Hang Up and Listen - The End of the New York Times Sports Department
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Josh Levin and Stefan Fatsis are joined by the Washington Post’s Ben Golliver to discuss Victor Wembanyama’s NBA Summer League debut. The Athletic’s C. Trent Rosecrans also joins to talk about baseball stars Elly de la Cruz, Ronald Acuña Jr., and Shohei Ohtani. Finally, legendary New York Times sports columnist Robert Lipsyte comes on to talk about the demise of the Times sports department.
Wembanyama (5:45): What happened with Britney Spears? And what about his iffy debut?
MLB (29:46): A look at the game’s most exciting players.
New York Times (51:06): A Times legend on what comes next for the paper’s sports section.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the overnight flight from London Heathrow to Beijing. |
| 0:05.0 | Flight time 11 hours, 237 passengers on board, |
| 0:11.0 | and one murderer. |
| 0:15.0 | There's no escape. |
| 0:17.0 | At 35,000 feet, red eye. Stream now on ITX. |
| 0:30.0 | Hi, this is Dahlia Lithwick, host of Slate's legal podcast Amagus. If you're listening to this show, you might be interested in Amicus's live show that we're hosting in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, May the 14th. |
| 0:45.0 | My colleague, Mark Joseph Stern, and I will be talking to some amazing guests, |
| 0:50.0 | including Cheryline Eiffel, and a sitting state Supreme Court justice. |
| 0:54.5 | All about how originalism, a relatively recently invented way of interpreting the Constitution, |
| 1:00.9 | has taken over the Supreme Court and radically reshaped the law. |
| 1:05.4 | It's been doctrinal rocket fuel for the conservative legal movement and facilitated the rolling |
| 1:10.7 | back of abortion rights, the expansion of gun rights, and the |
| 1:14.0 | obliteration of the separation of church and state. And as another wildly |
| 1:19.4 | consequential Supreme Court term, careers to its end, the Court's originalists are on a tear. |
| 1:26.6 | But there's something you can do about it and we hope you'll join us in DC on May 14th |
| 1:31.8 | to explore the possible pathways out of the current situation. |
| 1:36.3 | Go to slate.com slash Amicus Live for tickets. The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 1:45.6 | Hide Your Children. Hi, I'm Josh Levine, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of July 10th, |
| 2:05.9 | 2023. |
| 2:07.8 | On this week's show, the Washington Post Ben Goliver will help us understand Victor Wimbanama's |
| 2:12.8 | NBA Summer League debut, which included an iffy opening game |
| 2:17.1 | and a bizarre altercation involving Brittany Spears. |
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