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Sports Podcast, hang up and listen for the week of January 11th,

2022.

On this week's show, we'll discuss Georgia's 33 to 18 win over Alabama on Monday night for its first college football

national championship since 1980. We'll also break down the wild emotional ride that was the Chargers Raiders NFL

regular season finale. Tennis writer Ben Rothenburg will help explain the

bonkers ongoing story of unvaccinated Novak Jokovich at the Australian Open

and we're going to pick a sports word of the year, Swo-Dowdie.

I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm the author of Word Freak a few seconds of panic and wild and

outside in the 1980s I covered the murder of an alligator at a zoo in

Palm Beach, Florida.

I did.

Josh Levine is also in DC.

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