Hang Up and Listen - Hang Up and Listen: The Breaking News Edition
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2014
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss Paul George’s leg injury and its implications. They also talk with Slate’s Emily Bazelon about college sports and sexual assault, and interview Baseball Prospectus’ Sam Miller about MLB’s trade deadline.Show notes at www.slate.com/hangup.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.0 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate Sports Podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of August 4th, 2014. |
| 0:14.0 | On this week's show, we'll talk about Paul George's gruesome leg injury during a USA basketball scrimmage, |
| 0:20.4 | and whether this is the end of top |
| 0:22.0 | NBA players competing in the World Championships and the Olympics. Our slate colleague |
| 0:27.4 | Emily Bazelon will then join us to assess the appalling reports about rapes at the Air Force Academy |
| 0:32.9 | and the seemingly unrelenting crisis of sexual assault on campus and in college sports in particular. |
| 0:39.8 | We'll also be joined by Baseball Perspectus editor-in-chief Sam Miller to discuss last week's flurry of deadline moves, |
| 0:46.4 | what the John Lester and David Price trades reveal about contemporary deal-making. |
| 0:51.8 | In our bonus segment for Slate Plus members, we'll look at the start of the NFL preseason |
| 0:56.9 | and the debut of the 33-yard extra point. |
| 1:00.5 | Stephen, yay! |
| 1:01.9 | Hold your fire. |
| 1:03.0 | Joining me in Washington, D.C., it is Stefan Fatsis, the author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds of panic. |
| 1:09.0 | The Friday sports correspondent for NPR's All Things Considered. |
| 1:12.1 | Hello, Stefan. |
| 1:12.9 | Hello, Josh. |
| 1:14.4 | And with us from New York, is Mike Peska, the host of Slate's Daily podcast, The Gist. |
| 1:20.1 | With Mike Peska. |
| 1:22.6 | Hello, Mike. |
| 1:24.4 | Will you be my jingaleer? |
| 1:26.5 | Will you be my jingleer? Will you be my jingleer? |
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