Hang Up and Listen

Sports Illustrated Is Dead Again

Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin discuss Kansas City’s win over Buffalo in the NFL playoffs. Adam Duerson also joins to talk about the collapse of Sports Illustrated and ESPN’s Myron Medcalf comes on for a conversation about second-generation athletes (and how they make us feel old). 
 
Chiefs-Bills (5:00): How Patrick Mahomes took down Josh Allen again.
 
Sports Illustrated (21:49): Is there a path forward for SI?
 
Second-generation athletes (39:36): Wait, there’s a Jameer Nelson Jr. now?
 
Afterball (1:02:11): The time Buddy Ryan ran up the score on the Cowboys.
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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.