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Hi, I'm Stefan Fatsis, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of March 28th, 2022.

On this week's show, Nicole Auerbach of The Athletic will be with us to break down the all-blue blood men's final Four, Duke, North Carolina,

Hube, and Villanova, Kansas, as well as the latest in the women's tournament.

New York Times national politics reporter, CNN political analyst, and for the purposes of this show, soccer fan, Astead Herndon,

will be here to discuss the U.S. men's national soccer team's crucial 5-1 blowout of Panama and other news in World Cup qualifying.

Finally, we've got an interview with ESPN's Bomani Jones about his new HBO sports talk show game theory with Bomani Jones.

Josh Levine is enjoying a deserved break after editing my slate piece about playing that

crazy word, Bushveld, at a Scrabble tournament.

I'm really pleased with how that one turned out.

Everyone should go read it.

I am still the author of Word Freak, A Few Seconds of Panic and Wild and Outside.

I am back in Washington, D.C. from Mexico City, where I watched the USA and Mexico play to a zero-zero

draw at fabled Estadio Azteca last week. Long way to go to see no goals from inside barbed wire

in the uppermest part of the upper deck.

But I'm glad I made the trip, and I'll talk about it in the afterball segment.

Joining me from Palo Alto, California, it's Slate staff writer Joel Anderson,

the host of Slow Burn Season 6, the L.A. Riots, which last week won an Ambie Award for

Excellence in Audio as Best History Podcast.

Congratulations, Joel.

Oh, thank you, Seth.

I appreciate you saying that.

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