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Hang Up and Listen

The Coronavirus and Sports Edition

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin talk about the rise of Zion Williamson. They also discuss the legends and myths of the NFL’s scouting combine and assess how the spread of the coronavirus will affect sports around the world.   Zion (3:59): Understanding the might and charisma of the teenage NBA superstar.   NFL combine (19:49): Is pro football’s annual scouting carnival actually useful as an evaluation tool?   Coronavirus (36:08): How teams, leagues, and the Olympics might be affected. Afterballs (49:35): Stefan on a historic Penn collapse and Josh on a fateful kick over the uprights. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Dahlia Lithwick, host of Slates Legal Podcast, amicus. If you're listening to this

0:06.7

show, you might be interested in Amicus's live show that we're hosting in Washington,

0:11.6

D.C. on Tuesday, May the 14th.

0:15.0

My colleague, Mark Joseph Stern, and I will be talking to some amazing guests,

0:20.0

including Cheryline Eiffel and a sitting state Supreme Court justice.

0:24.4

All about how originalism, a relatively recently invented way of interpreting the Constitution,

0:30.8

has taken over the Supreme Court and radically reshaped the law.

0:35.2

It's been doctrinal rocket fuel for the conservative legal movement and facilitated the rolling

0:40.5

back of abortion rights, the expansion of gun rights, and the obliteration of the separation of church and state. And as another wildly consequential Supreme Court term, careers to its end, the Court's originalists are on a tear.

0:56.4

But there's something you can do about it, and we hope you'll join us in D.C. on May 14th

1:01.6

to explore the possible pathways out of the current situation, go to

1:06.5

slate.com slash Amicus live for tickets.

1:11.6

The following podcast contains explicit language.

1:15.6

Hide Your Children. Hello, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's National Editor and the author of The Queen.

1:27.0

This is Hang Up and Listen for the week of March 2nd, 2020.

1:31.0

On this week show, we're going to discuss the rise of 19 year old basketball demi-god

1:37.2

Zion Williamson.

1:38.2

We'll also discuss the legends and the myths of the NFL scouting combine.

1:43.0

And finally, we will assess how the spread of the coronavirus

1:46.6

will affect sports around the world.

1:48.4

And don't panic.

1:49.8

We're going to have this conversation in a sane

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