The Goalie Is an Accountant Edition

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Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2018

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Josh Levin and Stefan Fatsis discuss the women’s NCAA tournament with Jere Longman and Kara Lawson. Patrick Fort also joins to talk about emergency hockey goalies, and they interview Jack Alexander and Bill Bunten about sports before Brown v. Board. NCAA Tournament (2:20): The New York Times’ Jere Longman and ESPN’s Kara Lawson come on the show for a conversation about the last three games of the women’s basketball tournament, all of which were decided at the buzzer. Emergency Goalies (29:18): How did a full-time accountant end up playing goalie for the Chicago Blackhawks? Should baseball, football, and other sports have rules that allow non-professionals to suit up in an emergency? Sports Before School Desegregation (43:07): Jack Alexander played basketball for the all-black Ramblers. Bill Bunten played for the all-white Trojans. The two men reflect on sports before school desegregation, and how coaching legend Dean Smith helped integrate the Topeka High School basketball team. Afterballs(56:18): Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:54.0	On this week show, we'll be joined by Jere Longman of the New York Times and E.S. Pian's
0:58.6	Carol Lawson to discuss Notre Dame's crazily dramatic win
1:02.6	over Mississippi State in the women's tournament.
1:05.6	We'll also talk about the hockey phenomenon
1:07.6	of the emergency backup goalie,
1:10.1	one of whom a 36-year-old accountant named Scott Foster just took the ice for the Chicago
1:16.2	Black Hawks. And finally, the week after the death of Linda Brown of Brown v Board of Education
1:22.3	Fame, will be joined by Jack Alexander and Bill Bunton
1:26.0	to talk about playing basketball in Kansas in the 1940s when Topeka High School
1:31.4	had separate teams for black and white students.
1:35.0	Joining me in our studio in beautiful Washington DC,
1:38.5	mere blocks away from the Renwick Gallery,
1:41.5	which is currently putting on an burning man exhibition that I'm a little
1:45.2	bit wary of. It is Stephan Fatzus, the author of several extremely high quality books.
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