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Hi, I'm Stefan Fatsis, and this is Slates Sports Podcast. Hang up and listen for the week of March 28,

2022. On this week's show, Nicole Alibok of the Athletic will be with us to break down the

All Blue Blood Men's Final Four, Duke North Carolina, Hubei, and Villanova Kansas, as well as the

latest in the Women's Tournament. New York Times National Politics Reporter, CNN Political

Analyst, and for the purposes of this show, Soccer Fam, A Stead Herndon will be here to discuss

the U.S. Men's National Soccer Teams, Crucial, 5-1 Below Out of Panama, and other news in World Cup

Qualifying. Finally, we've got an interview with ESPN's Beaumonti Jones about his new HBO sports

talk show Game Theory with Beaumonti Jones. Josh Levine is enjoying a deserved break after editing

my slate piece about playing that crazy word Bush Veld at a Scrabble Tournament. I'm really

pleased with how that one turned out. Everyone should go read it. I am still the author of word

freak a few seconds of panic, and wild and outside. I am back in Washington, D.C. from Mexico City,

where I watched the USA and Mexico play to a zero-zero draw at fabled Estadio Estecca last week.

Long way to go to see no goals from inside Barbed wire in the upper-est part of the upper deck,

but I'm glad I made the trip, and I'll talk about it in the Afterball segment. Joining me

from Palo Alto, California, it's Slate Staff writer Joel Anderson, the host of Slowburn Season 6,

the LA Riots, which last week won an Ambi Award for Excellence in Audio as Best History Podcast.

Congratulations, Joel. Thank you, Seth. I appreciate you saying that.

Yeah, man, and your piece was great. You should take a little exception to the idea that,

you know, your piece was so grueling to edit that it sent Josh on a two-week vacation.

I thought it was very, it was delightful. Just a little license. Josh had a couple of good

suggestions. It wasn't like he re-wrote it or anything. Okay, all right, all right. I was like,

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