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Introducing Hot Takedown, FiveThirtyEight’s First Podcast

I’m thrilled to introduce FiveThirtyEight’s first podcast, our weekly sports show Hot Takedown. A brief preview is available on iTunes now (listen below), and our first full episode will drop Tuesday evening and every Tuesday thereafter. Hot takes are the predominant currency of sports talk these days. Sometimes they are grounded in fact; often they […]

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Introducing Hot Takedown, FiveThirtyEight’s First Podcast

I’m thrilled to introduce FiveThirtyEight’s first podcast, our weekly sports show Hot Takedown. A brief preview is available on iTunes now (listen below), and our first full episode will drop Tuesday evening and every Tuesday thereafter.   Hot takes are the predominant currency of sports talk these days. Sometimes they are grounded in fact; often […]

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Listen To ‘Hot Takedown,’ Our Sports Podcast Pilot

Loyal FiveThirtyEight readers: This week we recorded a trial run of our new sports podcast “Hot Takedown,” and we’re eager for you to take a listen. We’re trying to add a little data perspective to the major storylines — and arguments — of the week. This episode, editor Chadwick Matlin, sportswriter Neil Paine and visual […]

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Listen To ‘Hot Takedown,’ Our Sports Podcast Pilot

Loyal FiveThirtyEight readers: This week we recorded a trial run of our new sports podcast “Hot Takedown,” and we’re eager for you to take a listen. We’re trying to add a little data perspective to the major storylines — and arguments — of the week. This episode, editor Chadwick Matlin, sportswriter Neil Paine and visual […]

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