Hang Up and Listen - The "Here Comes Diggins!” Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis welcomes Slate’s Justin Peters and NBC Nordic skiing commentator Chad Salmela to recap the Winter Olympics. And journalist Ben Strauss and sports economist Andy Schwarz examine the government probe of NCAA basketball recruitment.
Winter Olympics (1:42): Stefan and Justin Peters recap the final week of the Winter Olympics including the United States men’s curling team gold medal, Canada’s Olympic heartbreak, Mirai Nagasu’s post-skate comments, and more.
Chad Salmela (22:23): Stefan and Justin interview NBC commentator Chad Salmela, who called the dramatic finish of the first-ever American gold medal in cross-country skiing.
NCAA Basketball (37:12): Ben Strauss and Andy Schwarz join Stefan to explain the latest developments in the FBI’s investigation into men’s college basketball.
Afterballs (57:30)
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:14.3 | Hi, I'm Stefan Fatsis, and this is Slate's sports podcast. |
| 0:17.7 | Hang up and listen for the week of February 26, 2018. |
| 0:22.0 | On this week's show, Slate Olympics beat reporter Justin Peters completes the rare guest |
| 0:28.0 | three-peat as we wrap up the games, Miracurl on ice, Wunderalf Ice, plucky Norwegians, |
| 0:35.3 | will cover at least some of it. |
| 0:37.4 | Justin and I also will talk with NBC commentator, Chad Solmella, about his outstanding |
| 0:42.9 | call of the finish of the United States' first ever cross-country gold medal. |
| 0:48.2 | Finally, I'll be joined by writer Ben Strauss, an economist Andy Schwartz, to break down the latest |
| 0:53.8 | in the FBI's investigation |
| 0:55.2 | into scary, scary college basketball, including allegations of payouts as high as $100,000 |
| 1:02.7 | to secure players at schools, including North Carolina, Michigan State, Kentucky, Arizona, |
| 1:08.4 | and say it ain't so Duke. |
| 1:17.2 | Josh Levine, the editorial director of Slate Magazine, the Jesse Diggins to my Keekin Randall, |
| 1:20.5 | the Jocelyn Lamaroo, to my Monique Lamaroo. |
| 1:21.7 | He's off this week. |
| 1:23.2 | But Justin Peters is here. |
| 1:28.1 | He is the author of The Idealist, Aaron Schwartz, and The Rise of Free Culture on the Internet, |
| 1:36.1 | and more important, the author of Post after Post of Olympian Greatness on the Games of Pei Ong Chang, |
| 1:39.5 | as Kenny Albert called them, to my endless amusement and annoyance. |
| 1:40.9 | Welcome back, my friend. |
| 1:42.4 | You know what? |
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