Hang Up and Listen - The Love Me Some Me Edition
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🗓️ 6 August 2018
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Josh Levin is joined by Deadspin’s Laura Wagner and the New Yorker’s Vinson Cunningham to talk about Urban Meyer’s possible ouster at Ohio State, Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees Terrell Owens and Ray Lewis, and the NFL’s new helmet rule.
Urban Meyer (1:40): Ohio State has placed its head coach on administrative leave. Does that signal a societal shift in how institutions handle domestic violence?
Pro Football Hall of Fame (23:36): Terrell Owens’ solo ceremony was a strange spectacle. So was Ray Lewis’ long speech in Canton, Ohio. What should we make of both players’ performances on stage and in their careers?
Helmet rule (40:10): Will the NFL’s new ban on leading with the head change the game or will the league forget about enforcing it once the regular season begins?
Afterballs (49:39): Laura stumps for the demise of five-set tennis matches, Vinson revels in watching NBA players destroy small children, and Josh describes the joys of the 2016 Classic Tetris World Championship.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:09.4 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of August 6th, 2018. |
| 0:17.2 | On this week's show, we'll talk about Urban Myers possible ouster as the head football coach at Ohio State due to his failure to act on reports that one of his assistants was a domestic abuser. |
| 0:28.5 | We'll also discuss the Pro Football Hall of Fame, how Terrell Owens and Ray Lewis presented themselves and what we should make of their lives and careers. |
| 0:37.9 | And we'll look at the NFL's new helmet rule and whether it will change the game. |
| 0:43.9 | Stefan Fatsis is out this week, playing in the North American Scrabble Championship, as one does. |
| 0:50.3 | Sitting in this week and joining from our Brooklyn studio is Laura Wagner, former hang-up intern extraordinaire, now a writer at Deadspin, sitting out the Scrabble Championship for just years consecutively. |
| 1:05.1 | Yeah, just so Stefan can win, you know. |
| 1:08.1 | It's very generous of you next year, 2019. It's going to be all Wagner at the |
| 1:12.8 | Scrabble Championship. Wither and Brooklyn is Vincent Cunningham, who writes for the New Yorker, |
| 1:19.4 | also sitting out the Scrabble Championship and allowing Stefan to take top honors. |
| 1:24.9 | Great sadness for me, but I'm happy for Stefan. |
| 1:29.8 | Are you a Scrabble player? |
| 1:31.1 | I am not. |
| 1:33.0 | I've only ever lost at Scrabble. |
| 1:37.2 | I don't think I've ever, I can't remember a moment of victory in that game. |
| 1:38.7 | We've got to get you to Buffalo then. |
| 1:42.4 | We need to give Fats of some Ws. |
| 1:43.6 | All right. |
| 1:46.4 | Let us start with Urban Meyer. |
| 1:55.2 | On July 23rd, Brett McMurphy reported that Courtney Smith had recently filed a domestic violence protection order against her husband, Ohio Statewide receivers coach, Zach Smith. |
| 2:00.8 | Zach Smith was fired by Ohio State that same day. |
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