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🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Hosts Alex Kirshner, Lindsay Gibbs, and Ben Lindbergh talk about the NFL Draft and the media’s response leading up to its most shocking picks. Ben provides his April baseball rundown, and later, the panel is joined by The Entertainment Strategy Guy for an interview about major media buyers’ feelings about F1. On the bonus episode available exclusively for Slate Plus members, the panel discusses Nottingham Forest, the small but scrappy Premier League club vying for a Champions League spot. NFL Draft (4:23): Shedeur and the other major moves over the weekend MLB month one (23:50): Where does the season stand, thirty games in? F1 media problems (46:52): The motorsport’s ratings don’t match its asking price (Note: time codes are only accurate for Slate Plus members, who listen ad-free.) Want more Hang Up and Listen? Subscribe to Slate Plus to immediately unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page, or visit slate.com/hangupplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.6	It is Monday, April 28th, 2025. Welcome back to Hang Up and Listen, the sports podcast here at Slate. Back with you yet again. I am Alex Kirshner, a contributing writer for Slate, and I also co-host the college football podcast, Split Zone Duo. This week we have a big show for you. We will talk about the NFL draft and the major slide that Colorado quarterback
1:28.6	Shitter Sanders went through going all the way from a projected, but maybe never real. We don't know.
1:33.6	Top 10 pick to getting drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the fifth round. We will mark the first
1:39.7	month of the Major League Baseball season with some discussion of spring surprises, which unexpected
1:44.9	Aprils were a sign of things to come, and which were a mirage. And as Formula One gets set for a race
1:51.6	in Miami this week, its first stateside race of the year, we will talk to an expert about the
1:57.0	sports seemingly blunted momentum off the track. As usual, joining me this week is Lindsay Gibbs, the publisher of PowerPlays, a newsletter that
2:05.1	covers the key stories of the moment in women's sports.
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