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Hi, I'm Josh Levine,

Slaits National Editor, this is Hangup and Listen for the week of August 30th, 2021.

On this week's show, I'm going to talk to Ben Rothenburg about his reporting on domestic abuse allegations

against the tennis player Alexander's Vera.

Grant Wall will then join us to talk about Christina Rinaldo's

move back to the club where he first

became an international star Manchester United.

And we'll discuss E-S-P-N's move to pull Rachel Nichols off all of its NBA coverage,

part of the continuing fallout from a video where Nichols suggested that her then

colleague Maria Taylor was getting opportunities at the network because she's black.

I'm in Washington, D.C. and I'm the author of The Queen and the host of the podcast one year.

Also in DC, Stephen Fatsus, author of the book's Word Freak, a few seconds of panic.

Wild and outside. Hello, Stephan.

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