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Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by Dallas Wings star Liz Cambage to discuss the state of the WNBA. VeloNews’ Frederick Dreier talks about the Tour de France. Finally, Keith Barnes of the Mamie Johnson Little League talks his history-making team. Liz Cambage (1:42): The All-Star center has spoken out against basketball's gender wage gap and WNBA officiating. Will the league listen? Tour de France (19:25): What do we know about Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas? Is it good for cycling that the Chris Froome era is winding down? And what should we make of Lance Armstrong’s latest apology? Little League (38:04): A squad representing the Mamie "Peanut" Johnson Little League just became the first all-black team to win the Washington D.C. city championship. The league president explains how they got there. Afterballs(51:15): Stefan on a beloved Boston journalist who wrote about the ravages of the NFL and Josh on what LeBron James Jr. can learn from Michael Jordan’s kids. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.3	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:34.0	Hi, this is Josh Levine and this is
0:40.0	Slates' sports podcast Hangup and Listen for the week of July 30th, 2018.
0:46.7	On this week's show, W-NBA All-Star Liz Cambeige will be here to talk about her record setting 53 point game, the state of women's
0:56.0	basketball in the US and her struggles with depression. Fred Dreyer of Vello News
1:01.6	will also join us to talk about Welshman Gerine Thomas's win in the Tour de France,
1:08.0	the strange saga of former champion Chris Froom, and Lance Armstrong's latest attempt at Redemption.
1:15.0	Finally, Keith Barnes, the President of Washington DC's Mamie Johnson Little League,
1:21.0	will join us to talk about the first all-black team to win the
1:24.1	District's little league title. Joining me from our DC studio is
1:29.0	Stephan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds of Panic.
1:35.0	Blockbuster lineup this week, Stephan, how are you?
1:37.0	It was a fun lineup.
1:39.0	I didn't make my Little League All-Star team to compete on the road to the little league world series.
1:44.8	I made the all star team for like within the league a couple times but not like the travel team.
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