The Make America Cheat Again Edition

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Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin discuss the women’s NCAA tournament with Lindsay Gibbs of ThinkProgress. Sports Illustrated’s Chris Ballard also joins to talk about Giannis Antetokounmpo. Finally, Slate’s Jim Newell assesses Donald Trump’s cheating on the golf course. NCAA tournament (2:01): How did Baylor beat defending champ Notre Dame? And what should we make of Baylor coach Kim Mulkey and Notre Dame’s Muffet McGraw? Giannis (25:59): How coach Mike Budenholzer helped transform the Milwaukee Bucks and gave the Greek Freak space to become the NBA MVP. Trump and golf (40:44): Does Rick Reilly’s reporting on Trump’s cheating tell us anything about the president that we didn’t already know? Afterballs(58:50): Stefan on the history of the participation trophy and Josh on burning infields. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:05.0	Hi, this is Josh Levine and this is Slate's
0:10.0	Sports Podcast hang up and listen for the
0:15.1	week of April 8th 2019 on this week show Lindsay Gibbs of Think Progress will be
0:20.6	here to talk about Baylor's thrilling one point
0:23.0	win over Notre Dame which made them the champions of women's
0:26.4	college basketball. Sports Illustrated's Chris Ballard will also be on the show
0:30.3	to discuss his story on how Janus on Tetticumpo became the probable
0:35.0	NBA MVP,
0:36.0	sorry James Harden.
0:38.0	And finally, Slates Jim Newell
0:40.0	will come on to discuss the shocking allegations
0:42.0	that Donald Trump cheats at golf.
0:45.3	Impeach!
0:46.3	Impeach!
0:47.3	Here with me in our Washington DC studio is my co-host Stephen Fatsus, author of the book's
0:52.0	word freak in a few seconds of panic.
0:55.2	How does it feel, Stephen, to be introduced by the author of the upcoming book, The Queen,
1:00.0	available on May 21st?
1:01.8	That would not be a good introduction for me because I did not write the Queen. You did?
1:06.7	Josh's book is out in May. We promoted it last week, Pesca and I.
1:11.1	Thank you. You didn't hear the show. Apparently Josh was in Vietnam where
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