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Hello, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor and the author of The Queen.

This is Slate's sports podcast hanging up and listen for the week of September 9th, 2019.

On this week's show, The New Yorkers Louisa Thomas will join us to talk about Bianca Andrescu's big win over Serena Williams at the U.S. Open and Rafael Nidal's remarkable five-set victory over Deneal Medvedev.

Our colleague Ben Mathis Lilley will also be here to assess Antonio Brown's transcendent, if short-lived career with the Oakland Raiders.

And his escape to the New England Patriots.

We'll also discuss the Clemson Tigers College Football Dynasty and the perhaps over-the-top may be creepy techniques.

Its coaches and staffers have used to build and maintain it.

Joining me in Slate's Washington, D.C. studio is Stefan Fancis. He's the author of the book's Word Freak and a few

seconds of panic. Stefan, I'm upset with you. Why? You know. You know why. Because at the end of the

Greece-U.S. game in the basketball World Cup, your countrymen, the lesser Antedacompo fantasy, flagrantly maliciously fouled my countryman,

Harrison Barnes. And no apology from you, from any of the Greece players. We apologize to no one

for nothing. No one for nothing. I like it. That's the Greece, the national motto. Yes. Since one of you big Harrison Barnes defender, anyway. Love Harrison Barnes. You know, anyone who wears the red, white, and blue, and the stars and stripes, I'm a fan of theirs. And whoever wears the blue and white, I'm a fan of. Zitoi Elada. All right. Agree to disagree. Serena Williams won her 23rd Grand Slam

title at the 2017 Australian Open, beating her sister Venus, while amazingly she was pregnant

with her daughter, Alexis Olympia. A year and a half later, after a difficult pregnancy

and birth and a bunch of injuries, Serena even more amazingly made it all the way to

the Wimbledon final before losing to Angelique Kerber. In the next Grand Slam after that,

she lost to Naomi Osaka in the U.S. Open final, the match made famous by her series of confrontations

with Chair Empire Carlos Ramos. This year, after losing in the quarterfinals in Australia and

the third round of the

French Open, Serena made it back to the Wimbledon final, where she got blown out by

Simone Halop. In this past weekend, in yet another U.S. Open final, Serena Williams failed for

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