The Why Is She Hanging Around Here? Edition

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin talk about the first week of the U.S. Open. Aaron Schatz of Football Outsiders also joins to preview the NFL season, and Sheba Rawson of the Timbers Army fan group discusses the dispute over political signage in Major League Soccer. U.S. Open (01:16): How Taylor Townsend and Kristie Ahn had the best week of their careers. NFL (22:19): What should we expect from Baker Mayfield’s Cleveland Browns and Kyler Murray’s Arizona Cardinals? Politics and MLS (38:51): Should MLS ban an anti-fascist symbol? Afterballs (55:43): Stefan on Carli Lloyd and kicking Josh on watching tennis from courtside. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.2	Hello, I'm Josh Levine,
0:10.0	Slates National Editor and the author of The Queen.
0:13.0	This is Slate's Sports Podcast tying up and listen
0:15.3	for the week of September 3rd, 2019.
0:18.0	On this week's show, we'll talk about the biggest news
0:20.3	from the first week of the US Open.
0:22.0	Among them, the rise of American tennis
0:24.2	underdogs, Taylor Townsend, and Christie Ann.
0:27.1	Aaron Schatz of football outsiders will also join us to discuss rising expectations
0:32.1	for the Cleveland Browns, dwindling contracts for running backs and
0:36.1	other storylines at the start of the NFL season.
0:38.8	Finally, Sheba Rawson will be here to explain how her fan group Portland's Timbers Army has responded to
0:45.0	Major League soccer's ban on political messaging. Joining me in Slate's Washington
0:50.0	D.C. studio is the author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds of
0:54.0	panic your friend and mine Stephen fats us.
0:56.5	Hi Josh. Hello friend.
0:58.0	How was your weekend? I went to the US Open and we will talk about that in our first segment.
1:03.8	I was offering you a smooth transition into the tennis.
1:06.7	I went there for journalism.
1:08.4	I went to my couch and watched a lot of the US Open.
1:11.4	That seems like good preparation for our segment on the US Open.
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