Hang Up and Listen - The Ballad of Lane Kiffin
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Hosts Alex Kirshner, Lindsay Gibbs, and Ben Lindbergh discuss Lane Kiffin’s latest dramatic exit, leaving Ole Miss for LSU right before a playoff run. Then, CBS Sports’ Matt Norlander explains the big money behind the launch of the new in-season college basketball tournament, the Players Era. Finally, the panel looks at two NBA legends: Chris Paul (nearing retirement), and LeBron James (somehow finding another gear).
On the bonus episode available exclusively for Slate Plus members, the panel discusses the ups and downs of Arch Manning’s first season.
Lane Kiffin (4:51): Won’t be Miss’d
College Basketball (22:25): A new mid-season tournament
LeBron (46:18): The undying career
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| 0:00.0 | It is Monday, December 1st, 2025. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome back to Hang Up and Listen, the sports podcast here at Slate. |
| 0:13.0 | Back with you this week, I'm Alex Kirchner. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm a contributing writer for Slate, and they also co-host the College Football Podcast Split Zone Duo. |
| 0:21.8 | Big show for you this week. It'll actually start with some college football. We're going to talk |
| 0:25.5 | about the latest in the coaching carousel, which Lane Kiffin finally kicked into overdrive on |
| 0:30.1 | Saturday and Sunday. What a mess of historic proportions. Then we're going to bring on a great guest, |
| 0:35.4 | CBS Sports College Basketball writer Matt Norlander, |
| 0:38.1 | to tell us about a new in-season tournament that seems to be a pending a big part of college |
| 0:42.8 | basketball's traditional business and scheduling models. |
| 0:46.2 | And we're going to talk about the vastly different experiences that two men in their 40s, |
| 0:50.8 | LeBron James and Chris Paul, are currently having in the city of Los Angeles. |
| 0:55.2 | As usual, with me for it all, is the women's sports lead at CBS Sports and the publisher |
| 1:00.2 | of Power Play's Lindsay Gibbs. Lindsay, how was your weekend? |
| 1:03.7 | I had a great Thanksgiving, and I've decorated for Christmas, or started the decorating, |
| 1:10.4 | at least. I don't decorate before |
| 1:12.0 | Thanksgiving, so it's a little bit of a rush afterwards. Thank you. Yeah, you're welcome. I'm pretty, |
| 1:18.5 | you know, I don't have many morals when it comes to this stuff. We have to have standards. We have |
| 1:23.4 | standards or we don't. Yeah. I like the fall season. I like to have, I decorate for fall, |
| 1:28.6 | so I need those to stay up. And then, you know, I don't know, but I, you know, I've gotten in the |
| 1:33.9 | habit of just mentioning the Panthers, the start of every one of our little chats. And I feel |
| 1:37.9 | like I got to mention them today, beating the Rams. So it was a fun weekend, start to finish. |
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