The Rats Fighting in a Sewer Edition

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Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2017

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by the Wall Street Journal’s Jason Gay to discuss Floyd Mayweather’s win over Conor McGregor, by Ken Rosenthal to talk about the Athletic, and by Robert Lipsyte to assess Clay Travis and ESPN’s supposed liberalism. Mayweather-McGregor (1:30): Jason Gay, who watched the fight while high, explains why fans weren’t unhappy with the experience, and looks at what’s next for the two very rich fighters. The Athletic (16:09): Longtime sportswriter and baseball sideline reporter Ken Rosenthal explains why he signed on with the sports media start-up and why he believes its business model makes sense. Clay Travis and ESPN (32:54): Former ESPN ombudsman Robert Lipsyte discusses accusations that the Worldwide Leader of Sports is a liberal bastion and the marketing genius of Clay Travis, who has brought the culture wars to sports. Afterballs (52:24): Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.8	Hi, this is Dahlia Lithwick, host of Slates Legal Podcast, Amagus. If you are listening to this show, you might be interested in Amicus's live show that we're hosting in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, May the 14th.
0:45.0	My colleague, Mark Joseph Stern, and I will be talking to some amazing guests,
0:50.0	including Cheryline Eiffel and a sitting state Supreme Court justice.
0:54.5	All about how originalism, a relatively recently invented way of interpreting the Constitution,
1:00.9	has taken over the Supreme Court and radically reshaped the law. It's been
1:05.7	doctrinal rocket fuel for the conservative legal movement and facilitated the
1:10.3	rolling back of abortion rights, the expansion of gun rights, and the obliteration of the separation of church and state. And as another wildly consequential Supreme Court term, careers to its end, the Court's originalists are on a tear.
1:26.5	But there's something you can do about it and we hope you'll join us in DC on May 14th
1:31.7	to explore the possible pathways out of the current situation.
1:36.2	Go to slate.com slash Amicus Live for tickets. The following podcast contains explicit language. Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's Sports Podcast hang up and
1:58.4	listen for the week of August 28th, 2017. On this week show, Jason Gay of the Wall Street Journal will join us to talk about
2:05.8	watching the Mayweather McGregor Fight Wall High, and I will join us to talk about watching the
2:11.1	fight on an illegal in-ar arena stream in which a guy in the
2:15.0	crowd shouted, There it is every time Mayweather landed a punch. We'll also speak with Fox Sports
2:21.1	Baseball reporter Ken Rosenthal
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