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Leigh Montville

@lmontville.bsky.social
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Aging Boy Sportswriter. (OK, Aged Boy Sportswriter.) Boston Globe. Sports Illustrated. Ten Books, three that somehow became NYT bestsellers. Authority on practically nothing. Interested in almost everything. Always walk toward the music and bright lights.

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Leigh Montville @lmontville.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Why didn't the mentalist see that a gunman was coming to the White House Correspondents Dinner? What kind of mentalist was that?
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Leigh Montville @lmontville.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I’m just going to pretend Bruce Springsteen owns the Patriots. That’s my plan.
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Leigh Montville @lmontville.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The Board of Peace looks like an international version of the World Football League.
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Leigh Montville @lmontville.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I have no proof - none, whatsoever - but I have thought for a long time that Kawhi Leonard types of secret deals off the books have been a part of professional sports for a salary cap while. It's all too easy, the talk about 'the hometown discount.'
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Leigh Montville @lmontville.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Uh-huh.
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Leigh Montville @lmontville.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Spike Lee hasn’t had an erection like this since high school.
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Leigh Montville @lmontville.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Boston, Massachusetts, April 5, 2025: Important interview of Stable Genius.
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Leigh Montville @lmontville.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
In the waning moments of all basketball games when the color announcer says ‘they don’t need a three here, just a good shot’ the trailing team really needs a three here, not just a good shot. Truth.
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Leigh Montville @lmontville.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
It depresses me that I have to root against the stock market to show what a boob our president is.
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Leigh Montville @lmontville.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
POLITICAL SCIENCE (American Version): We grow up wanting to be Popeye. We don’t grow up wanting to be Bluto.
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Leigh Montville @lmontville.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The stench from this White House already was overwhelming. And today they took the lid off the garbage can.
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Leigh Montville @lmontville.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Even J. Edgar Hoover is throwing up in his dark corner of The Afterlife.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/02/2025
Knowledge is power…
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Leigh Montville @lmontville.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
RFK Jr. is on the job. Round up the leeches and let the bloodletting begin.
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Leigh Montville @lmontville.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
A penny for your thoughts. Oh, wait a minute...
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Leigh Montville @lmontville.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Someone should mention 1981 and the PATCO strike when Ronald Reagan fired 11,000 union air controllers and replaced them with scabs off the street. That was a key page in the Republican playbook.
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Barnes & Noble @barnesandnoble.com · 28/12/2024
There are no rules in this no man’s land between Christmas & New Years. Read all night! Don’t finish a book! Read three books at once! Just go nuts.
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Leigh Montville @lmontville.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
“Where are the reporters of yesteryear,” he muttered, “the nail-biting, acerbic, alcoholic nighthawk bastards who truly knew how to write?” - The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
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George Hahn @georgehahn.com · 23/12/2024
Could two followers please copy and re-post this tweet to show that someone is always there? National Suicide Prevention Hotline Call: 0800 689 5652 (UK) 1-800-273-8255 (USA) 1.833.456.4566 (Canada)
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Leigh Montville @lmontville.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
RIP Jim Donaldson, 73, former Providence Journal sports columnist. He was ferocious and funny, a fine combination. He'd give you his opinion, even if you didn't want to hear it. That was the fun. He will be missed.
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Leigh Montville @lmontville.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
You get a nice shiver listening to this.
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Leigh Montville @lmontville.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Don’t you love how everyone smiles during the many commercials for these diet drugs while the announcer reads three pages of possible dire outcomes? He always finishes with suicide.
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Leigh Montville @lmontville.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The Golden At-Bat sounds like a concept developed in late-night conversation at Mar-a-Lago.
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Leigh Montville @lmontville.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I’ll say this for the NFL: it hasn’t sold off the field of play for the super-imposed cyber ads that are now part of the presentation for the NHL, the NBA and MLB. Hockey has become almost unwatchable with this stuff. Cars are driving around the boards.
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Leigh Montville @lmontville.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Trying to stay away from the abrasive news channels, so turned to sports while I ate my lunch. Oops. Pat McAfee on espn. Stephen A on espn 2. Abrasive is hard to escape these days.
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Leigh Montville @lmontville.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Yes, indeed.
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Leigh Montville @lmontville.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
That Rutgers-Illinois finish will be remembered for a long, long time. Especially in New Brunswick, NJ.
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𝑀𝒶𝓎𝓇𝒶°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:・🫧 @lepapillonblue.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
He’ll forever be guilty.
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Leigh Montville @lmontville.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Ann Selzer is going to be the answer to a trivia question for a long, long time. Sort of like Bill Buckner. (Sigh.)
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Leigh Montville @lmontville.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Pssst. Over here. You wanna buy some fluoride?
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Leigh Montville @lmontville.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
@rmerullo.bsky.social
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Leigh Montville @lmontville.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I just followed Alex Speier and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez. And I feel good about myself.
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Leigh Montville @lmontville.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
If Jake Paul can survive Mike Tyson he apparently has a fight lined up with Joe Louis.
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