What Happened to Christian Eriksen

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin discuss Danish soccer player Christian Eriksen’s collapse at the UEFA European Championship. Stephanie Apstein of Sports Illustrated also joins to talk about baseball pitchers slathering the ball with goo. Finally, Stefan and Josh interview Jon Wertheim about Glory Days, his new book on sports in 1984. Eriksen (2:14): The agony of waiting to see if the soccer star was OK. Sticky stuff (22:28): What will baseball’s powers that be do about the game’s latest scandal? 1984 (43:58): How Michael Jordan, Lakers vs. Celtics, Martina Navratilova, and more changed the sports landscape forever. Afterball (60:25): Stefan, Josh, and Jon Wertheim on the French Open. Podcast production by Margaret Kelley. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.5	Hi, I'm Josh Levine, slate's national Editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of June 14, 2021.
0:47.0	On this week show, we'll discuss Danish soccer player Christian Ericsson's collapse at the European Championships and the agony of waiting to see if he was okay.
0:56.9	Stephanie Epstein of Sports Illustrated will also be here to discuss baseball pitchers slathering balls with do and what the game should do about this sticky
1:06.0	scandal. And John Warthheim will join us to talk about his new book, Glory Days on Sports in
1:11.6	1984, and we might get him to talk a little bit of tennis as well.
1:16.4	I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm the author of the Queen, the host of Slowburn season 4 on David Duke.
1:22.2	Also in D.C., Stephen Fatsus, author of the book in with us from Palo Alto, Slate Staff Writer,
1:33.6	Host of Slowburn season 3, the upcoming Slowburn at season 6.
1:38.1	Joel Anderson.
1:39.8	Hello Joel.
1:40.8	Hey, what's up?
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