Deion Sanders Did It

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09/05/23 • 78 min

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Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin discuss the Colorado football team’s season-opening win over TCU. They also talk about how Maryland football coach Mike Locksley is dealing with his son’s posthumous CTE diagnosis. Finally, ESPN’s Elizabeth Merrill joins to explain how the Nebraska women’s volleyball team drew 92,000 fans.

Colorado (4:04): Deion Sanders got the win he needed to sell his vision and himself.

Locksley (28:26): A profound loss and a reckoning with football’s costs.

Nebraska volleyball (45:07): This is what it looks like to invest in women’s sports.

Afterball (1:06:42): Josh on the Cannon Street All-Stars.

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Colorado (4:04): Deion Sanders got the win he needed to sell his vision and himself.

Locksley (28:26): A profound loss and a reckoning with football’s costs.

Nebraska volleyball (45:07): This is what it looks like to invest in women’s sports.

Afterball (1:06:42): Josh on the Cannon Street All-Stars.

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One Year: 1955 - The Team Nobody Would Play

The Cannon Street All-Stars dreamed of playing in the 1955 Little League World Series. Their biggest obstacle didn’t come on the field. In the year that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a public bus, these Black 12-year-olds became unlikely civil rights pioneers—and faced the wrath of a white society that wasn’t ready to change.

Josh Levin is One Year’s editorial director. One Year’s senior producer is Evan Chung.

This episode was produced by Kelly Jones and Evan Chung, with additional production by Sophie Summergrad.

It was edited by Joel Meyer and Derek John, Slate’s executive producer of narrative podcasts.

Merritt Jacob is our senior technical director.

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Coco Wins the Big One

Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin talk about Coco Gauff’s big breakthrough at the U.S. Open. They also discuss Texas’ win over Alabama, and whether the Longhorns are back, baby. Finally, the Washington Post’s Ben Golliver joins to assess Team USA’s non-medal-winning performance at the FIBA Basketball World Cup.

Coco Gauff (2:48): Why her first grand slam victory felt so monumental.

Texas-Alabama (26:50): Are the Longhorns rising up or is the Crimson Tide on the way down?

FIBA World Cup (44:49): Why did Team USA flop again? Does it matter?

Afterballs (01:13:15): Joel on Willie Jeffries and Stefan on how Billie Jean King and a deodorant manufacturer secured equal pay for women at the U.S. Open in 1973.

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