Will Leitch's Legendary Win Ben Stein's Money Disaster

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 Will Leitch's Legendary Win Ben Stein's Money Disaster
Before he edited Deadspin.com and wrote God Save The Fan: (Longest Subtitle Ever) , sports blogger Will Leitch had an online column (and later, book ) called Life As A Loser . The genesis of the column was Will's disastrous appearance on the Comedy Central game show Win Ben Stein's Money in the Spring of '97, the night before which young Will was unceremoniously dumped by his fiance. So ... [link]

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Will Leitch Did Not Win Ben Stein's Money [From The Vaults]
Published 6/24/2008 by Pareene at Gawker
... on Comedy Central's Win Ben Stein's Money. You may know Will as the blogger who brought Deadspin into the world, wrote some books, and who is now leaving the internet to be a columnist at New York. In 1997, though, he was a dude who just got dumped by his fiance and was now on television for some reason attempting a Woody Allen impression. Will wrote about the experience for the Black Table many moons ago, and now we see that the video is actually online. Amazing. ...

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Will Leitch Did Not Win Ben Stein's Money [From The Vaults]

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