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Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's Sports Podcast, Hang Up and Listen, for the week of August 27th, 2018.

On this week show, we'll be joined by journalist Jessica Luther to discuss Ohio State's decision to

suspend but not fire its football coach Urban Meyer for three games for his

failure to do much of anything about domestic abuse allegations against an assistant coach.

John Branch of the New York Times will also come on the show to talk about the subculture of

speed cubing, his son's fascination with the Rubik's Cube,

and the autistic teenager who can twirl the cube

faster than anyone in the world.

And we're going to close things out

by playing two of our favorite bonus segments

from this year, a conversation about the perils of co-ed

sports teams, and another about the Chinese nicknames of NBA players.

Joining me in Washington, D.C. is Stephan Fatis, author of the book's Word Freak in a few seconds

of panic, a man who is enthralled by preseason football on Thursday night.

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