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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Also we got to make some Nick Saban jokes. www.nytimes.com/athletic/766...

Last week, former Alabama coach Nick Saban, a once-legendary leader of men whose decision to spend his golden years attempting to sell you insurance and timeshares while hanging out with Ted Cruz and Pat McAfee is basically an argument against retirement as a general concept, said on the set of “College GameDay” that “If I was coaching right now, I’d be trying to get (Mississippi State quarterback) Kamario Taylor to get into the portal.”

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Happy Fourth, everyone, and happy fifth anniversary to the proudest moment of my career.

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This was a very, very cool thing to get to see in person.

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

We started the streak in Atlanta a month ago LET’S GOOOOOO

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The paperback version of LLOYD MCNEIL'S LAST RIDE is out today. It is a good book that I am proud of, and I think if you have not read it, you would like it. You can buy it wherever books are sold, and also here: www.harpercollins.com/products/llo...

The cover of the paperback version of LLOYD MCNEIL'S LAST RIDE.

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Second—and final, I think—NYC marathon completed. Just an experience like nothing else. If you happen to see me today, please be somewhat careful; if you even slightly bump into me I may shatter into millions of pieces.

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Oh, if only there had ever been any silence, ever, to break.

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

This is the Vice President. Of America. Like, right now.

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

williamfleitch.substack.com/p/volume-5-i...

There are two types of people in the world: People who are late all the time, and everyone else, the rest of us, constantly scrambling around trying to make up for how rude they are. Late people try to act as if their chronic lateness is some sort of charming personality quirk, like having a goofy laugh, or a dimple. But what a late person really is is someone who constantly lets you know that they don’t value your time—that they believe themselves more important than you. Always being late is not a fact of being. It is a decision you consistently make not to consider the lives of the people in your life. It is claim of dominion over others. It is some rude shit.

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

If you're in the DC area, come out to Wonderland Books in Bethesda, tonight, 7 p.m. ET, July 30. We'll talk LLOYD MCNEIL'S LAST RIDE and sports things, and you can yell at me for apparently not liking the new NAKED GUN movie as much as everyone else. Also, there is air conditioning. Come on out!

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

@bencollins.bsky.social Little light reading at the Cards game tonight.

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

@mikevorkunov.bsky.social Found this in some archives. Don’t you miss when you did REAL journalism?

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Hey, Los Angeles! Come to Book Soup tonight and see me talk about LLOYD MCNEIL'S LAST RIDE. 7 p.m. PT I will give you a hug.

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

This is exactly how it felt in OKC this morning.

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Thanks to Amazon Books for choosing LLOYD MCNEIL'S LAST RIDE as one of their best books of the first half of 2025. I do believe one of my rewards is to be shot into space as an inspiration to women everywhere. www.amazon.com/b/?_encoding...

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

So anyway, yeah: LLOYD MCNEIL'S LAST RIDE. The new book. Out today. You'll like it. I hope you buy it wherever you buy your books. Albert Pujols wants you to. www.harpercollins.com/products/llo...

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I am very happy with how this book turned out, and I think you will be too. It is my attempt to wrestle with what it's like being a parent right now and not knowing what sort of world we're leaving for our children. Of doing your best to protect them, and guide them, while you can.

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Here is the clip of my appearance on @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social, talking about LLOYD MCNEIL'S LAST RIDE, a book that you can walk into your local bookstore on Tuesday morning and buy with your American dollars.

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Always honored to contribute to "MLB Now"'s Literary Fiction Segment.

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I loved Ralph Wiley so much he had me believing Frank Williams was going to lead the Knicks to a title until roughly, oh, 2014. www.espn.com/page2/s/wile...

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

There was no way I wasn't getting Frank in there. I still remember Ralph Wiley getting me VERY excited about him. www.espn.com/page2/s/wile...

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

My novel LLOYD MCNEIL'S LAST RIDE comes out May 20, a week from today. I am very proud of it. If you have ever read anything I've written and thought it wasn't terrible, you would very much like this. Thus, I think you should buy it. This is my sales pitch. Hi. www.harpercollins.com/products/llo...

Richard Russo's praising Will Leitch's novel LLOYD MCNEIL'S LAST RIDE.

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Courtside the last time the Knicks made the Eastern Conference Finals:

Jerry Seinfeld sitting next to Diddy at the 1999 NBA Eastern Conference Finals.

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

This has very "Chicago's Big Ten Team" energy.

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Honored that LLOYD MCNEIL'S LAST RIDE was chosen as an Amazon Editors Pick for the month of May. I assume this means I get to be shot into space as an inspirational example for women everywhere. www.amazon.com/Lloyd-McNeil...

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Trout has always played in that liminal space between constantly praised and underseen that only baseball can provide. His all-around brilliance has been captured best by advanced analytics, and statheads were his earliest champions; his WAR numbers dwarfed the rest of baseball’s immediately, and he became, in a way, a hipster cause for advanced analytics.

But, oddly, the constant praise among smart fans led to a backlash among more casual fans who don’t care about ZiPS or PECOTA and, instead, wondered why the supposed best player in baseball always played for lousy teams. I have always been amazed by how many people, unsolicited, have told me over the last decade that Trout was “overrated,” even though the numbers clearly showed the opposite. Trout was so comparatively obscure compared with his ability that it’s hard to imagine anyone describing the conversation about him as “hype-filled.” But those fans weren’t really saying Trout was overrated. They were saying they didn’t like the stats that best reflected his genius. To ignore Trout was to ignore those stats — something many old-school baseball fans very much wanted to do.

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I focused on Cooper Flagg, Kasparas Jakucionis and Danny Wolf as players thriving in college hoops and helping their future NBA careers precisely BECAUSE of NIL and the transfer portal. Also Alabama's Mark Sears: He now gets to stay on his team AND make money. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

What’s fascinating about these players, as well as most of the players projected to be selected in the first round, is that they all have all thrived specifically because they’re playing college basketball — and being paid to do so. Flagg is your traditional one-and-done freshman who not so long ago might have bypassed college basketball entirely. Jakucionis, in the past, would have stayed in Europe, unknown to the average U.S. fan until his name was called on draft night, were it not for the “Name, Image, and Likeness” money with which Illinois lured him to America to play on prime-time network television and in front of NBA scouts. Wolf, for that matter, is a transfer who toiled in (successful) obscurity at Yale for two seasons before Michigan offered him NIL money to transfer to Ann Arbor, where he has shown his ability to handle the larger spotlight so well that he has gone from Ivy League curio to first-round pick.

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

New LLOYD MCNEIL'S LAST RIDE blurb just dropped. (You can pre-order the book, I think you will like it.) www.harpercollins.com/products/llo...

Praise for LLOYD MCNEIL’S LAST RIDE

"Lloyd McNeil's Last Ride” broke my heart. And then it somehow mended that shattered heart, made it beat more buoyantly than before. We need books like this and writers like Will Leitch now more than ever.” – Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and the North Bath Trilogy of Fool novels

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

As usual, I spent way too much time on my Goodreads review for my book. www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

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