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 August 24th, 2015.

On this week's show, we'll talk about Usain Bolt versus Justin Gatlin in the 100 meters of the track and field world championships,

and whether it was a battle of good

versus evil in the sport of dudes running very fast over short distances. We'll also discuss the

fallout from the sexual assault conviction of Baylor football player Sam O'atchew, and if coach

Art Bryles should lose his job. We'll also look at the place of religion in sports with Houston Texans running back,

Arian Foster, declaring his atheism.

You've got to declare your atheism when you're on the line of scrimmage.

Early.

Right.

So the other team has a chance to match up.

Joining me in Washington, D.C., Stefan Fatsas, author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds

of panic.

Hello, Stefan.

Hi, Josh.

With us from New York, it's the host of Slate's Daily podcast, The Gist, with Mike Pesca.

And Mike Peska, we were just discussing prior to hitting the record button, athletics versus track and field and other parts

of the world, they would call it the athletics world championships. What do you feel about that?

I think that athletics are like, it's odd because it's backwards where the Americans use a

two-word phrase, sort of like knots and crosses, which is what we call the

Tic-Tac-Tow. So, okay, let's, I'll go in order. I prefer Tick-Tac-Tot to Cots, knots and Crosse. I keep

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