The Bernie and LeBron Are Both on Board Edition

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Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by SB Nation’s Matt Brown to talk about California’s Fair Pay to Play Act; the New York Times’ Joe Drape discusses Triple Crown winner Justify’s positive drug test; and ex-NFL player Ryan O’Callaghan joins for a conversation about his memoir My Life on the Line. Fair Pay to Play Act (01:54): What does this California legislation mean for the future of college sports and athlete compensation? Justify (21:49): What we know about the horse, its trainer Bob Baffert, and the process whereby a positive drug test got tossed out. Ryan O’Callaghan (39:53): What it was like to be a closeted player in the NFL, and how his life changed after coming out. Afterballs (59:26): Stefan on the Dickerod and Josh on coaches’ wives as “recruits.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.2	Hello, I'm Josh Levine,
0:09.7	Slates National Editor and the author of The Queen. This is Slate's
0:13.6	Sports Podcast hang up in lesson for the week of September 16th, 2019. On this
0:19.4	week's show, Matt Brown of Asking Nation will join us, talk about California's Fair Pay to Play Act, the bill that
0:26.0	could at last allow college athletes to profit off of their names, images, and likenesses.
0:32.2	Joe Drape of the New York Times also be here
0:34.6	to discuss the hushing up of a positive drug test
0:37.6	for last year's Triple Crown Winning Horse Justify.
0:40.8	And finally, former NFL offensive linemen Ryan O' Callahan will be here for a conversation
0:46.3	about his new memoir, My Life on the Line, which he explains what it was like to play in the
0:51.3	NFL while in the closet.
0:54.0	Joining me in Slate Washington, D.C. studio is Stephen Fatsis,
0:57.3	author of the book's Word Freak, and a few seconds of panic.
1:01.0	Hello, Stephen.
1:02.0	Hello Josh. It's a tough day from me.
1:04.9	Yeah.
1:05.9	The studio.
1:06.9	Especially for me. Some of our older NFL players going through a rough time.
1:10.9	As of the time we're recording this, Ben Rothlissberger,
1:14.2	out for the year with an elbow.
1:15.7	No, feel for that guy.
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