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Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate Sports Podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of May 25th, 2014.

On this week's show, we'll catch up with the NBA playoffs, where the heat are up three games to one on the pacer's in the east.

The spurs have a two-to-one lead on the thunder in the west, though OKC has been buoyed by the surprising return of the injured Serge Abaka.

We'll then be joined by our favorite documentarian, Jonathan Hawk, who's helming a series for ESPN called Inside U.S. Soccer's March to Brazil.

We'll talk to John about the U.S. national team's prep for the World Cup and what went into coach Juergen Clemsman's decision to cut Landon Donovan from the roster.

Finally, we'll discuss the mysterious origins of the Ips, the malady that leads golfers to lose their ability to put,

baseball players to stop being able to throw, and leaves musicians unable to play music. I'm joined in Washington, D.C. by Stefan Fatsis, the author of the book's Word Freak, and a few seconds of panic. The Friday sports correspondent friend P.R. is all things considered. Do you ever just reach into the bag and you're just somehow just not able to pull out a tile? You just go in, you kind of pull out, you go in again. Yeah. Yes. Happens every day. Every game. It's an affliction that Scrabble players just suffer in silence. But today, we're going to give them a voice. Hey, Mike. Hey. It's the host of Slate's Daily podcast, The Gist, with Mike Pesco. What are you yip about, Mike? No, the same thing, pulling out a tile, but I'm involved in redoing my grotto, so it's a different time. It's just tile-based, a lot of tile-based yipping. I'm having some fresco-oriented dis... What's the word he uses? Dystonia, maybe? Focal dystonia. Old Estonia. Yeah, I'm having some fresco-oriented dis. What's the word he uses?

Dystonia, maybe?

Focal dystonia.

Focal dystonia.

Yeah, I'm having some grotto dystonia.

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