Hang Up and Listen - 2025: The Year in Sports
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🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 75 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
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| 0:00.0 | It is Monday, December 22nd, 2025. Welcome back to hang up and listen. The sports podcast here at Slate, |
| 0:13.8 | back with you again. I'm Alex Kirshner. I'm a contributing writer for Slate, and I co-host |
| 0:18.7 | Split Zone Duo, a national college football podcast. |
| 0:21.9 | This week, we've got a very special hang up for you. It's the 2025 year-in review of the |
| 0:27.4 | sports world, in which we're going to go into detail on about 12 stories, one for each month |
| 0:33.0 | of the year, that we think really summed up where the sports world was this year and as we turn the |
| 0:38.4 | calendar into 2026. And by we, of course, I do mean I've got some friends with me as usual. |
| 0:44.7 | Joining me this week is one, Lindsay Gibbs, women's sports lead at CBS Sports and the publisher |
| 0:50.0 | of Powerplace, a newsletter that covers the key stories of the moment in women's sports. |
| 0:54.8 | Lindsay, how are we? |
| 0:56.3 | Doing so good. Panthers, number one. |
| 0:59.3 | I feel like I have to give a Panthers update every week, and it's mandatory, and this week's is good. |
| 1:05.2 | So, you know, it's the holiday season, holiday cheer. |
| 1:08.7 | Bryce Young is here to quell your fears. |
| 1:12.8 | Wow. |
| 1:13.1 | Keep it going. |
| 1:14.0 | And then I lost it. |
| 1:15.0 | I couldn't figure it out. |
| 1:16.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:18.2 | The pounding has continued, I gather. |
| 1:20.9 | And the Panthers are in it for the NFC South. |
| 1:24.4 | Yeah. |
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