Hang Up: Michigan’s Spygate

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🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, are joined by Slate’s Ben Mathis-Lilley to talk about allegations that the Michigan football team is running a sign-stealing operation. They also discuss flag football becoming an Olympic sport. Finally, ESPN’s Greg Wyshynski comes on for a conversation about the National Hockey League’s ban on rainbow-colored Pride Tape. Michigan (1:54): Are the Wolverines cheating? And what does a guy named Connor Stalions have to do with it? Flag football (23:12): Will NFL players take the field at the 2028 Games? Pride Tape (41:54): The Arizona Coyotes’ Travis Dermott defied the ban. What happens now? Afterball (01:05:41): Stefan on the first woman kicker in college football who’s also a rated tournament Scrabble player. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.0	Hide your children. Hi, I'm Josh Levine, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of October 23.
0:24.3	On this week's show, Slates Ben Mathis Lily will be here
0:27.2	to talk about allegations that the Michigan football team is running a big time sign stealing operation.
0:33.2	We'll also ponder how the universe will change
0:35.9	now that Flag Football is an Olympic sport,
0:38.4	and ESPN's Greg Waczynski will come on
0:41.0	for a conversation about the National Hockey League's move to ban rainbow-colored pride tape and one-player's decision to defy that ban.
0:50.0	I'm in Washington, D.C. and I'm the author of the Queen and the host of the podcast one year,
0:55.0	our season 1 year, 1955, is available and you should listen.
0:59.8	Also in D.C. Stephen Fadzis, he's the author of the book's Word Freak,
1:03.0	a few seconds of panic, and wild and outside.
1:06.2	Hello, Stephen.
1:07.4	Hey Josh.
1:09.0	What's up?
1:09.8	Nothing much.
1:10.8	Great.
1:12.0	Let's talk some sports.
1:14.0	A lot of folks have been wondering about where our friend and colleague Joel Anderson has been, and
1:17.8	after this weekend's blowout TCU lost to Kansas State, I can report that he's hiding
1:22.0	in an undisclosed location,
1:23.7	preparing a national campaign to fire Sunny Dykes.
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