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Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2018

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Stefan Fatsis is joined by ESPN’s Dave McMenamin to break down the epic buzzer-beater by LeBron James in Game 3 of the NBA’s Eastern Conference playoffs and by hockey writer Sean McIndoe to discuss the Stanley Cup playoffs. Slate’s Christina Cauterucci and Juliet Macur of the New York Times talk about the exploitative treatment of NFL cheerleaders. And ESPN’s Sam Miller explains how there were more strikeouts than hits in the major leagues in a month for the first time ever. LeBron (3:15): Stefan and ESPN’s Dave McMenamin conduct a forensic breakdown of LeBron James’s seemingly impossible game-winning shot against the Toronto Raptors. NHL playoffs (21:39): Stefan and hockey writer Sean McIndoe discuss the Vegas Golden Knights, the Winnipeg Jets, a rare playoff suspension, and Brad Marchand of the Boston Bruins licking his opponents. Cheerleaders (43:50): Slate’s Christina Cauterucci and Juliet Macur of the New York Times talk with Stefan about Juliet’s reporting on the treatment of cheerleaders for Washington’s NFL team Baseballs (1:01:32): ESPN’s Sam Miller talks with Stefan about the decade-long rise in strikeouts and whether Major League Baseball needs to do something about it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.9	The following podcast contains explicit language. Hi, I'm Stephen Fatsus, and this is Slate's Sports Podcast, hang up and listen for the week of May 7th, 2018.
0:51.0	On this week's show, E-SPN's Dave McManaman and I will deconstruct the ridiculous shot by
0:57.1	LeBron James that beat the Toronto Raptors in game three of their playoff series. Hockey writer Sean Mackendoo will stop by
1:05.7	to discuss the NHL playoffs including the Vegas Golden Knights and also what to do
1:11.2	when one player licks another player.
1:13.8	That's right, licks another player.
1:16.0	Then Juliet McCur of the New York Times will be here
1:19.5	to talk about her report on the degrading treatment
1:22.2	of the cheerleaders for Washington's National Football
1:25.0	League team.
1:26.3	And finally, ESPNs Sam Miller will join me to talk about a milestone for the first time ever. There were more
1:33.7	strikeouts than hits in a month of Major League Baseball. Josh Levine is
1:39.8	Slate's editorial director. He is away this week. I am the author most recently of the
1:45.1	Deadspin Post. Jim Bob Ghost Keeper is the 2018 name of the year and I have to say
1:51.2	that I feel like the voters got it right.
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