Hang Up and Listen - The March Equals Madness Edition
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🗓️ 25 March 2019
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin discuss Duke’s crazy NCAA Tournament win over UCF. They also talk about Michigan State coach Tom Izzo’s sideline behavior, and Ian Eagle joins the show to explain how play-by-play announcers call buzzer-beaters.
Duke-UCF (1:14): How the Blue Devils pulled it out, and how Zion vs. Tacko lived up to its advance billing.
Tom Izzo (14:20): Assessing the national conversation about Izzo’s anger issues and how coaches should treat players.
Buzzer-beaters (34:48): CBS’ Ian Eagle describes how he calls game-winning plays and explains the elements of a memorable call.
Afterballs(57:32): Stefan on the origins of the term “punch drunk” and Josh on Canadian superjocks and immigration.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.4 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of March 25th, 2019. |
| 0:17.2 | On this week's show, we'll talk about Duke's victory over UCF in the greatest battle of our age, Zion versus Taco. |
| 0:25.3 | We'll then discuss the kerfuffle over Michigan State coach Tom Izzo yelling at his players. |
| 0:32.6 | And finally, announcer Ian Eagle will join us to explain how to call a March Madness game winner. |
| 0:40.4 | Here with me in our Washington, D.C. studio is my co-host Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's |
| 0:46.0 | Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic. Hello, Stefan. Hello, Josh. What does that mean? |
| 0:52.7 | Nothing. That means hello, Josh. |
| 0:55.0 | Hello, Stefan. |
| 0:58.7 | This is our thing is going to be a thing, isn't it, for you? |
| 1:02.9 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:03.9 | I can predict that the is our thing is going to be a conversation. |
| 1:08.2 | All right. |
| 1:08.7 | I'm going to wind Stefan up and let him go in mere moments. |
| 1:15.5 | 16 teams remain in the NCAA men's basketball tournament. |
| 1:20.2 | Cinderella not doing much dancing. |
| 1:22.7 | All of the one, two, and three seeds are alive, plus two, four seeds, a five, and just one lone |
| 1:29.6 | double-digit, 12-seeded Oregon. One of the ones, though, came this close to losing on |
| 1:35.4 | Sunday. That, of course, was Duke, which survived only after a putback by Central Florida's |
| 1:40.8 | Aubrey Dawkins rolled around the rim, and then off of the rim as time expired. |
| 1:46.4 | And the Blue Devils hung on for a crazy 77 to 76 victory. |
| 1:51.3 | Josh, that game had it all. |
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