Ep 118: Conrad Mainwaring + Abuse in Track (TW), Sports Mascots and Meg Linehan on the NWSL/USWMNT

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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On this week's show Amira, Brenda, and Lindsay discuss the decades of abuse allegations against former UCLA Track Coach Conrad Mainwaring [3:00]. Shireen interviews women's soccer expert, Meg Linehan who provides updates and insights on the NWSL and USWNT [18:55]. Then the crew indulges Amira's curiosity about sports mascots and talk about the funny, the scary, the offensive and the truly strange ones[39:12]. Of course, you'll hear our Burn Pile [51:30] our BAWOTW [57:35] and tell you what's good in our worlds [59:50] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:55.2	I'm Amirot you up and I spit you out and I'll play with your favorites to the screaming shout. Oh yeah. Welcome to this week's episode of Burn It All Down.
1:01.1	I'm Amir Rose Davis, assistant professor of history and African American studies at Penn State.
1:12.2	And this week, I'm joined by my illustrious co-host, Brenda Elsie, Associate Professor of History at Hofstra University in New York, and Lindsay Gibbs, sports reporter at Think Progress in Washington, D.C. And this week on the show, we're going to be talking about Conrad manwaring
1:18.0	and the mounting cases against him and allegations of abuse mounting against him as a track and field
1:24.8	coach at UCLA as well as before that.
1:28.5	Shereen is also going to chat with soccer expert extraordinaire, Meg Linnehan.
1:33.9	And then also my co-hosts are going to indulge me in my curiosity about sports basketballs.
1:39.4	But before we get in to all that, Lindsay, you are back from Vegas where you were at All-Star.
1:47.0	Am I? Am I really back?
1:50.0	It looked like you had a phenomenal time and you were on hand for what looked to be like
1:55.0	a fairly good All-Star weekend. What was it like?
1:59.0	Yeah, it was incredible. Vegas just did such a good job of
2:02.6	really showing out. I mean, one of my favorite things was the marketing. So we talk a lot about
2:08.4	the show, the marketing of female athletes. And from the second you landed in Vegas,
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