A.J. Daulerio Named New Editor of Deadspin

A.J. Daulerio has been named the successor to the great Will Leitch to take over editing duties at Deadspin. The Internet's most popular and powerful sports blog is now run by a paisan from Philadelphia.

As many of you know, A.J. spent about a year at Philadelphia Magazine before leaving to become a Senior Writer for the site he is now taking over. We hear there may be some major changes to the direction of the site and look forward to following along for the ride.

A new staffer, Clay Travis, will also be joining the fold.

We just hope there's still plenty of Balls Deep.

Congratulations to A.J. and we look forward to the new direction he will take the site in. He's got big shoes to fill but he certainly has the writing chops and reporting skills to pull it off. Plus, he's an Eagles fan. We know our shit.

We'd be remiss not to give praise to Will on his way out the door. Deadspin has been one of our favorite daily reads over the past few years, almost entirely due to Will's voice, and its success has certainly helped sites like this one gain in popularity.

Will is moving on to write for New York magazine and we'll look forward to reading him there as well as at The Sporting News. He also won't be disappearing from Deadspin completely where he hopes to maintain a Tom Brokaw type roll as elder statesman.

Best of luck to both Will and A.J. in their new endeavors.

We'll leave you with this tribute video put together by the brilliant J.E. Skeets.

Comments

[Bryan]

I hope they get ahold of another ESPN internal memo.

[theKrisheim]

something else philly can now get blamed for when it goes in to the toilet.

[Chamomiles Davis]

Actually, Drew Magary (aka "Big Daddy Drew"), not AJ, writes "Balls Deep."

[enrico]

Mr. Davis,

Totally realize that. But what I was getting at was the fact that Drew wasn't mentioned specifically in the new post... So I hope we still get lots of him.

[Chamomiles Davis]

Enrico,

Ah. Please forgive my know-it-all douchery. I just assumed that Drew would stay on as a contributing writer, but I guess that remains to be seen.

[johndewar]

Congrats to AJ.....I wonder how Sean Salisbury feels about all of this.

[Jewbacca]

Leitch = Elder Statesman
Now = End Of The World

[ill]

Good to see AJ getting his due. Deadspin will be an everyday read as it has always been.

I still am not eligible as a poster over there though.

[How do you spell retard?]

It's gonna be way tougher for Deadspin to win any blogs v. newspaper debate now.
I think Daulerio's Benoit Cultural Oddsmaker is what got him the job.

[GreggyD]

I'm not eligible as a poster either. Apparently, either I don't know what I'm talking about or I'm not funny enough. I understand that their servers would probably explode if they allowed everyone to comment, but I commented one time, it didn't get posted, and then I could never comment again. That's one thing that I hate about the website. Even when I emailed them and asked why, I didn't get a response. Maybe you guys can help me out...why do they do that?

[will]

@GreggyD: Apparently you're only able to post over there if you throw in a DUAN reference every other comment.