The Nudity as a Social Construct Edition

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Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2018

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by Slate’s Jim Newell to discuss Tiger Woods’ near-win at the PGA Championship, SB Nation’s Spencer Hall talks about toxic college football cultures, and ESPN’s Sam Miller assesses the effectiveness of shifts in baseball. PGA (2:15): Brooks Koepka won the PGA Championship, but all eyes were on runner-up Tiger Woods. Is Tiger really back? And will Koepka finally get his time in the spotlight? College football (20:25): Has DJ Durkin coached his last game at Maryland? And why are we only hearing about the program’s abusive culture now? Defensive shifts (42:25): Shifts have been around for decades, but their use has skyrocketed in recent years. How effective are they? And do they suppress offense or boost it? Afterballs (58:19): Stefan on a recent Scrabble triumph and Josh on a teenage pole-vaulting prodigy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.7	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:34.0	Hi, this is Josh Levine and and this is Slates Sports Podcast,
0:42.8	hanging up and listen for the week of August 13, 2018.
0:47.2	On this week's show, our colleague Jim Newell
0:49.7	will join us to talk about Tiger Woods's near miss at the PGA Championship and Brooks
0:55.2	Keptka's latest major championship win.
0:58.6	SB Nations Spencer Hall will also be here to discuss allegations of a toxic culture in the
1:04.4	Maryland football program and the particular awfulness of college football
1:09.0	fan bases. Finally, Sam Miller of ESPN will help us examine a baseball conundrum.
1:15.0	The shift, which was supposed to be killing offenses, might actually be helping them.
1:21.0	Joining me in Washington, D.C.
1:23.5	Fresh off his first ever appearance
1:26.1	in Division I at the North American Scrabble Championship.
1:30.0	It is Stephen Fatsus, author of the book Word Freak
1:33.4	and the non-scrabble books as well.
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