a top-tier...

09.10.2024 2

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Will Leitch

Who to Root for in the MLB Playoffs (Other Than the Mets)

The NFL may be more popular, the NBA may be cooler, the WNBA (amazingly) may be driving the most exhausting culture-war conversations, but when it...

05.10.2024 10

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Who to Root for in the Baseball Playoffs (Other Than the Mets)

The NFL may be more popular, the NBA may be cooler, the WNBA (amazingly) may be driving the most exhausting culture-war conversations, but when it...

05.10.2024 5

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The Beauty of the White Sox’s Historically Abysmal Season

Maybe it’ll happen today, maybe tomorrow. But at some point this week, the Chicago White Sox will set the Major League Baseball record for most...

24.09.2024 3

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The Beauty of the White Sox’s Historically Abysmal Season

Maybe it’ll happen today, maybe tomorrow. But at some point this week, the Chicago White Sox will set the Major League Baseball record for most...

24.09.2024 1

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Will Leitch

Be Worried About the Mets Fan in Your Life

New York Mets fans are a lot. I say this out of total, entirely genuine respect. To be a devoted sports fan is to be irrationally, floating-to-the-...

17.09.2024 1

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Will Leitch

Be Worried About the Mets Fan in Your Life

New York Mets fans are a lot. I say this out of total, entirely genuine respect. To be a devoted sports fan is to be irrationally, floating-to-the-...

17.09.2024 2

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Will Leitch

Aaron Rodgers Is Holding on for Dear Life

Athletes are, as a general rule, more confident and less neurotic than the rest of us. It’s part of the job requirement. If you go into a...

10.09.2024 1

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Will Leitch

Aaron Rodgers Is Holding on for Dear Life

Athletes are, as a general rule, more confident and less neurotic than the rest of us. It’s part of the job requirement. If you go into a...

10.09.2024 10

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Will Leitch

The Chiefs-Ravens NFL Season Opener Was Pure America in 2024

One of the glorious things about the 2023 NFL season — one of the primary reasons it set ratings records and was purely enjoyable in a mostly...

06.09.2024 6

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Will Leitch

Swift-Kelce Season 2 and Other Major NFL Storylines to Watch

My initial pitch for this column was a 2024 NFL season preview that focused on whether various existential threats might cause near-term (or even...

03.09.2024 7

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Will Leitch

Swift-Kelce Season Two and Other Major NFL Storylines to Watch

My initial pitch for this column was a 2024 NFL season preview that focused on whether various existential threats might cause near-term (or even...

03.09.2024 7

Daily Intelligencer

Will Leitch

A Brief Guide to College Football’s Strange New Landscape

When I was in college in the ’90s, I once played the old EA Sports College Football video game for so many hours in a row that my roommates began...

20.08.2024 3

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Will Leitch

A Brief Guide to College Football’s Strange New Landscape

When I was in college in the ‘90s, I once played the old EA Sports College Football video game for so many hours in a row that my roommates began...

20.08.2024 2

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Will Leitch

The tricky strategy behind the addictive sports betting boom

14.08.2024 20

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7 Takeaways From a Splendid Summer Olympics

One of the refrains you hear every Olympics is some variation of, “all of you loving [name of sport], let’s channel that fandom into watching...

12.08.2024 20

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Will Leitch

The Best of the Triumphant Paris Olympics So Far

It is such a relief to simply sit back and enjoy the Olympics. After years of having to grit our collective teeth through the Games, trying to...

30.07.2024 3

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Will Leitch

These Are the First Optimistic Olympics in a Long Time

It is wild that the Summer Olympics are starting Friday. In the middle of [looks around] all this, we’re supposed to all suddenly gather ‘round...

22.07.2024 3

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Will Leitch