Hang Up and Listen - The Foot Locker Gift Card Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by SB Nation’s Spencer Hall to discuss Texas A&M’s seven-overtime win over LSU. Joshua Robinson of the Wall Street Journal also joins to talk about the chaos in Argentina surrounding a soccer match between Boca Juniors and River Plate. And Jim Newell assesses The Match between Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods.
College overtime (1:23): Football players are not built to run around for seven extra periods. Also, 146 points is a lot of points.
Copa Libertadores (18:29): What is it about soccer in Argentina that makes violence such an enduring part of the sport, and is there anything anyone can do to fix it?
Tiger vs. Phil (33:57): “The Match” was a debacle. What will sports leagues and sports executives learn from it?
Afterballs (50:11): Stefan on Olivier Giroud’s meaty French forehead and Josh on the Battle of the Bones trophy.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.7 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of November 26th, 2018. |
| 0:19.1 | On this week's show, SB Nation's Spencer Hall will join us to discuss Texas A&M's |
| 0:23.9 | seven overtime victory over LSU and other less insane college football happenings. |
| 0:30.9 | Joshua Robinson of The Wall Street Journal will also be here to talk about the biggest |
| 0:35.0 | soccer match in the history of Argentina between Boka |
| 0:39.0 | Juniors and River Plate, which got canceled after an attack on the Boka Team Bus. |
| 0:45.1 | And Slate's Jim Newell will let us know if he got suckered into paying 1995 to watch Tiger |
| 0:49.8 | Woods and Phil Mickelson play something resembling golf for a winner take-all purse of $9 million. |
| 0:57.4 | Joining me in our Washington, D.C. studio, Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak, |
| 1:03.3 | and a few seconds of panic. |
| 1:05.7 | Stefan, I can get you to show up anywhere for $9 million. |
| 1:09.0 | Oh, for 1995. |
| 1:10.7 | You could get me to show up. for $9 million. Oh, for 1995. You could get me to show up. |
| 1:13.6 | $19.95 million. |
| 1:15.3 | Correct. |
| 1:15.6 | It's a deal. |
| 1:17.0 | Agreed. |
| 1:18.6 | Shall we discuss college football? |
| 1:21.8 | Do you ready? |
| 1:23.5 | The first two seven overtime games in major college football history were both won by Arkansas |
| 1:30.2 | in the early 2000s. Arkansas was then led by a quarterback Matt Jones, who years later was found |
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