The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, hang up and listen for the week of June 13th, 2016.

On today's show, we're going to talk about Draymond Green suspension for game five of the NBA finals for repeated low blows. We'll also talk

about the ethics of trash talk and Green's teammates contention that LeBron James just got his feelings

hurt. We'll discuss the U.S. men's soccer team's victorious jaunt through group play at the Copa

America Centenario and Brazil's ignominious exit from the tournament.

And will be joined by Bruce Arthur of the Toronto Star to assess the Pittsburgh Penguin Stanley

Cup win, Sidney Crosby's Coronation as playoff MVP, and the death of Gordie Howe, aka Mr.

Hockey. Joining me in Washington, D.C. is Mr. Scrabble, Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak, and a few seconds of panic. You are not yet, Mr. Kicker. You're working your way up there. I'm Mr. 29 down, is what I am. Congratulations on Saturday. It's a Saturday puzzle, like, being in the New York Times. And it was your name that was in there.

It wasn't just that your name, your name was actually written in pencil slash pin by billions of

people across the world. Or typed into their computers. That's big. I know. I mean,

word freak had been in there a couple times. I was the acrostic after the book came out. That's big. I know. I mean, word freak had been in there a couple times. I was the

acrostic after the book came out. That probably was the highlight of my life. But the name,

the name. Pesca, come on. You got some catching up to do here. Well, I mean, I don't want to brag,

but most Sudoku's are my social security number.

I don't like to put that out there for security reasons.

But, you know, I've been pretty influential in the newspaper 20 Minutes to Spare Game myself.

And I feel like there are coded messages being sent to me in the family circus. That are commanding me to undergo various acts. Mike, you were the role model for the boy and Nancy, weren't you? I was sluggo. Yeah. I have some sluggo about me, yes. And Jeffie from Family Circus. Yes. That's Mike Pascoe, the host of Slate's Daily Podcast, The Gist.

That's a good amount of banter.

In our bonus segment for Slate Plus members, we're going to evaluate and perhaps lightly mock the latest version of Steph Curry's sneakers.

Joining us to do that will be DJ author and sneakerhead, Babito Garcia.

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