The Sun Also Rises on Waiters Island Edition

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Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and guest Wosny Lambre talk about the layoffs at ESPN. They also discuss how NFL teams evaluate draftees with "red flags" and review Dion Waiters’ genius essay for the Players’ Tribune. ESPN layoffs (2:31): What do the massive cuts at the Worldwide Leader say about the network’s new business model and the state of sports journalism? NFL draft (16:30): This year’s draft class had a host of players, among them Joe Mixon and Gareon Conley, with so-called “character issues.” How should teams look at prospects who've been convicted of or accused of heinous crimes? Dion Waiters (29:25): Why the Miami Heat shooting guard's essay “The NBA is Lucky I’m Home Doing Damn Articles” is such an effective piece of writing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.8	Hi, this is Dahlia Lithwick, host of Slates Legal Podcast, Amagus. If you are listening to this show, you might be interested in Amicus's live show that we're hosting in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, May the 14th.
0:45.0	My colleague, Mark Joseph Stern, and I will be talking to some amazing guests,
0:50.0	including Cheryline Eiffel and a sitting state Supreme Court justice.
0:54.5	All about how originalism, a relatively recently invented way of interpreting the Constitution,
1:00.9	has taken over the Supreme Court and radically reshaped the law. It's been
1:05.7	doctrinal rocket fuel for the conservative legal movement and facilitated the
1:10.3	rolling back of abortion rights, the expansion of gun rights, and the obliteration of the separation of church and state. And as another wildly consequential Supreme Court term, careers to its end, the Court's originalists are on a tear.
1:26.5	But there's something you can do about it and we hope you'll join us in DC on May 14th
1:31.7	to explore the possible pathways out of the current situation.
1:36.2	Go to slate.com slash Amicus Live for tickets. The following podcast contains explicit language. Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's Sports Podcast, hang up and listen for the week of May 1st, 2017.
2:02.0	On this week show, we're going to talk about the layoffs at ESPN and what
2:05.6	they portend about the future of the worldwide leader and of sports media.
2:09.8	We'll also discuss the NFL draft and all the players with so-called red flags and so-called
2:15.4	character issues that did and did not get selected. And finally, we'll do a public
2:21.4	performance and critical analysis of Dionne Waders' recent story
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