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Hi, I'm Stefan Fatsis, and this is Slate's sports podcast. Hang up and listen for the week of October 3rd, 2016.

It's another guest fest on this week's show. First, we'll USA, USA, Europe, you suck. We'll talk about

the Americans reclaiming Golf's Rider Cup with Golf Digest contributor Shane Ryan, who was in

Minnesota for the Jets and Sharks Rumble in Slacks. Then it's on to baseball, the end of the regular

season, the start of the playoffs, David Ortiz's smorgasb of farewell gifts. Emma Spann, the baseball editor at Sports Illustrated, will join us for that

conversation.

Finally, we'll discuss a crazy weekend in college football with Chuck Culpepper of the

Washington Post, who performed a crazy act of journalistic daring do in order to cover it.

Slate executive editor Josh Levine is off again this week. I'm in Washington.

Joining me from Slate headquarters in Brooklyn is Mike Peska, the host of Slate's daily podcast,

The Gist. Hey, Mike.

Hi, Chuck Colpepper. That's a good football name, good military name too. I I'm Chuck Colpepper, and I approve this message. It's an appropriate pairing of writer and subject. Yeah. And if he was Charles Colpepper the third? Charles Colpeper is the third Duke of Wainsport or something like that. Yeah, where he's covering like the IRS. Let's do some whimsy watch, Mike. Yeah. We look at whimsical moments in the non-whimsical NFL. We'll look at that which is whimsical. Mm-hmm. Yes. Yes. What do you got? I got let's talk about both coaches in the Bill's Patriot game. Rex Ryan, sources inside Gillette said Jacoby Brissette would be playing. He said he had sources, then he backed off,

then he said maybe it did. Noted Trump endorser Rex Ryan. Remember, Trump tweeted, if you hear

something from a source, it's not true. There are no sources. But Ryan attempting to get under the

skin, Bill Belichick. So on the other side of the field,

there was Bill Belichick taking out his frustrations on the Microsoft Surface. This is the iPad

thing. That is actually not an iPad. Maybe it was an iPad. It would work. But his surface was

not working, or at least the Patriots offense, was not working, just smash the hell out of his Microsoft

surface.

He was not doing well.

In fact, it was the first time the Patriots were shut out at home since, I don't know,

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