Hang Up and Listen - The Melosanity Edition
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🗓️ 5 August 2019
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin talk about Alejandro Bedoya speaking out against gun violence during an MLS game. The New York Daily News’ Kyle Wagner joins to discuss Jeremy Lin and Carmelo Anthony, and the Omaha World-Herald’s Henry Cordes explains how school’s evade the requirements of Title IX. Bedoya (01:22): On the soccer player’s in-game call-out and how the sports media will cover it. Lin and Anthony (14:15): The former Knicks teammates are both feeling rejected by the NBA. Title IX (38:20): Women’s rowing rosters are growing to an absurd degree, and not because schools love rowing. Afterballs (57:10): Stefan on sports and military-style drills and Josh on Nick Kyrgios.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.0 | Hello, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor and the author of The Queen. |
| 0:12.8 | This is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of August 5th, 2019. |
| 0:17.9 | On this week's show, we'll discuss soccer player Alejandro Bedoya's unusual goal celebration |
| 0:22.6 | on Sunday, getting on mic and calling on Congress to address gun violence. We'll also be |
| 0:28.3 | joined by Kyle Wagner of the New York Daily News to talk about the sadness of Jeremy Lynn and |
| 0:33.0 | Carmelo Anthony, the one-time New York Knicks teammates who've now both been rejected by the NBA. |
| 0:39.4 | Finally, Omaha World Herald reporter Henry Cordes will be here to explain why big-time, big money, |
| 0:45.8 | college athletic departments are investing in women's rowing. I will tell you that it is not because |
| 0:51.1 | they love women's rowing. Joining me in Slate's Washington, D.C. studio is the author of the book's Word Freak |
| 0:57.8 | in a few seconds of panic. |
| 0:59.0 | The one and only. |
| 1:00.0 | Stefan Fancis, hello, Stefan. |
| 1:01.3 | Hi, Josh. |
| 1:02.1 | You spell Bureau B.U.R. |
| 1:04.4 | If I was going to say Slate's Washington, D.C. Bureau. |
| 1:06.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:07.3 | Is that like a Wall Street Journal AP thing? |
| 1:09.7 | Journalese. |
| 1:10.7 | Yeah. Is that like a Wall Street Journal AP thing? Journalies. Yeah. |
| 1:11.1 | A little inside. |
| 1:13.3 | You're an old crusty newspaper guy. |
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