Will Leitch, editor of the online magazine Deadspin and author of God Save The Fan, was the managing editor of the Daily Illini in 1996.
New York magazine writer Will Leitch criticized the episode, claiming the main story between Meredith and Michael seemed forced and did not work.
While there, he was an editor at the University's paper, the Daily Illini.
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During the 2007 NCAA Tournament, Leitch wrote a daily column for TimesSelect, the paid section of The New York Times.
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Leitch was criticized by Pulitzer-Prize winning author Buzz Bissinger on an April 2008 episode of Costas Now for the lack of quality writing on sports blogs.
In a post by Deadspin assistant editor Rick Chandler, a source (whom site editor Will Leitch called "a respected journalist") claimed that in the mid-1990s, a friend of his was flirting in a bar with an attractive woman wearing leather pants and holding a leather jacket.
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