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Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of August 10th, 2020.

On this week's show, we'll discuss the likely to be non-existent 2020 college football season and why it's not going to happen. Maybe it will. Probably won't. We'll also talk about the latest

from inside the NBA bubble, where Damian Lillard is beefing with the clippers, and Luca

Donchich is very good at basketball. And finally, we'll discuss the ouster of Texas Tech

women's basketball coach Marlene Stallings and the state of the sideline tyrant.

I'm the author of The Queen, the host of Slow Burn Season 4. I'm coming to you from Washington, D.C.

My crony, Stefan Fatsis, is off this week. With me, as always, from the West Coast, another crony. Slade staff writer, host of Slow Burn Season 3, Mr. Joel Anderson. Hello, Joel. Thanks for having me this weekend. I'm glad to be a crony with you, Josh. Thank you for having me. I don't have you. We have each other, Joel. That's true. That's true. We're in this together. Not Stefan, of course.

Joining us this week, Slate's chief news blogger, Joel's former boss, America's favorite Michigan fan.

It's Ben Mathis Lilley. Hello, Ben.

Hey, guys. Wow. That's all we're going to get from you today. No chatter. I'm ready to get right to the issues. I'm just, you know, I'm so focused on sports news and commentary that I don't have time for small talk. Joel, you want to get right to it? Yeah, let's do it. So, by the time you hear this segment, we might not have any college football to look forward to this fall.

The news was moving that fast over the weekend.

Friday night, we learned there would be no FCS championship after the Big Sky Conference said it would move its season to the spring.

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