Hang Up and Listen - The WNBA’s Caitlin Clark Drama
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🗓️ 3 June 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Joel Anderson and Josh Levin are joined by Howard Megdal of the Next to discuss the tumultuous beginning to Caitlin Clark’s rookie season. Historian and author Larry Lester also joins to explain how records from the Negro Leagues finally got incorporated into the major-league record book. Finally, Joel speaks with Arena Football League player Tamatoa Silva about how it felt to watch an entire league come crashing down around him.
Caitlin Clark (2:49): Dissecting all the drama surrounding the WNBA star.
Negro Leagues (25:23): What to know about all the new stats, and why it took so long for MLB to add them to the record book.
Arena Football League (47:56): A conversation about life on the football fringes.
Afterball (59:48): Josh on Dejounte Murray and the greatest NBA quote of all time.
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| 0:59.0 | This podcast contains explicit language. |
| 1:02.0 | If you want to know how explicit, keep listening. Hi, I'm Josh Levine, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of June 3rd, |
| 1:24.4 | 2024. |
| 1:26.2 | On this week's show, Howard Meggdahl of the next will join us to talk about the tumultuous |
| 1:30.4 | beginning to Caitlin Clark's WNba career full of hardfowls and a two and nine record for her Indiana fever. |
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