Hang Up and Listen - The Year Without Caitlin Clark
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🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Hosts Alex Kirshner, Ben Lindbergh, and Lindsay Gibbs discuss the WNBA playoffs and the Indiana Fever's surprise success, despite an injured Caitlin Clark. They get into the uptick in long NFL field goals. Then they speak with managing editor of True Blue LA, Eric Stephen, about the career and retirement of Clayton Kershaw. For Afterballs, Ben recaps the final week of the MLB regular season and its nail-biting finishes.
On the bonus episode available exclusively for Slate Plus members, the hosts discuss the ongoing gambling scandal in college basketball.
WNBA (3:18): Can Indiana continue to rise?
NFL field goals (17:32): Why are there so many 60-yarders?
Clayton Kershaw (31:26): The Dodgers ace hangs it up.
Afterballs (52:16): Will the Mets and Tigers continue to spiral?
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| 1:22.2 | Thank you. It is Monday, September 22, 2025. Welcome back to hang up and listen, the sports podcast here at Slate. Back with you again, I'm Alex Kirchner. I'm a contributing writer for Slate, |
| 1:44.8 | and I also co-host the college football podcast Split Zone duo. The WMBA playoffs are ongoing, |
| 1:51.0 | and the Indiana fever are on a nice run, but Caitlin Clark out for the year after suffering a litany |
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