Introducing the Lead
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
From The Athletic and Wondery, The Lead is the first daily sports podcast that will bring you one big story from The Athletic's all-star team of local and national sports reporters to make you the most knowledgeable sports fan in any room.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends. If you listen to the Audible, we know that you can't get enough of a good sports story. |
| 0:11.9 | And that's why The Athletic is excited to share a new daily sports podcast with our friends at Wondry that you're going to want to tune into. |
| 0:19.1 | It's called The Lead. This is going to be |
| 0:21.6 | your favorite daily sports podcast. Each weekday morning, the lead will bring you one big story |
| 0:27.3 | from the athletics, all-star team of local and national sports reporters to make you the most |
| 0:31.6 | knowledgeable sports fan in the room. From the lasting impact of the blown pass interference call |
| 0:36.7 | in last season's NFC championship |
| 0:38.1 | game to Marta's viral video from the 2019 Women's World Cup to other hot button stories, |
| 0:44.2 | the lead is your daily lens into the biggest stories of the day told by the people that write them. |
| 0:49.7 | The lead is hosted by sports writer Kavitha Davidson and Peabody Award-winning journalist Anders Kelto, |
| 0:55.0 | and they'll take you behind the scenes with exclusive interviews you won't hear anywhere else. |
| 1:00.7 | You're about to hear a preview of the first episode of the lead, |
| 1:04.0 | featuring a recap of Sunday's eagerly awaited Saints Rams rematch. |
| 1:08.1 | And what really went down after that controversial no-call in last season's |
| 1:12.8 | playoffs. Shocker, the Saints got screwed again in Sunday's game. While you're listening, |
| 1:18.7 | check out to theathletic.com slash the lead for the leads featured articles on the athletic |
| 1:23.0 | and go subscribe to the lead on Apple Podcasts or wherever you're listening right now. There's also a link in the episode notes that will take you there. |
| 1:35.0 | In last season's NFL playoffs, as every football fan remembers, |
| 1:39.6 | the New Orleans Saints were on the verge of a trip to the Super Bowl. |
| 1:45.0 | Quick snap. |
| 1:46.1 | Breeze. |
| 1:46.9 | But then... |
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