Hang Up and Listen - The Kim Mulkey Profile Is Here
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🗓️ 1 April 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Joel Anderson and Stefan Fatsis are joined by USA Today’s Lindsay Schnell to talk about the NCAA women’s college basketball tournament and by Buzzer’s Eamonn Brennan to discuss the men’s tournament. Finally, the Washington Post’s Kent Babb joins for a conversation about his profile of Kim Mulkey.
NCAA women (5:55): Can anyone beat South Carolina?
NCAA men (23:02): Why everyone loves North Carolina State’s DJ Burns Jr.
Mulkey profile (38:31): Kent Babb on his reporting process and everything that came after.
Afterball (1:00:33): Stefan on chess pioneer Lisa Lane.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast includes explicit language, including, well, you'll just have to wait and see. Hi, I'm Stephen Fatsus, and this is Slate's Sports Podcast, hang up and listen for the week of April 1st, |
| 0:27.0 | 2024. On this week's show, we'll talk about NCAA basketball. As we record this on Monday morning, South Carolina and North Carolina state have qualified |
| 0:37.0 | for the women's final four. |
| 0:38.9 | Lindsey Schnell of USA Today will be here to discuss that tournament. |
| 0:43.2 | On the men's side, Connecticut, Alabama, Purdue, |
| 0:46.1 | and North Carolina State are in Aemon Brennan, |
| 0:49.2 | who writes the College Hoopes newsletter, |
| 0:51.3 | Buzzer will join us. Finally, we'll talk to Kent Bab of the |
| 0:55.1 | Washington Post about his profile of LSU women's basketball coach Kim Mulkey, |
| 1:00.2 | which in case you hadn't heard was published over the weekend. |
| 1:04.0 | I'm in Washington, D.C. and I'm the author of the book's Word Freak |
| 1:08.0 | A Few Seconds of Panic and Wild and Outside, |
| 1:11.0 | and it's my birthday. No joke, yay. Josh Levine is off this week. He'll be |
| 1:15.2 | hosting a new slow burn for slate about the rise of Fox News. Can't wait for that. |
| 1:20.4 | Joel Anderson is not off. He writes the Emotional Investment Column for that |
| 1:25.0 | Joel Anderson is not off. He writes the emotional investment column for Slate |
| 1:26.0 | and is the host of three seasons of Slow Burn, |
| 1:29.0 | the most recent of which, becoming Justice Thomas, |
| 1:32.0 | last week won the podcast equivalent Recent of which, Becoming Justice Thomas, |
| 1:32.6 | last week won the podcast equivalent of Best Picture Oscar, |
| 1:37.2 | the Amby's Award for Podcast of the Year, |
| 1:40.4 | loved seeing Joel on stage, accepting the trophy from RuPaul's drag race all-stars winner Trixie Mattel. |
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