Joel Anderson and Stefan Fatsis are joined by USA Today’s Lindsay Schnell to talk about the NCAA women’s college basketball tournament and by Buzzer’s Eamonn Brennan to discuss the men’s tournament. Finally, the Washington Post’s Kent Babb joins for a conversation about his profile of Kim Mulkey.
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• Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Thomas, hosted by Joel, won the Ambies award for Podcast of the Year.
• Watch the finals of the 2024 North American School Scrabble Championship.
• Lindsay Schnell is a national correspondent for USA Today. Read her stories on North Carolina State’s upset of Texas in the Elite Eight of the women’s NCAA basketball tournament and USC star freshman JuJu Watkins.
• South Carolina advanced to its fourth consecutive Final Four; LSU coach Kim Mulkey and point guard Hailey Van Lith criticized a Los Angeles Times column as racist and sexist; and LSU forward Angel Reese said she and Iowa star Caitlin Clark “don’t hate each other.”
• One of the 3-point lines at the NCAA women’s regional in Portland, Ore., was shorter than the other.
• Subscribe to Eamon Brennan’s college basketball newsletter, Buzzer.
• North Carolina State’s men’s team beat Duke to advance to the Final Four for the first time since its iconic championship in 1983.
• N.C. State’s DJ Burns Jr. turned around his season after being placed on a diet and conditioning plan.
• Purdue’s Zach Edey scored 40 points to lead the Boilermakers to their first Final Four since 1980, while Alabama reached its first one ever. And UConn looks unstoppable.
• Read Washington Post sports features writer Kent Babb’s profile, “The Kim Mulkey Way.”
• Mulkey attacked the story before it was published and, after it was published, said she hadn’t read it.
• In 2022, Babb wrote about new LSU football coach Brian Kelly.
Hang Up and Listen’s weekly Stomper the Maverick:
Stefan’s Stomper the Maverick: Lisa Lane was a chess pioneer who appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated in 1961 and quit the game in disgust a few years later. Read’s Stefan’s obituary of Lane in Slate.
Podcast production and edit by Kevin Bendis.
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