The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, hang up and listen for the week of August 13th, 2018.

On this week's show, our colleague Jim Newell will join us to talk about Tiger Woods's near miss at the PGA championship and Brooks Kepka's latest major championship win.

SB Nation's Spencer Hall will also be here to discuss allegations of a toxic culture in the Maryland football program and the particular awfulness of college football fanbases.

Finally, Sam Miller of ESPN will help us examine a baseball conundrum.

The shift, which was supposed to be killing offenses, might actually be helping them.

Joining me in Washington, D.C., fresh off his first ever appearance in Division I at the North American Scrabble Championship.

It is Stefan Fatsis, author of the book Word Freak and the Non-Scrabble Books as well.

Hello, Stefan.

Hey, Josh.

Are we going to do Scrabble and After Balls? Yeah, I'm going to do my afterball about Scrabble, about the tournament. When are we going to talk about Stephanos Sipsipas? We've got to have him on the show. He did not play Scrabble. He's a tennis player, for those of you don't know. Did you see a little tidbit? I forgot to tell you in my little behind the scenes for people, I like to text Stefan whenever the Greek tennis players do well.

So in my texting of you, I didn't mention that Sitsipas and Maria Sakari, the Greek woman who's doing well on the tour now, like their parents actually played together and were friends growing up. It's like a beautiful Greek family. I got to figure that the... My big fat Greek tennis wedding. The high-level Greek tennis playing community is probably pretty small. Situ Paz is really good, though. Yeah. Good-looking guy. Played in a doll in the final in Toronto.

That too. Routing for him. Let's go... Sittipas. Let's go Scepanos. Stefanos. That's my name. Stefanos. Not showsh. Stefanos. Stephanos. Go, Greek guy. All right. Let's do golf. During CBS's broadcast of the final round of the PGA Championship on Sunday,

some rules-type person came on the TV to try to explain some rule, some like golf thing. But as you'll hear, our dweeby rules official got drowned out by some super cool fans ringing the 12th green.

Well, just like we had yesterday on the 16th hole, this shot now, Gary Woodland has

distorted the roundness of the hole, and they'll use their equipment to restore the round

edge to the hole.

That's what they're working on right now.

And the crowd is working on the tiger chant.

Blah, blah, blah, blah.

The roundness of the hole.

We've got a chant, let's go tiger, people.

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