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Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate Sports Podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of March 2, 2015.

On this week's, ESPN.com's Kevin Pelton will join us to talk about the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference and the state of stats in pro sports. We'll also discuss Larry Sanders'

struggle with depression and anxiety, his decision to leave the NBA and walk away from tens of millions

of dollars. Ben Rothenberg will be here to tell us about the scourge of match fixing in tennis.

And in our bonus segment for Slate Plus members, we'll talk about the lives and legacies of basketball players, Anthony Mason, Jerome Cursey and Earl Lloyd, the latter of whom was the NBA's first black player. Joining me in Washington, D.C., is Stefan Fatsas, author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds of panic. Hello, Stefan. Hello, Josh. With us from New York is Mike Peska, the host of Slate's Daily

Podcast, The Gist, with Mike Peska. Hello, Mike. I'd like to propose a word, Josh, the latticed. When you list three, it is latter, right? It should be latter, the last of the list. But I always think of ladder as opposed to the former, one of two. So in a list, maybe it should be the latticed. I'm going to make a note of that. Thank you. I know that Stefan has inroads

to the latticed. I'm going to make a note of that. Thank you.

I know that Stefan has inroads to the dictionary people. I do. Yeah. I do. I actually just can make notes of things. You have to start using latticed a lot, Mike. You've got to just start using it for years and years. And then you'll get in. Right. Get it in the dictionary. Or, alternately, have Taylor Swift use it once.

That'll work, too. We are now part of a brand new podcast network called The Laddist, actually. It's a rebrand. We just rebranded it. They're going to be pissed at me because it's only about a few days, so people might actually think that that's true. Yes. It's called panoply. It's not called the latticed, everyone. It's called panoply, panoply, panoply. I always wanted to be a part of a network. I wanted to be a part of Vile from Carmen San Diego, the Villains International League of Evil, but Panoply will do just fine if I can't be a part of Viile. You are a panoply panelist. I am. It's a complete or impressive collection of

things. That's what the word means. A splendid display. Or also third definition, Stefan, complete

set of arms or suit of armor. I'd like to think of us as a full set of armor.

Well, I thought of Hang Up and Listen as more like the gorget, the part of the armor that covers the throat.

But if you only have your throat covered, that means that all of your limbs can be chopped off.

And so that's why we have the full suit of armor.

You've got to have the political gab fest to cover your left arm.

You got the culture fest.

We've got the ethicists from the New York Times Magazine.

They'll cover your ethics.

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