Hang Up and Listen - How Fairleigh Dickinson Did It
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🗓️ 20 March 2023
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Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, are joined by Slate’s Alex Kirshner to talk about Fairleigh Dickinson’s huge upset over Purdue and Princeton’s run to the Sweet 16. Then, ESPN’s Alden Gonzalez comes on to discuss the historic matchup between the USA and Cuba at the World Baseball Classic. Finally, author David Epstein assesses the legacy of high jumper Dick Fosbury, who invented the immortal Fosbury Flop.
Fairleigh Dickinson (2:18):Â Did the Knights pull off the biggest upset in college basketball history?
World Baseball Classic (23:59): What it meant for the Cuban national baseball team to take the field in Miami.Â
Fosbury (42:41): Where does it rank on the list of all-time sports innovations?
Afterball (1:01:32): Josh on Ole Miss women’s basketball coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of March 20th, 20203. |
| 0:13.9 | On this week's show, Slate's Alex Kirchner will be here to run through the first two rounds of the men's NCAA tournament, which featured what may have been |
| 0:21.0 | the worst loss in the history of college basketball. Sorry, Purdue. We'll also be joined by ESPN's |
| 0:26.9 | Alden Gonzalez. He'll tell us about what he saw at the historic World Baseball Classic semifinal in Miami |
| 0:32.2 | between Cuba and the United States. And finally, author David Epstein will talk with us about the legacy of Dick Fosbury, |
| 0:39.3 | the high jumper who invented the immortal Fosberry flop. |
| 0:43.3 | I'm in Washington, D.C., and I'm the author of the Queen and the host of the podcast one year. |
| 0:48.3 | Also in D.C. is Stefan Fatsis. |
| 0:50.5 | He's the author of the book's Word Freak, A Few Seconds of Panic and Wild and Outside. |
| 0:55.4 | Stefan, what is the alliterative thing that you've invented? |
| 1:01.1 | Hmm. I have to think about that. The FACs is farce. The Fatsis... |
| 1:05.0 | Probably involved failure, my kicking career, you know, if it would be something I'm known for. |
| 1:12.6 | The Fatsis field goal, fantasy, farce, fars, flop. |
| 1:18.6 | Flop. |
| 1:19.6 | I'm going to borrow from Dick Fosbury. |
| 1:22.6 | We can't honor him in enough ways. |
| 1:24.6 | Joel Anderson is busy working on Slow Burn season eight, becoming Justice |
| 1:28.6 | Thomas and his beloved frog horns of TCU fell to Gonzaga. We're thinking of you, Joel. His also |
| 1:36.0 | beloved Houston Cougars are still alive, though. In our Slate Plus segment this week, hell, or at least |
| 1:43.5 | water has frozen over because we're going to talk |
| 1:45.2 | about hockey, ice hockey, with our old friend Patrick Fort, who once produced the show and is |
| 1:50.2 | back with us filling in this week. And so we'll check in on the remarkable Boston Bruins, |
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