Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin talk to Slate contributing writer Alex Kirshner about Bryson DeChambeau’s win—and Rory McIlroy’s heartbreaking loss—at the U.S. Open. Then, Washington Post columnist Jerry Brewer joins Stefan and Joel Anderson to analyze the NBA Finals and discuss his series, “Grievance Games,” which explores “how the promise of sports as a national unifier has buckled under the pressures of grievance and division.”
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Read Alex Kirshner’s work in Slate.
Bryson DeChambeau won the U.S. Open after Rory McIlroy missed two short putts in the final three holes.
In Golf Digest, Shane Ryan chronicled McIlroy’s heartbreaking final round.
Jerry Brewer is a sports columnist for the Washington Post.
Read Brewer’s recent columns on the NBA Finals and on the death of basketball legend Jerry West.
Brewer’s series “Grievance Games” explores how politics and polarization have fractured American sports.
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Podcast production and edit by Kevin Bendis.
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