When Will Sports Be Back on TV?

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin are joined by the Athletic’s Joe Vardon to talk about the push to get games back on television. They also discuss the HBO documentary The Scheme, and Josh interviews tennis player Kristie Ahn about what an athlete does when she can’t leave her house. Sports on TV (03:16): TV networks have paid billions to televise sports. What’s going to happen to all that money? And will those dollar signs push leagues to get games on TV as soon as possible? The Scheme (18:24): Is the HBO documentary on corruption in college basketball worth watching? And what should we think of its protagonist, Christian Dawkins? Kristie Ahn (39:37): What’s life like for a pro tennis player who can’t be on the court? Afterball (01:02:13): Stefan on the spitball and the Spanish flu pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:02.2	People who are listening for the first time might hear a bad word or two.
0:06.1	Hi, I'm Josh Levine, slates National Editor, and the author of The Queen.
0:15.7	This is Hangup and Listen for the week of March 30, 2020.
0:19.4	On this week show, Joe Varden of The Athletic, we'll be here to talk about when sports will be back on TV and the financial
0:25.6	pressures behind ensuring that happens as soon as possible.
0:29.2	We'll also discuss the scheme, the. documentary about a middleman who paid
0:34.3	college basketball recruits and assessed the fallout of a movie that touches on
0:38.8	hydrinks at Arizona, LSU, and a bunch of other schools.
0:43.0	Finally, I'll interview tennis player Christy on
0:46.6	about the life of a pro athlete who's off the tour
0:49.6	and her relationship with their parents
0:51.4	who've encouraged her to leave the sport and get a corporate job.
0:55.2	I am coming to you again from my house in Washington, D.C.
0:58.8	We are holding up okay here, though I am told we do need to vacuum so I'll get on that
1:03.9	joining me from a couple miles away is Stephen Fatsis. He's the author of the book's
1:08.6	Word Freak and a few seconds of panic. How are you doing over there
1:12.4	Stephen? I vacuumed the first floor
1:14.4	yesterday. Second floor awaits. I guess there is probably a divide in America among people
1:20.4	whose quarantine abode
1:23.4	becomes cleaner or becomes filthier.
1:25.8	I definitely know which one Joel is.
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