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In this week’s episode of Slate’s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca talk about the scourge of flopping in the NBA. They also discuss whether a pair of NFL lawsuits will curb Roger Goodell’s power, and San Diego Chargers kicker Nate Kaeding joins the show to discuss his new project, Athletes’ Library, and educating athletes on how to be better media consumers.

Here are links to some of the articles and other items mentioned on the show:

• NBA commissioner David Stern says flopping is not a “legitimate play.”
• Pacers coach Frank Vogel called the Heat “the biggest flopping team in the NBA.”
• Kobe Bryant explains why he doesn’t take charges.
• Red Auerbach hated floppers.
• There’s flopping in hockey, too.
• Shane Battier would support anti-flopping rules, so long as offensive flopping was also targeted.
• Michael McCann on the NFLPA’s collusion lawsuit and Jonathan Vilma’s defamation suit against Roger Goodell.
• The Washington Post’s Mark Maske on the NFL’s short-lived labor peace.
• Sally Jenkins says Goodell “appears a few steps ahead of everyone in the NFL.”
• The NFL plans to make thigh and knee pads mandatory in 2013. (Stefan wrote about players shirking pads back in 2004.)
• Nate Kaeding’s Twitter account for inquisitive athletes, @athleteslibrary.
• Stefan’s 2010 SI.com piece on Kaeding.
• One of Kaeding’s favorite books, Zen in the Art of Archery.
• Kaeding has linked to a story on Junior Seau, a Larry David humor piece on golf, and an excerpt from Scott Raab’s The Whore of Akron.

Hang Up and Listen’s weekly Awa Kenzos:

• Mike’s Awa Kenzo: The proud history of the San Antonio Spurs.
• Stefan’s Awa Kenzo: A controversial ad in which an Argentine field hockey player exercises on the Falkland Islands. (Here’s Mike’s NPR piece on the U.S. men’s field hockey team.)
• Josh’s Awa Kenzo: The amazing comeback story of tennis player Brian Baker.

Podcast production and edit by Mike Vuolo.

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