Hang Up and Listen - The Huge NBA Gambling Scandal
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🗓️ 22 April 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin are joined by writer Tom Haberstroh to discuss Jontay Porter’s lifetime ban from the NBA for gambling. The Ringer’s Ben Lindbergh also joins to talk about the scourge of pitcher injuries in Major League Baseball and what MLB should do to get the crisis under control.
Jontay Porter (2:51): What his ban augurs for the future of pro sports and betting.
Pitcher injuries (26:17): What is MLB doing about them? Is it too late?
Afterball (47:02): Stefan on why the Ivy League’s best basketball players are transferring.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:02.8 | If you want to know how explicit, keep listening. Hi, I'm Josh Levine, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of April 22nd, 2024. |
| 0:25.4 | On this week show writer Tom Habertra will join us to discuss Jante Porter's lifetime |
| 0:29.5 | band from the NBA for gambling and what it augurs for the future of pro sports and |
| 0:34.1 | abetting. Then we'll be joined by the ringers Ben Lindbergh to talk about the |
| 0:37.9 | scourge of pitcher injuries in Major League Baseball and what MLB should do to get the crisis under control. |
| 0:44.7 | I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm the author of the book The Queen and the host of an upcoming |
| 0:48.4 | slow burn season on the rise of Fox News and so on and so forth. That's on the official subhead. |
| 0:53.7 | Also in DC, Stephen Fatsus, he's the author of the book's Word Freak, |
| 0:57.7 | a few seconds of panic and Wild and Outside. |
| 1:00.4 | He's about to head off to Greece for a while, so be prepared for him to be even more into Greek stuff when he gets back next month. |
| 1:06.3 | Hello, Stephan. |
| 1:07.3 | I try to go to a game. |
| 1:08.9 | A game of any game. |
| 1:11.6 | I don't know. |
| 1:13.0 | Maybe a soccer game? |
| 1:15.0 | A game. |
| 1:16.0 | Maybe a team handball game? |
| 1:18.0 | A sports game? See if the Greek League is thriving. |
| 1:20.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:21.0 | Enjoy your sports game. |
| 1:22.0 | Thank you. Is that why you going? |
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