Ep 108: Women's World Cup Hype (pt. 2), Softball, and Pregnant Athletes

Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2019

⏱️ 85 minutes

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On this week’s show, Shireen, Amira, Lindsay, and Jessica talk about the Raptors [7:11] before previewing groups D, E, F of the Women's World Cup in France. [31:22] Then Amira talks to professional softball player AJ Andrews, former college softball standout at LSU and the first woman to receive the Rawlings Gold Glove award. They chat about softball as a revenue sport, the National Pro Fastpitch’s lack of professional options and the importance of role models of color in the game. [46:38] Then the gang discusses the recent pieces addressing how Nike has failed pregnant athletes and the intersection of reproductive rights and sports. [1:03:18] Of course, you’ll hear the Burn Pile, [1:15:16] our Bad Ass Women of the Week, starring Furdiki Sherpa and Nima Doma Sherpa, [1:18:02] and what is good in our worlds. [1:22:46] 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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0:58.2	I'm Jessica Luther, freelance journalist and author in Austin, Texas.
1:03.4	And on today's show, I'm joined by Lindsay Gibbs, a reporter at Think Progress in Washington, D.C., Amira Rose Davis, an assistant professor of history and women's gender and sexuality studies at Penn State University, and Shereen Ahmed, a writer, public speaker, and sports activist in Toronto.
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1:34.8	On today's show, we're going to round out our breakdown of the groups in the Women's World Cup.
1:38.9	On last week's episode, we talked A, B, and C, so this week we'll be doing D-E-N-F. Then Amira talks to professional softball player AJ Andrews, former college softball standout at LSU,
1:49.4	and the first woman to receive the Rawlings Gold Glove Award.
1:52.4	They chat about softball as a revenue sport, the national pro fast pitches lack of professional options,
1:57.1	and the importance of role models of color in the game.
2:00.0	If you want to hear AJ Andrews break down the NCAA college softball postseason,
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