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Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by Spencer Hall to talk about Alabama’s loss to Auburn and Tennessee’s Greg Schiano fiasco; by Vann Newkirk to discuss Alabama’s 3-on-5 basketball near-miracle; and by Bruce Arthur to assess the Grey Cup.

College football (1:53): Spencer Hall of SB Nation discusses Auburn’s big win over its rival Alabama, whether the Crimson Tide will get bounced from the College Football Playoff, and the University of Tennessee’s hiring and unhiring of football coach Greg Schiano.

3-on-5 basketball (22:40): Vann Newkirk of the Atlantic helps Josh and Stefan dissect Alabama’s spectacular, bizarre near-comeback against Minnesota in a basketball game in which they played three against five for most of the second half.

Grey Cup (38:49): The Toronto Star’s Bruce Arthur joins for a conversation about the Toronto Argonauts’ win over the Calgary Stampeders, and about the overwhelming Canadianness of a snow-covered football championship game.

Afterballs (50:30):

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:10.6	Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of
0:14.9	November 27th, 2017. On this week's show, Spencer Hall of SB Nation will join us to talk about the Alabama football teams lost to Auburn and Tennessee's move to hire Greg Shiano as its next football coach and then to unhire him after a fan revolt. Van Newkirk of the Atlantic will then join us to talk about the Alabama basketball team, which almost pulled off the most miraculous feat
0:37.7	in modern sports history, staging a remarkable comeback while playing with three players against
0:43.1	Minnesota's five. And finally, Bruce Arthur of the Toronto Star will chat with us about the
0:48.4	Toronto Argonauts snow-covered victory in that most Canadian of sporting events, the Grey Cup.
0:55.3	Joining me in Washington, D.C., a Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic. Hello, Stefan. Hey, Josh. I don't want to spoil anything, but there were no rouges in the Grey Cup final. All right. I just won't listen to that segment of the show. Before we get started, I want to put in a quick word for a new slate show,
1:13.3	Slow Burn. It is a podcast about Watergate. It's hosted by Leon Nafak. I have been working on it
1:19.7	with Leon, and I can assure you that it is awesome and that you will like it. If you know nothing
1:24.5	about Watergate, if you know some stuff about Watergate, you will learn a lot and you'll get a sense of what it was like to live through it.
1:31.4	The first episode is coming out this week on Tuesday, and you can listen to it and learn more at slate.com slash Watergate.
1:39.0	We should also mention the fact that our former colleague, Mike Peska, will be doing a live show for the Gist in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, November 28th.
1:48.8	Slate.com slash live to get a ticket.
1:51.9	On Saturday in Alabama, the homestanding Auburn Tigers handed the previously undefeated Alabama-Krimson Tide, their biggest regular season loss since 2010.
2:03.0	The fact that they lost by just 12 points, 26 to 14, is a testament how ridiculously
2:09.0	world historically good Alabama has been under Nick Saban. And also, it's worth noting
2:13.8	that Alabama hasn't lost any game by more than two scores since 2004, which was
2:20.3	three years before Nick Saban got there. But also, and this is weird, Sabin, the greatest
2:27.1	non-fictional football coach of modern times, is now Owen 7 against Auburn teams that have
2:32.5	won nine or more games.
2:37.0	And this particular Auburn team beat Alabama down.
2:38.4	They ran, they passed.
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