Hang Up and Listen - The Humble Swagger Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2018
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by the New York Times’ Marc Tracy to discuss UMBC. Deadspin’s Dom Cosentino comes on to talk about Kirk Cousins’ new contract. Plus: Dave Kindred on covering girls’ high school basketball.
NCAA (1:27): Stefan, Josh, and Marc Tracy of the New York Times recap the first weekend of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, including 16-seed UMBC’s historic win over 1-seed Virginia.
Kirk Cousins (23:30): Stefan and Josh are joined by Dom Cosentino of Deadspin to discuss whether NFL players and agents will be emboldened by free-agent quarterback Kirk Cousins’ groundbreaking guaranteed contract with the Minnesota Vikings.
Dave Kindred (40:06): After retiring home to Illinois seven years ago, Dave Kindred began covering the local girls’ basketball team for fun. Then his wife suffered a massive stroke. Dave talks about the experience with Stefan and Josh.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:14.7 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of March 19th, 2018. |
| 0:21.7 | On this week's show, The New York Times is Mark Tracy, will join us to talk about UMBC's historic win over Virginia and other NCAA tournament happenings. |
| 0:31.8 | Dom Cossentino of Deadspin will also be here to discuss whether Kirk Cousins' fully guaranteed contract with the |
| 0:38.5 | Minnesota Vikings will start a new trend in the NFL. And finally, we'll chat with sports |
| 0:44.0 | writing legend Dave Kindred about how a high school girls basketball team in central Illinois |
| 0:49.5 | saved his life. Joining me in Washington, D.C. is Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak and a few |
| 0:56.2 | seconds of panic. |
| 0:57.4 | Hello, Stefan. |
| 0:58.2 | Hey, Josh. |
| 1:00.0 | I think we should get right in. |
| 1:01.6 | Oh, I should say, hey, that was rude of me. |
| 1:03.5 | I'm sorry. |
| 1:04.0 | It's nice to hear from you, Stefan. |
| 1:06.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:06.1 | I think we should get right into the college basketball because I think the small talk I would want to have with you is NCAA tournament related. |
| 1:18.0 | And I would hijack it and talk about how Penn really had a shot there against Kansas for a while. |
| 1:23.9 | Yeah, maybe we should. Maybe we should just get right into it. |
| 1:26.5 | Here we go. |
| 1:27.9 | On January 21st, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, lost to its conference rival, |
| 1:34.3 | Albany, 83 to 39. It actually could have been worse than that. The retrievers were losing that game, |
| 1:41.3 | 49 to 12, with less than 17 minutes to go. A little less than two months |
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