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The Athletic's David Lombardi, Matt Barrows and former 49ers defensive end Dennis Brown come with a weekly podcast covering the San Francisco 49ers, featuring regular guests and hard-hitting analysis. You can listen to Here's The Catch twice a week at theathletic.com/heresthecatch

Get the award-winning strategies, insight and analysis you need to win your league, every week. From high-stakes secrets to deep dynasty maneuvers, and everything in between, The Athletic Fantasy Baseball Podcast has you covered with the analysis of Derek VanRiper, Nando Di Fino, Michael Beller, Ian Kahn and Al Melchior.

Full Time with Meg Linehan is a weekly soccer podcast expanding The Athletic’s coverage of the U.S. women’s national team, the National Women’s Soccer League, and the larger world of international soccer. Meg tackles the culture, context, and conversations about the sport here in America and beyond, with help from fellow writers and insiders from all corners of the game.

Editors’ Notes: "Something that Jordan and I want to try to do all the time is bring some empathy into sports,” says Haley O’Shaughnessy, cohost of Spinsters, a weekly podcast in which she and cohost Jordan Ligons explore how basketball influences society and vice versa. “It can be very easy to get lost in stats and what's happening on the court. We love those conversations, but we also want to bring feelings into it and human reactions.” In each episode, O'Shaughnessy and Ligons cover everything from the week's headlines to deep dives on issues affecting the NBA and WNBA—whether they look into the real-life implications of when players get traded, the top breakout players of 2021, or the impact of 2001's defensive three-second violation rule change. O'Shaughnessy and Ligons first met while they were working together for the sports and pop culture website The Ringer. When Ligons started in 2018, she was immediately struck by how O'Shaughnessy “always made the stories relatable and was a woman in the sports industry killing it.” O'Shaughnessy, on the other hand, was drawn by Ligons' initiative to write more in-depth stories about the WNBA—noting her ability to “identify things that people aren't talking about that they should be talking about,” she says. The strength and solidity of their friendship shows in their easy banter. But what they appreciate about their rapport, above all else, is how they've been able to connect with newcomers and seasoned fans alike. “We're not making it so high-level that if you don't study a game film or every single minute of a game, you'd have no idea what we're talking about,” Ligons says. “Having people who aren't super basketball fans say, 'When I listen, I feel like I'm a fly on the wall' or 'I'm in the group chat with you guys and I feel like I'm already your friends,' that's the environment that we want to create.”

The Athletic's Raphael Honigstein brings you a weekly roundup of all the biggest stories in the Bundesliga and across German football, as well as exclusive interviews with players and managers.