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Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate Sports Podcast, hang up and listen for the week of

January 26, 2015. On this week's show, we'll talk about the latest developments vis-a-vis

that time the Patriots maybe didn't inflate their balls enough.

Did they inflate their balls enough?

Did they not inflate their balls enough?

These are the questions we will probably not answer on today's episode of did the Patriots inflate their balls enough.

Also, we're going to interview one of four men to take photographs at every Super Bowl,

one of the subjects of the new ESPN documentary Keepers of the Streak.

We'll speak with American tennis player Tim Smecach, who nearly beat Rafael Nadal at the Australian Open and has been celebrated for a show of sportsmanship in the deciding game of that match.

In our bonus segment for Slate Plus members,

we will scrutinize Clay Thompson's record setting, 37 point quarter,

and look at where it ranks among accomplishments by the human race.

Joining me in Washington, D.C., Stefan Fatsas, author of The Book's Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic.

Friday sports correspondent friend Pierre is all things considered.

Afterball last week ranks 1,723,412 in accomplishments of the human race.

That's pretty high.

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