Hang Up and Listen - The Blind Side’s Blind Spots
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Josh Levin and Stefan Fatsis are joined by Yahoo Sports’ Henry Bushnell to talk about Spain’s Women’s World Cup victory and the turmoil that preceded it. The New York Times’ Kurt Streeter joins to discuss the controversy over The Blind Side. Finally, ESPN’s Luis Miguel Echegaray assesses Lionel Messi’s brilliant opening month with Inter Miami.
Spain (3:27): The story behind La Roja’s World Cup win and everything that came before.
The Blind Side (28:12): Revisiting the book and the movie in light of Michael Oher’s allegations.
Messi (52:56): Could anyone have imagined that his transition to America would go this well this quickly?
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| 1:00.0 | The following podcast includes explicit language, including, well, you and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of August 21st, |
| 1:25.5 | 2003. |
| 1:27.2 | On this week's show, Yahoo Sports is Henry Bushnell will join us to talk about Spain's |
| 1:31.1 | win in the Women's World Cup and the bitter conflict between Spanish players |
| 1:35.3 | and their own Federation that preceded it. |
| 1:38.1 | The New York Times is Kurt Streeter will also come on |
| 1:40.2 | to talk about the controversy over the blind side. Michael O'R's claim that the white family |
| 1:44.7 | who took him in also took advantage of him financially. And finally, E.S. P. N.'s Louise Miguel |
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