Melanie: Afternoon report: Who knew Will Leitch wrote for Sporting News ...

Will Leitch: ?I?ve been the front-of-the-book columnist for Sporting News for more than four years now and I don?t personally know a single person who knows that fact, outside my family and my editors there.

Leitch in Sporting News

?The only people I?ve ever met who knew I was the columnist were people who personally emailed the address next to the column itself. Many of them people were in prison or currently, that second, in the dentist office.? (leitch.tumblr.com)
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