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Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by sportswriter Jessica Luther to discuss girls in baseball. Dan Nosowitz also talks about trends in basketball sneakers, and Scrabble champion Will Anderson comes on the show to recount his victory. Girls in Baseball (1:29): Jessica Luther joins to describe her time covering the elite Girls Travel Baseball team, why girls are dissuaded from playing baseball in high school, and what can be done to increase female participation in the sport. Death of the High-Top (15:53): Esquire contributor Dan Nosowitz assesses Kobe Bryant’s role in the decline of high-top basketball shoes, whether the ankle support actually works, and how sneaker-makers are finding more ways to sell shoes. Scrabble (29:38): An interview with Will Anderson, 2017 the North American Scrabble champion, with analysis of his victory, the debate over Boggle versus Scrabble, and some stump-the-champ anagramming. Afterballs (50:57): Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.8	Hi, this is Dahlia Lithwick, host of Slates Legal Podcast, Amagus. If you are listening to this show, you might be interested in Amicus's live show that we're hosting in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, May the 14th.
0:45.0	My colleague, Mark Joseph Stern, and I will be talking to some amazing guests,
0:50.0	including Cheryline Eiffel and a sitting state Supreme Court justice.
0:54.5	All about how originalism, a relatively recently invented way of interpreting the Constitution,
1:00.9	has taken over the Supreme Court and radically reshaped the law. It's been
1:05.7	doctrinal rocket fuel for the conservative legal movement and facilitated the
1:10.3	rolling 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.
1:26.5	But there's something you can do about it and we hope you'll join us in DC on May 14th
1:31.7	to explore the possible pathways out of the current situation.
1:36.2	Go to slate.com slash Amicus Live for tickets. The following podcast contains explicit language. Hi, I'm Stephen Fatsus, and this is Slate's sports podcast Hangup and Listen for the
2:00.9	week of July 31st, 2017. On this week's show we'll be joined by writer
2:06.4	Jessica Luther to talk about why with Jessica Mendoza in the E-SPN booth and Fox debuting and then cancelling a show about the first female
2:16.2	big leaguer why so few girls play baseball and what should be done about it. Then Dan Nossowitz will be here to talk about his piece for Esquire
2:25.6	about the death of the high top basketball shoe. And finally, it'll be my great honor to welcome
2:31.5	to the show Will Anderson, the newly crowned champion of Scrabble in North America.
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