Hang Up and Listen - The Fixing the Fixers Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2016
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin discuss how Denver and Carolina made it to Super Bowl 50. ESPN's Dave McMenamin joins to discuss the firing of Cavaliers coach David Blatt, and Sports Illustrated's Jon Wertheim explains pro tennis' match-fixing scandal.
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| 0:00.0 | Hang Up and Listen is brought to you by Credit Karma. |
| 0:02.5 | Do not pay for your credit score. |
| 0:04.9 | With Credit Karma, you can get your credit report right now absolutely free. |
| 0:08.8 | Just visit Credit Karma.com slash save to get started. |
| 0:12.0 | There are no strings attached and no credit card is required. |
| 0:15.4 | At credit karma.com slash save. |
| 0:19.4 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:27.6 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's Sports Podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the |
| 0:31.2 | week of January 25th, 2016. |
| 0:33.9 | On today's show, we'll talk about the Broncos tight win over the Patriots, the Panthers blowout over the Cardinals, and what kind of game we can expect in Super Bowl 50. |
| 0:42.6 | Dave McMinneman, the Cleveland Cavaliers beat reporter for ESPN, will be with us to assess the team's decision to fire head coach David Blatt. |
| 0:50.5 | And finally, we'll be joined by Sports Illustrated's John Wertheim to discuss allegations of rampant match fixing and tennis. |
| 0:58.4 | Mike Peska is out this week, but joining me in Washington, D.C. is Stefan Fatsas, author of the book's Word Freak, and a few seconds of panic. Hello, Stefan. |
| 1:06.8 | Hello, Josh. So we both walked backwards through snowdrifts, kind of growing up in the American |
| 1:13.1 | South. |
| 1:14.0 | It's really rare for me to have the opportunity to say that, so I'm going to take advantage. |
| 1:18.7 | We have, like, kind of a screwed up show today. |
| 1:21.4 | Stefan lives in a less metro-adjacent area than I do. |
| 1:27.2 | It's in the city. It's in the city. |
| 1:45.5 | It's in the city. Don't make me out to be some more. No, I'm just saying, I'm just saying you had more trudging to do. I did have more trudging to do. I want to give you more trudging credit. So, Stefan will not be with us for one of the segments, the tennis one. I was trudging in the tennis segment. If you can just imagine a deep trudge in the background, as I'm talking to John Wortham, then it'll enhance your |
| 1:51.4 | listening experience. But he's here now. We're both together. And on our bonus segment for |
| 1:55.8 | Slate Plus members, we'll be joined by our colleague and sports fashionista John Swansberg to assess the trend of |
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