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Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by The Football Girl’s Melissa Jacobs to discuss the NFL playoffs. They also talk about the state of black coaches in the NFL and Racquet’s Caitlin Thompson helps assess the career of the (possibly) retiring Andy Murray. NFL playoffs (1:16): What we saw in the divisional round—Pats! Chiefs! Rams! Saints!—and what to expect in the conference championship games. Black NFL coaches (23:18): There were recently 7 black head coaches in the NFL. Now there are 2. What happened, and what should be done to increase minority representation on the sidelines? Andy Murray (36:27): Is the fourth member of men’s tennis’ Big Four really done with the sport? And why does everyone love the three-time major champion? Afterballs (53:51): Stefan on Penn basketball player Matt White and Josh on odd football tiebreakers. This episode is brought to you by Capterra. Try it today, for free, at Capterra.com/HANGUP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language. Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's Sports Podcast, hang up and
0:17.1	listen for the week of January 14th, 2019. On this week show, Melissa
0:22.2	Jacobs, aka The Football Girl, will join us to talk about
0:26.2	the NFL's divisional playoffs. We'll also discuss the league's sudden dearth of black coaches
0:32.4	with the total going from seven at the start of the 2018
0:35.3	season down to the current number of two.
0:38.8	And finally, Caitlin Thompson of Racket magazine will be here to talk about Andy Murray who's talking about
0:44.3	retiring from tennis due to a painful hip injury. Joining me in our
0:48.3	Washington DC studio, Stephen Fatsis, the author of the book's Word Freak and
0:52.3	a few seconds of panic.
0:54.3	Hello, Stephen.
0:55.5	Hello Josh, Andy.
0:58.6	I have to bid farewell to Andy.
1:00.8	That's one of my favorite things
1:02.3	about tennis tournaments is hearing British
1:05.4	Franz scream, Andy.
1:07.4	Hopefully there'll be another British player named Andy to help fill the gap.
1:12.4	It doesn't have to be over. Andy!
1:16.3	Hi, this is Dahlia Lithwick, host of Slate's legal podcast Amagus.
1:20.8	If you're listening to this show, you might be interested in Amicus. If you're listening to this show you might be interested in Amicus's
1:24.9	live show that we're hosting in Washington DC on Tuesday, May the 14th. My
1:30.9	colleague Mark Joseph Stern and I will be talking to some amazing guests, including
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