The Sports Edition

Slate Money

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Investing, Business

4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2015

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of Slate Money, we respond to listener suggestions for an all-sports edition. Host Felix Salmon chats with special guest Mina Kimes of ESPN The Magazine and co-hosts Cathy O'Neil of mathbabe.org and Jordan Weissmann of Slate about the prospect of paying college athletes, the economics of stadiums, and what NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell does to earn such a big salary. And everyone explains to Felix who is playing in the Superbowl this Sunday. This episode was sponsored by Go To Meeting. Try it free for 30 days at GoToMeeting.com and click the “Try It Free” button. Complete Slate's podcast listener survey! Tell us about yourself and your favorite podcasts so Slate can serve you better. We'd appreciate two minutes of your time. Go to slate.com/survey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:19.6	Hello and welcome to the sports edition of Slate Money. It is finally here. We
0:26.6	promised that it was going to come and we have made it. We have brought the ball
0:31.3	over the finish line or some sports metaphor I'm
0:34.9	Felix salmon of fusion I'm joined as always by Kathy O'Neill the data scientist and
0:40.6	blogger at mathbabe.org hi Felix and slate scientist and And most importantly, Mina Kimes, who is an amazing writer and do it of amazing
0:59.6	things at ESPN, the magazine. It has a definite article in its title. Why is it called
1:06.3	E. S. N. The magazine and not the E. S. B. M. M. M.
1:10.3	What? The E. P. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. It would be sort of like What the E-S-PN magazine sounds really stupid?
1:14.0	It would be sort of like saying the, it's like saying the Ohio State University.
1:17.5	Everyone kind of chuckles whenever they hear that.
1:19.5	Yeah, exactly.
1:20.0	Okay, well, so welcome, Mina. Thank you. You are you are here as a resident sports expert.
1:27.4	You know everything about sports. I am here as our resident sports, Ignoramus. I know absolutely nothing about sports.
1:35.1	And so I am not going to even pretend to introduce any of these topics.
1:40.1	All of you wonderful listeners, we mentioned en passon as a proper of absolutely nothing that we thought that maybe we should do a sports episode and we got so much mail.
1:51.0	We got tons of mail and suggestions and great emails about things to talk about
1:56.1	and we're going to ignore everything.
1:57.9	Scratch the surface.
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