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 November 7th, 2016.

On today's show, we'll talk about covering sports and politics in 2016, and the differences in similarities therein. We'll also assess

the college football season thus far and try to come to terms with the world in which Alabama

beats LSU six times in a row. Some of us are having more difficulty with that than others.

And we'll discuss Harvard's decision to suspend its men's soccer team for the rest of this season over a series of degrading and sexually explicit scouting reports that male players wrote about their counterparts on the women's team.

Stefan Fatsis is out this week, but joining me, as always, from New York is Mike Peska, the host of Slate's Daily

podcast, The Gist. Hey, Mike.

Hi, how are you? Good. Filling in this week, it's Brian Curtis, formerly of Slate and

Grantland, currently the editor at-large for the ringer, bringing us a West Coast perspective. We always try to keep things balanced

on the show, talking to him from L.A. Hello, Brian. I'm happy to be the Rule 5 pickup of

Hangup and Listen this week. Such an honor. Does anyone know Rules 1 through 4? It's like all those

other chapters of bankruptcy.

It's one of those few cases in sports other than Super Bowl numerology where the rule is a Roman numeral.

Rule V?

It's rule V.

Yeah.

Do you have any whimsy watch nominees this week, Pesca?

Squirrel.

Did you see the squirrel?

Yeah, that was at Lambo.

Yeah.

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