Hang Up and Listen - Football’s Private Equity Hail Mary
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🗓️ 26 August 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Slate contributing writer and co-host of the podcast Split Zone Duo, Alex Kirshner hosts this week’s Hang Up and Listen. Alex is joined by The Ringer’s Ben Lindbergh and founder of the Power Plays newsletter, Lindsay Gibbs for a discussion of private equity in the NFL and college football. Later, they break down the National Women’s Soccer League and the NWSL Players Association's new collective bargaining agreement. Plus, Joey Votto’s retirement and the decline of power players at first base in the MLB.
Football (2:25): Private equity invests in the NFL and CFB.
NWSL (22:55): The National Women’s Soccer League strikes a deal with the Players Association.
Baseball (43:27): Has the time of dominant first basemen and juggernaut teams evaporated?
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| 0:56.2 | I'm Alex Kirsner. I'm filling in here on Hang Up and Listen. |
| 1:01.9 | You might remember me from frequent guesting |
| 1:03.8 | appearances over the years with the brilliant Josh Levine, Stephen Fatsus, and |
| 1:07.8 | Joel Anderson. I'm also a contributing writer for Slate and I am a co-host of |
| 1:11.8 | Split Zone Duo that's a national |
| 1:13.6 | college football podcast busy time of year for us and also be with you a little bit |
| 1:18.0 | here this fall on Hangup. It's my honor to be joined today by Lindsay Gibbs. |
| 1:22.0 | Lindsay is the author and founder of Powerplace. |
| 1:25.0 | It's a bi-weekly newsletter that adds critical context |
| 1:27.5 | to the biggest women's sports stories of the day. |
| 1:30.4 | She was formerly the co-host of the feminist sports podcast Burn It All Down, which was excellent. |
| 1:35.0 | And she has written for Business Insider, The Athletic, The Ringer, Bleacher Report, and USA Today, among others, in her nearly 15 years as a very prolific sports journalist. |
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