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Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate Sports Podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of April 4th, 2016.

On today's show, we'll be joined by Women's World Cup winning goalkeeper Brianne Scurry, who will speak with us about the U.S.

women's national soccer team's push for equal pay.

We'll also be joined by Bruce Schoenfeld to discuss his piece in the New York Times magazine on the venture capitalist who took over the Golden State Warriors, fellows who believe

their management style has contributed to the team's success.

Finally, we're going to celebrate baseball's

opening day by talking about a mysterious rise in home runs and what might explain it.

Joining me in Washington, D.C. is Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic.

Hello, Stefan. Hello, Josh. And with us in New York is Mike Peska, the host of Slate's Daily podcast, The Gist,

and Mike has just discovered the existence of 120-sided die, so he's very excited.

Yeah, my inner dungeon master has just gotten tweaked.

I'm more excited about the 120-sided die than the NCAA championship game, and maybe it's

because I'm on the ESPN homepage, and here are the two top stories about the game. Why North Carolina and Villanova need this title more than ever. I reject the premise. What's the title you don't need? What's the state where it's like, nah, they can skip this one. Why would Villanova need the title? North Carolina, I guess it will take away the stench of all that tutoring scandal.

But then the second story is a video link, Greenie, Mike Greenberg, that means, colon playing basketball in a stadium is, quote, an absolute travesty, which is a fine enough quasi sentence, except it says the link

is two minutes, 20 seconds long. What more do you need? What two minutes, 18 seconds more do you

need to know than that playing basketball in a stadium is an absolute travesty? Because,

you know, travesty in and of itself is a word not absolute enough

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