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The following podcast contains explicit language. Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's National Editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of July 13th, 2020. On this week's show we'll discuss college football

conferences scaling back their seasons, Major League soccer postponing and

cancelling games, and other sports that are in, shall we say, the bargaining phase of dealing with the

pandemic. We'll also look at the case of Bruce Maxwell, the black baseball player

who kneeled during the National Anthem, and is now out of the major leagues.

And then finally, we'll talk to Denver Nuggets Guard Troy Daniels, who made news last

week by sharing a photo of his first meal inside the NBA's quarantine bubble.

I am still, so far as I can tell, here in Washington, D.C.

I'm the author of the Queen and the host of Slowburn Season 4.

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