Hang Up | 2025: The Year in Sports

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🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Hosts Alex Kirshner, Lindsay Gibbs, and Ben Lindbergh look back on 2025, picking their top sports stories from each month—from the Luka trade and torpedo bats to a Trumpy Ryder Cup and OKC’s championship. It's been a year! On the bonus episode available exclusively for Slate Plus members, the panel unpacks Trump’s proposed Patriot Games. January - April (3:51): CFP - Rory May - August (26:58): Coco Gauff - Belichick September - December (50:43): Ryder Cup - Puka Nacua (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 Ben Richmond. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm going to tell you exactly what you need to do.
0:02.0	Dominate your finances.
0:04.0	Sunday morning, listening to questionable financial advice from the Fintock Bros on his social feed.
0:11.0	Drowning in green.
0:13.0	Scale, scale, scale, scale, scale.
0:15.0	This is the moment Isaac chose to search Barclay's life skills,
0:18.0	get some better money intel and save up for that new skateboard.
0:22.4	We're helping young people become money confident.
0:25.4	Search Barclay's life skills.
0:27.5	Barclays, make money work for you.
0:36.4	It is Monday, December 22nd, 2025.
0:40.3	Welcome back to Hang Up and Listen, the sports podcast here at Slate.
0:43.3	Back with you again, I'm Alex Kirshner.
0:46.3	I'm a contributing writer for Slate, and I co-host Split Zone Duo, a National College Football
0:51.3	podcast.
0:52.3	This week, we've got a very special hang up for you. It's the
0:55.0	2025 year in review of the sports world in which we're going to go into detail on about 12
1:01.6	stories, one for each month of the year, that we think really summed up where the sports world
1:06.4	was this year and as we turn the calendar into 26. And by we, of course, I do mean I've got some
1:12.9	friends with me as usual joining me this week is one Lindsay Gibbs, women's sports lead at CBS
1:18.6	Sports and the publisher of Powerplace, a newsletter that covers the key stories of the moment
1:23.5	in women's sports. Lindsay, how are we? Doing so good.
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