Will the NFL Move to a 17-Game Season?

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin talk about the push for a 17-game NFL season and John Beilein’s short, tumultuous tenure with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Joseph Bien-Kahn also joins to discuss ultrarunner Jim Walmsley’s quest to qualify for the Olympic marathon. NFL (01:42): The pros and cons of a longer professional football season. Beilein (17:31): He was a great college basketball coach. How did it go so wrong in the NBA? Ultramarathon (33:30): Can the world’s best super-long-distance runner hang with the best for 26.2 miles? Afterballs (51:26): Stefan on Little Leagues and major-league nicknames and Josh on segregation at the Sugar Bowl. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast includes explicit language not restricted to words beginning with F, Slates National Editor and the author of The Queen.
0:18.0	This is Hang Up and Listen for the week of February 24th, 2020.
0:22.0	On this week's show, we're going to discuss the big
0:24.7	upcoming conflict between the NFL's owners and players over whether the league
0:29.2	will expand to a 17- game regular season.
0:32.8	We'll also talk about the ouster of Cleveland Cavaliers coach John B. Line,
0:37.4	whether there's something to the idea that task masterish,
0:41.1	college coaches do not work in the pros.
0:43.4	Finally, Joseph Bean Khan will join us
0:46.0	to tell the story of Jim Walmsley,
0:47.8	the ultra-marathoning legend,
0:49.7	who's now trying to qualify for the U.S. Olympic team
0:52.1	as a regular old marathoner. Joining me in our
0:56.1	DC studio Stephen Fatsus, other of the book's Word Freak, and a few seconds of panic ticks
1:00.9	off marathons on a daily basis.
1:03.0	Oh, not just one. I mean, I'm more of an ultra guy.
1:06.0	Really?
1:07.0	Yeah, I like to go 50, 75 miles.
1:09.0	100 on Saturdays.
1:10.0	That's your long day.
1:12.0	Joining us from Palo Alto,
1:13.2	Slade Staff writer, and the host of SloBurn season 3.
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