Hang Up and Listen: The Live in Philadelphia Edition
Slate’s sports podcast on Buzz Bissinger’s After Friday Night Lights, how to fix college athletics, and sports’ most impressive feats.
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In this week’s episode of Slate’s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, Mike Pesca and special guest Buzz Bissinger talk about Bissinger’s new e-book After Friday Night Lights and his memoir Father’s Day. They also discuss the woes facing college athletics and identify the most-impressive feats in sports.
Here are links to some of the articles and other items mentioned on the show:
- Buzz Bissinger’s e-book After Friday Night Lights.
- An excerpt from the original Friday Night Lights about Boobie Miles.
- Big K.R.I.T.’s song “Boobie Miles.”
- Bissinger’s memoir Father’s Day.
- Big East commissioner John Marinatto recently stepped down.
- The latest on conference realignment.
- The Ivy League recently signed a TV deal with the NBC Sports Network and nixed a proposed postseason basketball tournament.
- The BYU men’s soccer team opted out of the NCAA in favor of the USL Premier Development League.
- Josh Hamilton was the 16th major leaguer to hit four home runs in a game.
- There have been 21 MLB perfect games and 15 unassisted triple plays.
- A perfect game in bowling ain’t what it used to be.
- Is scoring a double eagle more impressive than winning the Masters’ green jacket?
- Secretariat’s 31-length victory in the 1973 Belmont.
- There have been four quadruple-doubles in NBA history and two quintuple-doubles in girls’ high school basketball.
- Other impressive sports feats: a nine-dart finish, a maximum 147 break in snooker, a golden set in tennis, six sixes in an over in cricket, and scoring eight in a single end in curling,
Hang Up and Listen’s weekly Mojos:
Mike’s Mojo: A deep analysis of Jimmy Johnson’s commercial for the male-enhancement pill ExtenZe.
Stefan’s Mojo: Penn’s dramatic win over Harvard in 1982. (Here’s video of the game-winning drive.)
Josh’s Mojo: Dick Lane, who hit five home runs in a game in 1948, explains the secret to his one-off success.
Podcast production and edit by Mike Vuolo.
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