Slate Money - The Sports Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2015
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of Slate Money, we respond to listener suggestions for an all-sports edition. Host Felix Salmon chats with special guest Mina Kimes of ESPN The Magazine and co-hosts Cathy O'Neil of mathbabe.org and Jordan Weissmann of Slate about the prospect of paying college athletes, the economics of stadiums, and what NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell does to earn such a big salary. And everyone explains to Felix who is playing in the Superbowl this Sunday.This episode was sponsored by Go To Meeting. Try it free for 30 days at GoToMeeting.com and click the “Try It Free” button. Complete Slate's podcast listener survey! Tell us about yourself and your favorite podcasts so Slate can serve you better. We'd appreciate two minutes of your time. Go to slate.com/survey.
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| 0:00.0 | Slate Money is sponsored by Citrix GoToMeeting. When meetings matter, millions choose Go to Meeting. |
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| 0:20.4 | Hello and welcome to the Sports edition of Slate Money. It is finally here. We promised that it was going to come. And we have made it. We have brought the ball over the finish line or some sports metaphor. I'm Felix Samin of Fusion. I'm joined as always by Kathy O'Neill, the data scientist |
| 0:40.4 | and blogger at mathbabe.org. Hi, Felix. And Slate's Moneybox columnist doing double duty today |
| 0:48.1 | as a sports columnist, Jordan Wiseman. Hello, Felix. And most importantly, Mina Kimes, who is an amazing writer and doer of amazing things, |
| 0:59.9 | ESPN, The Magazine. |
| 1:01.6 | It has a definite article in its title. |
| 1:05.4 | Why is it called ESPN The Magazine and not The ESPN Magazine? |
| 1:10.3 | What? |
| 1:11.2 | The ESPN Magazine sounds really stupid. |
| 1:14.3 | It would be sort of like saying the, it's like saying the Ohio State University. |
| 1:17.6 | Everyone's kind of chuckles whenever they hear that. |
| 1:19.1 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 1:20.1 | Okay, well, so welcome, Mina. |
| 1:22.9 | Thank you. |
| 1:23.4 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:23.9 | You are here as a resident sports expert. |
| 1:28.0 | You know everything about sports. I am here as our resident sports expert. You know everything about sports. |
| 1:28.9 | I am here as our resident sports ignoramus. |
| 1:32.3 | I know absolutely nothing about sports. |
| 1:35.0 | And so I am not going to even pretend to introduce any of these topics. |
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