Hang Up and Listen - The Breaks of the Game Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2019
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by Damon Young to discuss Zion Williamson and the NCAA. ESPN’s Scott Eden also joins to talk about disgraced NBA ref Tim Donaghy and Deadspin’s Dvora Meyers assesses whether breaking should be an Olympic sport. Zion Williamson (1:24): In the aftermath of his shoe explosion and knee injury, should the 18-year-old superstar leave college basketball for good? Tim Donaghy (19:46): ESPN investigated the referee for two years and found evidence that he fixed games. What should we make of his (and the NBA’s) continued denials? Breaking (40:51): If it becomes an Olympic sport, what will it look like and who will profit from it?
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:12.6 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, hang up and listen for the week of February 25th, 2019. |
| 0:19.3 | On this week's show, Damon Young will join us to talk about Zion Williamson's |
| 0:22.5 | shoe explosion and knee injury and whether he should play another game for Duke before |
| 0:27.1 | going to the pros. |
| 0:29.0 | Scott Eden will also be here to discuss his story for ESPN on evidence that referee Tim Donaghy |
| 0:34.3 | fixed NBA games. |
| 0:36.3 | Finally, Devorah Myers of Deadspin will chat with us about |
| 0:39.1 | efforts to make breakdancing an Olympic sport. Here with me in our Washington, D.C. studio, after a two-week |
| 0:46.0 | absence, is the legendary Mr. Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak. And a few seconds |
| 0:51.8 | of panic, you were out beating the bushes for breaking |
| 0:55.4 | to make it an Olympic sport. Oh, it's my next book, Josh. Yeah. Well, first person. I was training. |
| 1:02.4 | Word. Word. Word. Word. Word. Word. That's good. Thank you. It's not that good. Anything |
| 1:09.5 | happened in the last two weeks that we should know about? |
| 1:12.6 | More sense. |
| 1:13.7 | In my life? |
| 1:14.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:15.1 | Well, my afterball, you'll learn some of the things that I did in my afterball. |
| 1:18.9 | Afterballs happen. |
| 1:20.0 | Yes. |
| 1:20.4 | To us when we least expect them. |
| 1:22.2 | Okay. |
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