No More Locker Room Talk

Hang Up and Listen

Slate Podcasts

News, Sports, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Split Zone Duo’s Alex Kirshner, Power Plays’ Lindsay Gibbs, and the Ringer’s Ben Lindbergh chat about the NFL Players Association’s calls to revoke media access to locker rooms, the controversy surrounding a transgender volleyball player at San Jose State, and the wild week in college football. On the Bonus episode, exclusively for Slate Plus members, the hosts discuss Pete Rose’s historic and sordid legacy. NFL Locker Rooms (2:35): Media access vs. player privacy San Jose State Volleyball (23:53): The drama surrounding a transgender player CFB (46:30): Vanderbilt beats Alabama (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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0:28.1	dotco. UK. Ooh. It's Monday, October 7th, 2024.
0:50.0	Welcome back to Hang Up and Listen, Slate Sports Podcast. Back with you again.
0:53.5	I am Alex Kirsner, a contributing writer for Slate,
0:56.1	and a co-host of Split Zone Duo, a national college football
0:59.1	podcast, but of course on Hangup, we talk about all kinds of sports stories. Today our panel talks about a burgeoning
1:05.2	fight over media access to NFL locker rooms. We will discuss a panic in the Mountain West
1:10.0	conference over a trans volleyball player who's already been in the league for several years but whose very existence has stirred up just now seemingly a big problem and we'll talk about a wild week in college football paving the way for the most wide open championship race in,
1:24.3	maybe ever.
1:26.4	We will see.
1:27.4	Returning this week is Ben Lindbergh.
1:28.8	He is a senior editor for the Ringer and is the co-host of the effectively wild podcast. He is the co-author of the MVP machine,
1:35.6	how baseball's new non-conformists are using data to build better players and the only rules it has to work
1:41.6	are wild experiment building a new kind of
1:43.7	baseball team. You might know him from his previous work at 538 or Grantland or
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