The March Equals Madness Edition

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin discuss Duke’s crazy NCAA Tournament win over UCF. They also talk about Michigan State coach Tom Izzo’s sideline behavior, and Ian Eagle joins the show to explain how play-by-play announcers call buzzer-beaters. Duke-UCF (1:14): How the Blue Devils pulled it out, and how Zion vs. Tacko lived up to its advance billing. Tom Izzo (14:20): Assessing the national conversation about Izzo’s anger issues and how coaches should treat players. Buzzer-beaters (34:48): CBS’ Ian Eagle describes how he calls game-winning plays and explains the elements of a memorable call. Afterballs(57:32): Stefan on the origins of the term “punch drunk” and Josh on Canadian superjocks and immigration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:04.0	Hi, this is Josh Levine and this is Slates's Sports Podcast Hang Up and Listen for the
0:14.6	week of March 25th 2019. On this week's show we'll talk about Duke's
0:19.2	victory over UCF in the greatest battle of our age, Zion versus Taco. We'll then discuss the kerfuffle over Michigan
0:28.0	state coach Tom Izzo yelling at his players.
0:32.6	And finally, announcer Ian Eagle will join us to explain how to call a March Madness game winner.
0:40.9	Here with me in our Washington DC studio is my co-host Stephen Fatsus, author of the book's Word Freak
0:47.1	and a few seconds of panic. Hello, Stephen.
0:49.3	Hello, Josh.
0:51.9	What does that mean? That means, hello Josh.
0:55.0	Hello, Stephen.
0:57.0	This is a thing is going to be a thing, isn't it for you?
1:03.0	Oh yeah, I can predict that he is a thing
1:06.0	is going to be a conversation.
1:08.2	All right, I'm going to wind Stephan up
1:10.3	and let him go in mere moments.
1:15.0	Hi, this is Dahlia Lithwick, host of Slate's legal podcast Amagus.
1:20.0	If you're listening to this show, you might be interested in Amicus's live show that we're
1:25.0	hosting in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, May the 14th.
1:29.6	My colleague Mark Joseph Stern and I will be talking to some amazing guests, including
1:34.6	Cheryl and A Sitting State Supreme Court Justice, all about how originalism, a relatively
1:41.4	recently invented way of interpreting the Constitution has taken over the Supreme Court and radically reshaped the law.
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