The Sorting Out the Winners From the Losers Edition

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin talk about the basketball recruiting scandal at LSU. The New York Times’ Joe Drape also joins to discuss the deaths of 21 horses at Santa Anita Park. Finally, the Ringer’s Bryan Curtis assesses the sportswriter Dan Jenkins, who died last week at age 90. LSU (1:48): Should webe outraged about what we heard basketball coach Will Wade say on an FBI wiretap? Is Wade a villain or a victim? Horse racing (21:53): Why have so many horses died at Santa Anita in such a short period of time? What can be done to stop the epidemic? Dan Jenkins (38:14): What made the sportswriting legend a sportswriting legend. Afterballs (58:30): Stefan on Marxist sportswriter Mike Jay and Josh on the NCAA’s NET rating system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast
0:02.0	podcast contains explicit language.
0:04.0	Hi, this is Josh Levine and this is
0:11.0	Slate's sports podcast hang up and listen for the week of March 11th, 2019.
0:16.3	On this week show we'll talk about the scandal in the LSU basketball program, which
0:20.3	involves FBI wiretaps and is threatening my enjoyment of a very good season.
0:25.4	The New York Times is Joe Drape will come on the show to talk about the deaths of 21 horses
0:30.3	in just two months at California's Santa Anita Park and the ringers Brian Curtis
0:35.0	will also be here to discuss Dan Jenkins the legendary sports writer who died
0:39.8	last week at age 90. Here with me in our Washington DC studio is my co-host
0:45.3	Stephen Fatsus, the author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds of panic. Hello
0:50.0	Stephan. Hey Josh. I'm here too.
0:54.0	I'm just trying to get some banter going.
0:56.0	Big weekend.
0:57.0	Yeah.
0:58.0	It was a big weekend.
0:59.0	Penn Beat Brown.
1:00.0	Is that what you're going to allude to?
1:03.4	You were really crushed by that loss.
1:06.1	So Brown basketball is a thing that I don't care about.
1:10.3	I would have cared about it if they would have beaten Penn.
1:13.8	Right, so this was basically a play-in game to the Ivy League tournament?
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