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Hang Up and Listen

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News, Sports, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Hosts Alex Kirshner, Lindsay Gibbs, and Ben Lindbergh speak to Slate’s Nitish Pahwa about prediction markets and the legally gray future of gambling. Then they turn to college football and Bill Belichick’s messy start at UNC. The panel wraps with a discussion of Napheesa Collier’s recent criticism of WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert and the backlash it caused. On the bonus episode available exclusively for Slate Plus members, Bad Bunny hits the Super Bowl halftime stage! Prediction Markets (3:35): Kalshi’s big bet Belichick (25:12): The greatest coach keeps laying eggs WNBA (41:06): Collier vs. Engelbert (Note: time codes are only accurate for Slate Plus members, who listen ad-free.) Get more Hang Up and Listen with Slate Plus! Join for weekly bonus episodes of Hang Up and Listen and ad-free listening on all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe from the Hang Up and Listen show page on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or visit slate.com/hangupplus for access wherever you listen. You can email us at [email protected]. Podcast production and editing by Kevin Bendis, with production assistance from Patrick Fort. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It is Monday, October 6th, 2025. Welcome back to Hang Up and Listen, the sports podcast here at Slate.
0:13.0	Back with you again this week. I'm Alex Kershner. I'm a contributing writer for Slate, and I also co-host the college football show Split Zone Duo.
0:22.3	First up this week, we'll talk with a Slate staff writer, Natish Pawah, about how the federal government has quietly, for all
0:27.3	intents and purposes, made sports betting legal even in the states where it isn't officially. We'll
0:32.5	dive into the world of predictions markets and how they are changing the face of betting. We'll discuss the very early collapse of Bill Belichick's tenure as a college football coach,
0:42.2	which already looks just completely doomed at the University of North Carolina,
0:45.9	only a month in change into his first season.
0:48.6	And we will discuss the rapid escalation of a conflict between some of the WNBA's most talented and influential players
0:55.5	against the WMBA's very much embattled Commissioner Kathy Englebert.
1:00.9	As usual, joining me this week is Lindsay Gibbs, Women's Sports Lead at CBS Sports,
1:05.2	and the publisher of Power Plays, a newsletter covering the key stories of the moment in women's
1:09.5	sports.
1:10.0	Lindsay, how is your weekend?
1:11.8	Keep pounding.
1:12.8	Keep pounding.
1:13.6	Come from behind, dub, by the Carolina Panthers.
1:15.9	Yeah, NFL is back, and college football doesn't exist.
1:19.9	So, you know, everything's good.
1:24.2	And, naturally, we've got one Ben Lindberg with us. Ben is a senior editor for The Ringer,
1:29.8	and he co-hosts the effectively wild baseball podcast. Ben, how was your first weekend of
1:34.9	Division Series watching? It was intense. We are not talking baseball this week because we're right
1:40.9	in the thick of things, and whatever we say would be immediately outdated. But
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