Will Leitch

I wrote about the bad soccer game for @nymag. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

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

It was my turn to write about Alexi Lalas, just punching my time card here, it was time to make the donuts. wapo.st/43UrQnW

@PatrickOchs @seeingredpod Ha. Well, people do!

@williamfleitch one recent observation of the @seeingredpod: You’re a great teammate to Bernie. It’s almost a weekly therapy session for him. Bernie: (Summarized) I’m old man yelling at cloud who’s ignored. Will (reassuringly): People pay attention to you.

“The U.F.C. crew may have felt like barbarian invaders at the gates of democracy, but they also may have been behaving better and more ethically than the family they were there to entertain and ostensibly honor,” Will Leitch writes. nyti.ms/4emFNj8

@marlermedia I was press entry, so I'm the wrong person to ask. But everyone seemed to be in relatively quickly.

@williamfleitch What was pre-match access like? Organized, chaotic, long wait times? I'm coming Sunday and want to be prepared.

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

Gift link, if you are not a subscriber. nytimes.com/2026/06/15/opi…

The nice folks at @nytimes asked me to watch UFC Freedom 250 and write about it, so I did. It made me want to kick someone in the chest. nytimes.com/2026/06/15/opi…

For @NYMag, I wrote about history, and believing, and New York. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

I was delighted to talk World Cup, and all the madness surrounding it, with Kara Swisher, alongside the great @Bachscore and @tariqpanja. youtu.be/CtMrswnaXck?si…

I wrote about movies for young people, by young people, from every generation. williamfleitch.substack.com/p/volume-6-iss…

On the ZL Show Finals preview, I (speaking from experience) talk about my personal 180 on "bandwagon" or "fair weather" fans. open.spotify.com/episode/7FgLeM…

@TEKTMZ @C70 I'm behind you right now.

@C70 @williamfleitch Some things are better left unvisualized

If you had said in April that an MLB writer would have his shirt off in the stands it wouldn’t have been surprising. The fact that it is @williamfleitch, though, that’s a twist.

@ZachLowe_NBA Considering I'd never even stepped foot in New York until 1999, I'll always kinda feel like a bandwagon fan myself. (Though the intense, extremely misguided belief I once had in Anthony Randolph hopefully bought me some bonafides.)

For @NYMag, I put together a guide for bandwagon Knicks fans. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

I wrote about "Star Wars" movies not really mattering any more, and how that happened. washingtonpost.com/opinions/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: harpercollins.com/products/lloyd…

“Next Thursday night, CBS will air Stephen Colbert’s final episode of ’The Late Show.‘ It will be emotional, but it will also be tangled in the tension of our fraught era,” @williamfleitch writes. wapo.st/4wvx3zw