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Hi, this is Josh Levine and this is Slate's sports podcast. Hang up and listen for the week of December 8th, 2014.

On this week's show, we'll talk about the four team selected for the inaugural

college football playoff and the two, Baylor and TCU that got left out. We'll also discuss

the shuttering of the football program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, because

according to the school, the cost of maintaining that program were shockingly high.

Is it at Birmingham or just Birmingham?

I looked it up on the internet.

Wow.

That's, use the at.

That's what I do.

That's what I do for the fans, for the listeners.

We will conduct an exit interview with outgoing ESPN ombudsman Robert Lipsite,

who's been writing about the worldwide leaders ins and outs for the last 18 months.

Then our bonus segment for Slate Plus members, we will talk about Grantland series of short

films on Landed Donovan, who played his last soccer game in Sunday's MLS Cup final.

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