Will Leitch
Will Leitch
William F. "Will" Leitchis a writer and the founding editor of the Gawker Media sports blog Deadspin. Leitch is a senior editor at Sports on Earth, a contributing editor at New York, critic at The New Republic, culture writer for Bloomberg Politics, contributor to The New York Times, GQ, Fast Company and Slate; and has published four books, Catch, a novel, Life as a Loser, a memoir, God Save The Fan, a book of sports essays, and Are We Winning?,...
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The status quo can't continue. It should be clear that Northwest isn't too big to fail.
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The worst position to be in at any skating school is the best. There's no motivation, and everybody's taking a run at you. The smart ones realize (having competition) is going to make them better.
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No slowdown in the U.S. was visible in those figures. The sales growth rate in both volume and price exceeded my expectations.
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You might think anybody who was preparing something to go to the president would already have taken care to see that it was perfect.
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This is not a plan cooked up by executives of the company to feather their own nests.
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I remember the day before the surgery, I was walking down the hall with a guy from a premiere league over there,
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By no means are we out of it but we've got to turn these games around. This is the playoff mentality; right now, if the season finished now we'd be out of the playoffs. So obviously we're going into every game with that mentality of winning three points.
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I'm sure many people around the state would share that extreme disappointment, ... but now we'll have to see who emerges. I'm not sure there is a clear front runner right now.
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He probably knows them as judges and as people better than all but a few other people.
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All parties benefit from the clarity the deal provides.
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The judge told me I should have hit him harder, but that I was guilty because I smacked him, but granted me an absolute discharge, so there's no record of it - it's over and done with. It was a deterrent. If I wouldn't have done that, others would have thought it was OK.
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The great benefit of this hearing is that we just went through it. It had to have helped her. You've got a whole transcript to see what people are interested in. It's an excellent road map.
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I think the president himself values diversity on the courts, ... It will be something that he'll consider. But I don't think it's more or less likely to be a factor because of poll ratings or anything else going on in the short-term news cycle.
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I was a little sketchy, ... I was the first American to go over and do this and if it's my body having surgery, I'm going to worry. I couldn't understand why in the U.S. it took months to recover and she was telling me I'd be back in days. I thought, 'There's no way. It's not possible.' Even my orthopedic surgeon was like, 'Seven to 10 days? I don't know about that.'