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.”
U.S. Open (2:56): What went wrong for Rory McIlroy.
NBA Finals (22:19): Checking in on the Celtics and Mavericks.
Grievance Games (39:17): How sports have “buckled under the pressures of grievance and division.”
Afterball (56:29): Stefan on the 20th anniversary of Greece’s remarkable 2004 European soccer championship.
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