Hang Up: Trump’s Win and Its Ripple Effect on College Sports

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🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Hosts Alex Kirshner, and Ben Lindbergh are joined by Matt Brown of Extra Points for a discussion of how unified Republican control of the government could allow the NCAA to roll back college athletes’ newly won empowerment. They also talk about the NFL’s international aspirations, possible MLB off-season moves, plus a baseball-crosswords Afterballs. On the Bonus episode, available exclusively for Slate Plus members, Ben and Alex chat about MLS and Lionel Messi’s first playoffs. Trump and the NCAA (2:49): How college sports may welcome more conservative legislation. The NFL Abroad (27:33): How much does the rest of the world really love Football? The Juan Soto Sweepstakes (46:49): Where will the generational hitter land? Afterballs (1:08:03): Ben Lindbergh on the prevalence of baseball in crosswords. (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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1:02.6	Thank you. It is Monday, November 11, 2020.
1:04.4	Welcome back to Hang Up and Listen.
1:05.7	This is Slate Sports Podcast.
1:06.8	I'm back with you again.
1:08.0	I'm Alex Kirshner.
1:12.1	I co-host the college football podcast Split Zone Duo, and I'm a contributing writer for Slate, where I write about all kinds of sporting topics. This week, our agenda is to talk
1:17.0	about the results of the recent national elections, not just the college sports landscape,
1:21.9	but the entire American sports scene. We are going to talk about the state of the NFL's efforts
1:27.1	to conquer not just the
1:28.6	United States, which it already has, but the entire international world, it seems, with Roger
1:33.2	Vidal indicating new intentions to expand on that front. And of course, we are going to talk
1:38.3	about the market for brilliant baseball players as Major League Baseball Free Agency opens up,
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