The Buckeyes Are Champs Again

Hang Up and Listen

Slate Podcasts

News, Sports, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Hosts Alex Kirshner, Ben Lindbergh, and Lindsay Gibbs examine college football’s first twelve-team playoff and how Ohio State won it all. The panel then talks about the NFL playoffs with Jayden Daniels’ continued rise and Lamar Jackson’s sad defeat. They also chat about Roki Sasaki’s decision to join the Dodgers, plus an Afterball from Ben on goalie goals! On the bonus episode available exclusively for Slate Plus members, the hosts discuss the Biden administration's last-minute guidance on revenue sharing in college sports. CFB Championship (2:08) Ohio State wins it all. NFL playoffs (21:14): The sad collapse of the Detroit Lions. Roki Sassaki: (40:22): The predictable L.A. landing spot for the Japanese hurler. Afterballs (58:49): Ben on hockey goalie goals. (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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0:22.9	entrepreneurs like you. Sign up for your $1 listen, the sports podcast here at Slate. Back with you again. I am Alex Kirsner. I am a contributing writer for Slate,
0:55.0	and I also co-host the College Football Podcast Split Zone Duo. This weekend, I was in Atlanta,
1:00.6	where a couple of college football teams also were. This week, my great panel and I will talk about
1:05.5	the College Football Playoff National Championship, won by Ohio State on Monday night.
1:09.9	We will go through the divisional round
1:11.4	of the NFL playoffs, which saw the postseason there, finally get good after a bunch of Dudd
1:16.2	wildcard games, and we will get deep into the Dodgers landing Japanese pitching phenom
1:20.9	Roki Sasaki and what it portends or does not portend for the rest of baseball. As usual,
1:26.8	joining me this week is Lindsay Gibbs, the publisher of PowerPlays,
1:30.6	a newsletter that covers the biggest stories of the moment in women's sports.
1:34.5	Lindsay, hello.
1:35.9	Hi.
1:37.1	Great to be here, as always.
1:39.7	And of course, we have Ben Lindberg with us.
1:42.2	Ben is a senior editor for The Ringer, and he co-hosts
1:44.8	effectively wild, a baseball podcast where he has himself discussed the rookie Sasaki News. He'll expand
1:50.7	on that here. Ben, hello. Hi, I'm chilly. I just dropped my daughter at school. The wind chill in
1:56.2	New York was negative two. I did not literally drop my daughter, but still, I understand what Mark
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