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It is Monday, August 4th, 2025.

Welcome back to Hang Up and Listen, the sports podcast here at Slate. Back with you yet again. I'm Alex Kirsner. I'm a contributing writer for Slate, and I co-host Split Zone Duo, a national college football podcast. We have a full and fun show for you this week, or an interesting show. I don't know if it's all fun, but it's a heavy topic to start.

The United States has a couple of high-profile international sporting events coming states out over the next few years. We're going to talk with the sports writer Roger Sherman, a longtime Olympics obsessive, who will join us to talk about how the United States' immigration maneuvering might affect one of those events in particular.

ESPN struck a deal with the NFL to give itself access to a bunch of big-time media assets like Red Zone and the NFL network. It's a massive deal that will subtly, or maybe not subtly,

change how we consume the biggest sport in the country. We'll talk about that too.

And in baseball, the most catastrophic trade deadline was probably that

of the Minnesota Twins, who appear to be not so much trying to win ball games as to slim down

for a sale. As usual, joining me this week is Lindsay Gibbs, the publisher of PowerPlays,

a newsletter that covers the biggest sports of the moment in women's athletics. Lindsay, how are you?

How you doing?

I'm doing so good. Tranny Rodman's return has me hyped. So stoppage time.

Stoppage time. Game winner in your first game back from injury after getting a lot of criticism

for how you spent your time away from the team when you were rehabbing. I love it. Did everybody else know about that celebrity couple with Ben Shelton? Or was I the last person to learn about that one? Did you just learn about this weekend? We were the two last ones, I think. Yeah. I think I didn't know about it until like a week or two ago, probably. They looked good together. Yeah, it was just, it was heavily featured during like French Open Wimbledon time.

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