Hang Up and Listen
By Slate Podcasts
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Announcing Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Gorsuch
How Neil Gorsuch laid the foundation for a SCOTUS supermajority, then became its most unexpected wild card. -

Hanging Up and Listening
In our final episode, we ask familiar voices for their sports predictions for the next seventeen years. -

A March Without Madness
How UCLA and Michigan completed their campaigns of domination. -

The Final Four Countdown
With the men’s and women’s Final Four matchups set, there’s a lot of chalk and a few surprises. -

The WNBA’s New Deal
Quadrupling the average salary? Sign us up! -

America's Wild, Weird World Baseball Classic
Team USA’s exciting, but exhaustively patriotic, path to the finals. -

The Quarterback Bargain Bin
Facing a lackluster 2026 draft, many NFL teams are shopping for “reclamation project” QBs. -

Trump’s Olympic Locker Room Talk
How a phone call from the president became a cultural brush fire. -

American Hockey Story
Both the U.S. women's and men’s hockey teams took gold in the Winter Olympics. -

The War On Tanking
Can Adam Silver and the NBA curb the league’s race to the bottom?