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The Mets & Bucks s(t)ink while Ali Simpson rises

The Shwinerview: Talking Man United w/Shwinnypooh

The KD trade, the Club World Cup grotesquerie & why drug-testing is harder than you think

The NBA Finals & all things NY sports with The Ringer's Katie Baker

NBA playoff talk with Howard Beck

How does time shape us as fans and sports media?

An unfairly maligned coach, a scapegoated player & chess + jeans + anal beads

Medicare taxes, loser taxes, Paige Bueckers & the legacy of Béla Károlyi

Howard Beck talks NBA, plus what Bach/Mozart/Beethoven teach us about MJ/Kobe/LeBron

WNBA Players Speak Up, Yankees Talk & The Disappearing Black MLBer

Trans-Pacific union actions, Caitlin Clark balling & Chelsea bursting

Olympic highlights & lowlights, Dearica Hamby sues the WNBA & when gay hatred meets gay history

Transitioning from the on-season to the offseason: Sacramento hoops with Jrue

A weekend of sports + WNBA w/Alford Corriette

Corporate vs. subscriber-based sportswriting & Knicks vs. Pacers with Caitlin Cooper

The Suns are Jonestown, "You can die in any sport" & the end of two eras

The NBA's 3-Body Problem, plus basketball & new media with Kris Pursiainen

100th Episode Bonanza

The Wayne Gretzky Appreciation Half-Hour

Chris Herring talks Usher, a little NBA & Jim Harbaugh at Michigan

Money Isn't Everything

Crina Mustafa on tennis & all its WTFery, plus the public & private spheres collide in the NBA

Golden State lets us down, Ohtani's underpaid & talking Celtics with Noa Dalzell

The Ghosts of Sports Past, Future & Present

The Thanksgiving Episode: Traditions, good and bad

The WNBA Finals with The Athletic's Lyndsey D'Arcangelo

The Titanic episode: tips & icebergs

Transitioning from the season to the off-season

Should we abolish pro sports?

A Midsummer Pod's Dream

Hello, summer. Goodbye, MLB

The dangerous noise & deadly silence around Black women's bodies

Bonus episode -- like Douglas MacCarthur, Jonah Birch returns!

Transphobia, Title IX & tackling women's tackle football w/Frankie de la Cretaz

Hoops, humans & how we feel about them with Katie Heindl

The life & times of an elite athlete w/Christina Sarokon

The Law & Sports w/Daniel Wallach

The ABCs of the NBA's CBA w/Mike Vorkunov

"Gamblers & venture capitalists & regular capitalists, oh my!"

The WBC: Baseball at its best w/Brian Menéndez

Foaming Tories, Fandom & Former Glories w/Mike Idland

The I Don't Know Episode

A Trip Around the NBA with Ian Levy

The NFL divisional playoffs & WNBA free agency with Lyndsey D'Arcangelo

Welcome, 2023. Welcome to this fresh sports hell.

World Cup rooting rationales & the strange case of LeBron James, the pseudo Elon Musk

The Rich Getting Worser & Reasons for Hope

A Birch Grows in Brooklyn

Of Sporting Kings & Knights with Louisa Thomas

Howard Beck talks Boston Celtics, Robert Sarver and more NBA

Robert Sarver & Hockey Canada deserve the guillotine, plus listener emails

The queen is dead! Long dead the queen!

Serena Williams is the G.O.A.T. Other people suck.

Remembering Bill Russell & Vin Scully, wishing to forget Pete Rose & more

If a press conference is held but no one's there to cover it, does it make a sound?

Jonathan Macri & the true lives of sports media folk

NBA free agency, which world governments should use cannabis & more

Is it just to punch a corporate bro in the face?

Slap 2.0

Man City champions again; Celtics/Heat; when "Jackie" is a racial slur

NBA Conference Finals, booing the queen & the magic of baseball

Sports & Senator Pat Geary

A Pod Divided Against Itself

April Is the Cruelest Month

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad (Sports) World

As the Sports World Turns

Nostalgia

Money & Sports: The Cost of Raising a Prodigy

Out With the Old, in With the New

Tom Brady: Working-Class Hero?

Economics, NFL Conference Championships, and NBA News

Confronting Racism & Police Brutality w/ Etan Thomas

Season Finale

Love in the Time of Media

Liberals, the Las Vegas Raiders, the NBA, and More

The Callous, the Criminal, and the Kings

2021-22 NBA Season Preview

The Three Faces of WTF

A Conspiracy Grows in Brooklyn w/ Haley O'Shaughnessy

Kinks, the Blitz, and Flowers for Jason

September Smorgasbord

New York Stories, L.A. Story w/ Will Kuntz

Kvetch and Shoot

Baseball: Balance, Brilliance, and Brian Menéndez

Athletes, Mental Health, and Self-Advocacy w/ Johanna Mellis

NBA Free Agency Extravaganza

Worker-Owned Sports Media, NBA Draft, Simone Biles, and More

Bucks Even the Finals, Italy Wins the Euros, and ESPN Ugliness

Emergency Room Playoffs, NBA Coaching Hires, and Euro Surprises

Women's Sports and Capitalism w/ Natalie Weiner

NBA Playoffs, Sports Media, Labor, and the History of Beeves w/ Seth Rosenthal

Emergency Pod: The Knicks Lose and Danny Ainge Steps Down

Keeping It Real: Kyrie Irving in Boston, Out-of-Control Fans, Naomi Osaka, and More

Louisa Thomas on Women's Soccer, Sports Media, and NBA Playoffs

NBA Play-Ins, Playoffs, and Tony LaRussa Bringing Backwards Back

Chris Herring on the NBA Playoffs and the '90s Knicks

The Athletic's Kavitha Davidson, Plus a Super League Postmortem

Champions League Semifinalists w/ Sean Jacobs

The Cardinal, Caitlin Clark, and COVID in Sports

NBA Trade Deadline Special