Hang Up and Listen - Baseball’s First Openly Gay Player
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🗓️ 9 March 2021
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Summary
Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin discuss the NBA All-Star Game and the state of the league a year after it suspended play due to COVID-19. They also talk about a new report on LSU’s failures to deal with sexual assault claims and allegations about the school’s ex-football coach Les Miles. Finally, Andrew Maraniss joins for a conversation about his book Singled Out, on the plight of the gay baseball player Glenn Burke.
NBA (1:55): What has the NBA learned, if anything, during our year-long pandemic?
LSU (18:54): How should the school respond to a report laying out its Title IX failures?
Singled Out (38:49): What Glenn Burke went through, and what his legacy means today.
Afterballs (57:40): Stefan on Muhammad Ali’s activities before his first fight with Joe Frazier and Josh on listeners’ favorite free throws.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast includes explicit language, including, well, you'll just have to wait and see. |
| 0:11.6 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of March 8th, 2021. |
| 0:18.6 | On this week's show, we're going to talk about the NBA All-Star game and where we are a year |
| 0:23.0 | after the league's suspended play due to COVID-19. We'll also discuss the new report about |
| 0:28.5 | LSU's failures to deal with sexual assault claims and its failure to deal with its former |
| 0:33.4 | head football coach, Les Miles. Finally, author Andrew Marinus will join us for a conversation |
| 0:38.9 | about his book singled out on the plight of the gay baseball player and the inventor of the high five, |
| 0:44.4 | Glenn Burke. I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm the author of The Queen and the host of Slow Burn |
| 0:48.6 | Season 4 on David Duke. Also in D.C. is Stefan Fatsas. He is the author of the book's Word Freak in a few seconds of panic. |
| 0:56.4 | Hello, Stefan. Hi, Josh. With us from the South Bay, the great state of California. |
| 1:02.2 | The South Bay home of a statue of a car running on naked human legs. Slate Staff writer, host of Slow Burn season 3 and 6. |
| 1:09.7 | Joel Anderson, are you familiar with that statue, Joel? No, I'm not. What is that from, actually? It's in Bowden Park or Bowden Park in Palo Alto. Is it really? Okay. Maybe you should go out on a field trip and let us know, let us know what it looks like. I'm surprised I've missed that, But, you know, hey, man, there's a lot more to |
| 1:27.8 | Paulo Alto than, you know, than meets the eye. Okay, so later in the show, we're going to talk |
| 1:33.9 | about free throws last week. We had Nick Green on to talk about his book, How to Watch Basketball |
| 1:39.6 | Like a Genius, and we asked people to send in their favorite free throws, and we got a ton of |
| 1:43.8 | of great emails. |
| 1:44.9 | We're going to go through those later. |
| 1:46.1 | We will also get to pack Joel Anderson's favorite word. |
| 1:51.6 | We'll get to that in our bonus segment for Slate Plus members. |
| 1:54.5 | My triumphant return. |
| 1:55.8 | But first. |
| 1:57.2 | A year ago this week, Utah Jazz Center, Rudy Gobert, tested positive for COVID-19. |
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