It is Monday, April 7th, 2025.

Welcome back to Hang Up and Listen, the sports podcast here at Slate.

Back with you once again, I am Alex Kirchner.

I'm a contributing writer for Slate, and they also co-host the college football podcast,

Split Zone Duo.

This week, we are going to talk about the

Connecticut Huskies returning to the mountaintop in women's college basketball. We are going to talk

about a real comeback in a sport that was critical to all of our childhoods, especially in the

video gaming world, that is vertical skateboarding. We've got a great guest to talk about some major

developments in that sport. And we are going to talk once again about a tradition, unlike any other, Rory McElroy's

efforts to finally get the green jacket on his back and the monkey office back at Augustin

National Golf Club.

But it was a big weekend.

There was the men's final four semi-final games in San Antonio at the Alamo Dome. The championship game

between Duke and Houston is too late to make this week's episode of Hang Up and Listen. But Lindsey Gibbs,

you are the publisher of Power Plays and you're a North Carolina Tar Heels fan. I bet you enjoyed

what you saw on Saturday night.

Yes. Listen, the games here in Tampa have not been super compelling, but goodness was that Duke collapse enough to really remind me why I love March Madness so much. I mean, what happened?

I still don't really understand it, but it was fun.

It's not your job in Carolina Blue to ask questions about what happened to Duke in the last few

minutes of that game. It's just your job to enjoy it and enjoy something else we did this weekend.

Ben Lindberg, you are the co-host of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast, and you were quite excited that the Hang Up and Listen editorial calendar resulted in us doing our Alex Ovechkin record breaking segment last week just in time to get under the wire because he breaks Wayne Gretzky's record on Sunday.

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