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Leigh Montville

@lmontville

Aging Boy Sportswriter. (OK, Aged Boy Sportswriter.) Boston Globe. Sports Illustrated. Ten Books, three that somehow became NYT bestsellers. Authority on practically nothing. Interested in almost everything. Always walk toward the music and bright lights.

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I’m just going to pretend Bruce Springsteen owns the Patriots. That’s my plan.

31.01.2026 02:54 👍 22 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

The Board of Peace looks like an international version of the World Football League.

22.01.2026 22:17 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Forty-one years. Have I lost or gained brain cells in that time? I say stayed the same.

29.11.2025 14:48 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I have no proof - none, whatsoever - but I have thought for a long time that Kawhi Leonard types of secret deals off the books have been a part of professional sports for a salary cap while. It's all too easy, the talk about 'the hometown discount.'

05.09.2025 20:07 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Maybe on the bounce.

24.07.2025 01:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Uh-huh.

14.05.2025 15:56 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Spike Lee hasn’t had an erection like this since high school.

08.05.2025 22:19 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Boston, Massachusetts, April 5, 2025: Important interview of Stable Genius.

05.04.2025 22:01 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Absolutely.

21.03.2025 15:17 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In the waning moments of all basketball games when the color announcer says ‘they don’t need a three here, just a good shot’ the trailing team really needs a three here, not just a good shot. Truth.

12.03.2025 04:23 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Definitely NOT.

11.03.2025 20:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It depresses me that I have to root against the stock market to show what a boob our president is.

11.03.2025 18:20 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Heinz.

04.03.2025 05:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

POLITICAL SCIENCE (American Version): We grow up wanting to be Popeye. We don’t grow up wanting to be Bluto.

02.03.2025 21:39 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The stench from this White House already was overwhelming. And today they took the lid off the garbage can.

28.02.2025 20:09 👍 26 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Even J. Edgar Hoover is throwing up in his dark corner of The Afterlife.

21.02.2025 01:06 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Exactly. Sad to see.

19.02.2025 03:50 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Knowledge is power…

16.02.2025 14:55 👍 34771 🔁 13116 💬 1001 📌 699

Still not a month yet.

15.02.2025 17:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

RFK Jr. is on the job. Round up the leeches and let the bloodletting begin.

13.02.2025 21:20 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

A penny for your thoughts. Oh, wait a minute...

10.02.2025 20:54 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Someone should mention 1981 and the PATCO strike when Ronald Reagan fired 11,000 union air controllers and replaced them with scabs off the street. That was a key page in the Republican playbook.

30.01.2025 21:43 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

There are no rules in this no man’s land between Christmas & New Years.

Read all night! Don’t finish a book! Read three books at once!

Just go nuts.

28.12.2024 13:39 👍 7949 🔁 829 💬 136 📌 60

“Where are the reporters of yesteryear,” he muttered, “the nail-biting, acerbic, alcoholic nighthawk bastards who truly knew how to write?” - The Shipping News, Annie Proulx

28.12.2024 02:49 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Could two followers please copy and re-post this tweet to show that someone is always there?

National Suicide Prevention Hotline

Call: 0800 689 5652 (UK)
1-800-273-8255 (USA)
1.833.456.4566 (Canada)

23.12.2024 20:09 👍 500 🔁 422 💬 44 📌 76

RIP Jim Donaldson, 73, former Providence Journal sports columnist. He was ferocious and funny, a fine combination. He'd give you his opinion, even if you didn't want to hear it. That was the fun. He will be missed.

19.12.2024 22:02 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

You get a nice shiver listening to this.

17.12.2024 05:05 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Don’t you love how everyone smiles during the many commercials for these diet drugs while the announcer reads three pages of possible dire outcomes? He always finishes with suicide.

08.12.2024 02:41 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

The Golden At-Bat sounds like a concept developed in late-night conversation at Mar-a-Lago.

04.12.2024 00:40 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’ll say this for the NFL: it hasn’t sold off the field of play for the super-imposed cyber ads that are now part of the presentation for the NHL, the NBA and MLB. Hockey has become almost unwatchable with this stuff. Cars are driving around the boards.

03.12.2024 02:18 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0