The Final Four Countdown

Hosts Lindsay Gibbs and Ben Lindbergh discuss the maddest moment of March—from the UConn buzzer beater, to Women’s Final Four redux. Alex Kirshner rejoins for two interviews: the first with author and professor Seth Tannenbaum about the growing class divide inside baseball stadiums, the subject of his new book, Bleacher Seats and Luxury Suites: Democracy and Division at the Twentieth-Century Ballpark. The second with Nina Mandell about an Ohio gymnastics dynasty, chronicled in her book: A Fraction of a Point: A Gymnastics Dynasty on the Line.

Finally, Ben closes with an Afterball about the historic and cringey N64 video game Mia Hamm Soccer 64.

In this week’s bonus episode for Slate Plus members: the T-Rex hunting for a draft spot in the NFL.

March Madness: (6:37): Duke’s demise

Bleacher Seats (26:32): The haves and the have-nots

Fraction of a Point (42:42): The gymnastics world beaters

Afterballs (57:49): Mia Hamm Soccer 64

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