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Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Joel Anderson and Stefan Fatsis talk about the latest on the coronavirus and sports. They are joined by former NFL player Domonique Foxworth and former NFL executive Andrew Brandt to break down the league’s new labor deal. Hall of Fame soccer player Julie Foudy assesses the women’s national team’s equal-pay fight. Finally, they interview Tegan Hanlon of Alaska Public Media about the Iditarod sled-dog race. Coronavirus (02:25): The reality of life without sports has set in. NFL (16:37): Did the players get fleeced by the owners? Women’s soccer (37:52): The U.S. Soccer Federation argued that “indisputable science” proved that its World Cup-winning women’s team was inferior to men. Iditarod (52:36): As the rest of the sports world ground to a halt, the Iditarod mushes on across Alaska. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast includes explicit language not restricted to words beginning with F,us, the author of Word Freak and a few seconds of panic and this is Slate's
0:19.2	Sports Podcast. Hangout and Listen for the week of March 16, 2020.
0:24.8	On this week's show, we will review the unprecedented near total shutdown of sports
0:30.6	in the last week due to the coronavirus.
0:33.0	Former NFL executive Andrew Brandt and ESPN commentator and
0:38.0	former NFL player, Dominique Foxworth,
0:41.0	will be here to assess the league's new collective bargaining agreement,
0:44.8	which was approved by players over the weekend.
0:48.3	Soccer Hall of Famer Julie Fowdy will also join us to talk about the latest developments in the U.S. women's soccer team's
0:54.8	equal pay fight.
0:56.3	And finally, we'll interview Tegan Hamlin of Alaska public media about one of the few sporting events that's still happening the Iditarod sled dog race.
1:07.0	Josh Levine is Slate's National Editor and the author of The Queen, The Forgotten Life
1:12.3	Behind an American Myth, he's taking the week off. and the author of the Queen, the forgotten life
1:12.5	behind an American myth.
1:14.0	He's taking the week off, mostly to work
1:16.1	on season four of Sloburn, but also, I hope,
1:19.2	to bask and bump elbows after winning the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award for
1:26.6	biography. I'm going to say that again. Josh Levine, author of the Queen, co-host of this podcast, won the 2020 National Book Critics Circle
1:37.2	Award for Biography.
1:39.5	That is just an incredible achievement and also totally deserved and we are so so proud of him.
1:46.2	Congrats Josh. I'm on lockdown in the attic of my house in Washington DC.
1:50.9	Joining me also on lockdown from Palo Alto, California is
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