Ep 101: The CWHL vs. the AAF, Liz Knox of the CWHL on the CWHL, and abusive female coaches

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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On this week’s show, Amira, Shireen, and Jessica start by talking about Kelly Cates literally being left behind by her colleagues Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville. [4:56] Then they turn to the shocking shut down of the Canadian Women’s Hockey League, first comparing it to the short-lived and also now-defunct Alliance of American Football [17:30] before Shireen interviews Markham Thunder goalie and CWHL Players Association co-chair Liz Knox about the league folding, the reactions, and what's next. [36:50] Finally, the gang discuss abusive female coaches and how gender affects how we talk about them. [49:49] Of course, you’ll hear the Burn Pile, [59:07] our Bad Ass Woman of the Week, starring the Calgary Inferno, [1:02:16] and what is good in our worlds. [1:09:51] To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/burn-it-all-down For more info check our website: http://www.burnitalldownpod.com Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:03.9	Welcome to Burn It All Down. Welcome to Burn It All Down. It may not be the feminist sports podcast you want, but it's definitely the feminist sports podcast you need.
1:10.4	I'm Amira Rose Davis, Assistant Professor of History and Women's Gender and and sexuality studies at Penn State.
1:16.6	And I am joined today by two of my awesome co-hosts, Jess Luther, freelance journalist and author in Austin, Texas, and Shereen Ahmed, journalist in Toronto, Canada.
1:23.3	We have a great show for you today. First, we're going to talk about what happens when
1:27.2	leagues fail,
1:28.4	looking at the CWHL as well as the AAS. Plus, Shereen sits down with Canadian Women's Hockey
1:34.4	League player Liz Knox to get an up-close and intimate take on what's going on in the wake of
1:41.4	the CWHL announcement that it's ending.
1:47.0	Lastly, we're going to talk about coaching yet again.
1:52.3	This time we're looking specifically at recent allegations of abuse at the hands of women coaching and asking what's different or perhaps the same when women coaches are the ones with power.
1:58.8	Before we get into all of that, I don't know, have you guys seen this
2:02.4	video? So there's this video of side sports and they're, you know, doing live coverage
2:11.0	before Southampton and Liverpool game. And so Kelly Cates is talking and is asking a question about the match.
2:20.7	And she poses a great question to her co-hosts, Gary Neville and Jamie Crocker.
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