Hang Up and Listen

Wembanyama Mania

Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin talk about the Warriors’ Draymond Green punching his teammate Jordan Poole. They also discuss 7-foot-4 basketball phenom Victor Wembanyama. Finally, the Athletic’s Steph Yang joins for a conversation about Sally Yates’ report on abuse in the National Women’s Soccer League.
 
Warriors (4:59): How should the team handle Draymond’s punch? Is he done in Golden State?
 
Wembanyama (28:24): Can the 18-year-old Frenchman possibly live up to all this hype?
 
Soccer abuse (49:09): What we learned from the report and what comes next.
 
Afterball (1:12:20): Stefan revisits cheating in chess and Scrabble. 
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A weekly sports discussion from Slate. Hang Up and Listen features Slate sports editor Josh Levin, writer Stefan Fatsis (author of A Few Seconds of Panic), Slate writer and Slow Burn host Joel Anderson, and a selection of interesting guests from around the sports world.