Hang Up and Listen - The Great, Greater, Greatest Edition

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2016

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca evaluate LeBron James’ playoff record, talk to The Ringer’s Bryan Curtis about how Muhammad Ali changed sports writing, and discuss Novak Djokovic’s growing popularity with the New York Times’ Ben Rothenberg.

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0:24.5	Music The following podcast contains explicit language. Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of June 6th, 2016.
0:30.9	On today's show, we're going to talk about Golden State's dominating start to the NBA finals in Cleveland's no- show in games one and two. Brian Curtis of
0:39.0	the Ringer will join us to discuss sports writer's relationship to Muhammad Ali and the great
0:43.7	sports writing he inspired. And the New York Times as Ben Rothenberg will be with us to assess
0:48.7	French Open champion Novak Djokovic and whether tennis fans are warming to the best player in the game.
0:54.9	Joining me in Washington, D.C. is Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic. Hey, Stefan. Hey, Josh. And with us from New York is Mike Fesca, the host of Slate's Daily podcast, The Gist. What's up, Mike? I could outdoor, Stefan. hi Josh
1:10.6	the eorish
1:12.7	Mike and Stefan
1:13.8	you know it's a bad sign
1:14.9	when up, Mike. I could outdoor Stefan. Hi, Josh. The Eeyore-ish, Mike and Stefan. You know, it's a bad sign when I have to bring the energy. Yeah, tigger it up. On the podcast. You know, guys, we did a special podcast over the weekend. Everyone should listen to it. It was really fun. Bob Lipsite was there. He wrote The Times Obituary of Ali. He covered him for 52 years.
1:27.8	It was a really good conversation.
1:30.1	And you all should listen to it.
1:31.4	You can find it on the hang up and listen feed in iTunes and wherever else find podcasts are located.
1:37.3	Yeah, we did.
1:39.1	Yeah.
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