Hi, this is Josh Levine and this is Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of June 8th, 2015 on this week's show.

We'll talk about the first two games of the NBA finals, both of which went to overtime with regulation ending with LeBron James missing a game-winning shot, one of which featured

the Cavaliers Kyrie Irving breaking his kneecap, and which finished up on Sunday night

with Cleveland and Golden State tied one game apiece. We'll then be joined by Sports Illustrated's

Tim Layden to talk about American Pharaoh, winning the Belmont Stakes to become the first

horse since 1978 to take the triple crown.

And we'll finish up by talking about the start of the FIFA Women's World Cup, which will hopefully be an excellent event despite featuring the word FIFA.

Joining me in Washington, D.C. is Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic.

And the man responsible for the entire $607 American box office take of the FIFA propaganda film United Passions, starring Tim Roth as Set Blatter.

I took my girl soccer team to see it and we stayed for three viewings.

$600.

We paid every time, though, we're honest.

The seven was from tipping the usher for allowing you to just stay through every

viewing.

With us from New York and filling in for Mike Peska is Mary Pallon.

Mary is the author of the book The Monopolisists about the history of the board game monopoly,

which means I better have written a book about settlers of Catan, or I do not belong on this podcast.

She's also just published a great piece on Grantland on the 40th anniversary of the death of Steve Prefontein, the runner,

which everyone should check out. Mary, it's fantastic to have you back on, hang up and listen.

Thanks for having me. Yeah. And you may have noticed, Mary, that we're not going to talk about

many, many things on today's show. Among them, the French Open, Champions League, final,

hockey, college baseball, super regional. Softball. Softball. Come on, the college women softball. It's got to be like the second or third best tournament in college women's softball. I mean, you have to make some cuts. There's just been so much going on. Am I crazy? I just feel like every now and then there's just like a week or two where there's just, I mean, scandals alone in the last week or two. It's been exhausting. We're not going to talk about FIFA. We're going to find a way to talk about FIFA. But Josh is teasing us because. Yeah, our bonus segment, we are, in fact, going to cram everything in. We're not going to leave anything out. We're going to talk about every sporting event that happened this weekend because we want our listeners to be satisfied. Our Slate Plus members, we'll talk about all these things and how to handle the weekend with an overwhelming volume of sporty goodness to hear the bonus segment this week and others like it on Hangup and Listen and various other Slate shows. Sign up for Slate Plus at Slate.com slash hangup plus.

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