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Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of August 27, 2018.

On this week's show, we'll be joined by journalist Jessica Luther to discuss

Ohio State's decision to suspend but not fire. It's football coach Urban Meyer for three games

for his failure to do much of anything about domestic abuse allegations against an assistant

coach. John Branch of the New York Times will also come on the show to talk

about the subculture of speedcubing, his son's fascination with the Rubik's Cube, and the autistic

teenager who can twirl a cube faster than anyone in the world. And we're going to close things out

by playing two of our favorite bonus segments from this year, a conversation about the perils of co-ed sports

teams, and another about the Chinese nicknames of NBA players. Joining me in Washington, D.C.,

is Stefan Fatsis, author of The Book's Word Freak, and A Few Seconds of Panic, a man who is enthralled

by preseason football on Thursday night. Before we get into that,

I should say that we're recording us on Friday instead of our usual Monday. So preseason football

from Thursday night is fresh in our minds. It is the main sports event in right in the front

of my brain right now. Why were you enthralled? Well, because you, because you emailed me at,

and said that the Cleveland Browns were ahead of the Philadelphia Eagles five to nothing in the fourth

quarter. Yeah, I think when it's, when there's a score of five in the fourth quarter, there should be a

Twitter account, a single serving Twitter account that alerts only Stefan and no one else.

There are others out there I've discovered who share this obsession.

So one thing that we were both surprised to find out is that five to nothing is actually a more

common final score than five to three.

There's only been one five to three, but there have been three five to nothing.

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