The Sports Comeback and Covering Portland. Plus, Diane K. Shah on Column Writing

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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker assess the professional sports comeback given recent news of players and coaches testing positive for COVID-19 (2:30). They then turn their attention to Portland, where Trump has sent federal troops to enforce “law and order.” They discuss the warlike way Trump is treating the situation and how it’s affecting his campaign. (22:35) Then sportswriter Diane K. Shah joins to talk about her new memoir, which discusses what it was like to write a sports column in the '80s (28:10). Plus: the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week, and David Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline of the Week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Ringer Podcast Network, it's Liz Kelly.
0:04.0	This week we launched a new show on the network called
0:06.3	the Ringer Fantasy Football Show.
0:08.4	Coming from the guys who brought you the
0:09.8	Danisee Football Podcast, Danny Hyffetz, Danny Kelly,
0:12.7	and Craig Coralbeck will guide you through the
0:14.4	fantasy football season, providing analysis on big picture
0:17.7	conversations like weekly matchups, trades, and daily fantasy.
0:21.7	The show will run every Monday and Wednesday throughout the
0:23.7	rest of the summer and will be helping you through the
0:25.6	regular season as well.
0:27.1	So follow and listen to the first episode of the
0:29.4	Ringer Fantasy Football Podcast out now for free on Spotify.
0:37.2	David, it's been a while since I opened the show by saying,
0:41.4	David, now what are we going to talk about?
0:45.3	I missed that. Can we talk about the Dave Portinoi
0:48.7	help Presidente of our school got to interview the
0:52.4	Presidente, President Donald Trump at the White House?
0:55.6	See this is why I didn't want to open the show like this anymore.
1:00.2	Leading me into these booby traps, Dave Portinoi
1:03.8	interviewing Donald Trump, that didn't really happen, did it?
1:07.4	According to his Twitter, it certainly looked like he sat down.
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