Ep 127: WOMEN’S SPORTS! A roundtable, the Jeddah Women’s League, and the IAAF World Championships

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Buckle in this episode for lots of coverage of women’s sports! This week, Lindsay, Shireen, Amira, and Jessica talk about California’s new Fair Play to Pay Act [6:04] before doing a roundtable on women’s sports that includes college volleyball and soccer, flat track roller derby, the WNBA finals, tennis, the NWSL, international friendlies, and even a little bit of hockey. [27:22] Then Shireen interviews Saudi Arabian soccer player Bireen Sadagah about the historic Jeddah Women's League. [41:37] Finally, the gang talks about the IAAF World Championships that took place in Doha, Qatar, and other than the amazing athleticism on display, was quite the disaster. [51:10] Of course, you’ll hear the Burn Pile, [1:02:46] an expansive Bad Ass Woman of the Week, starring Dalilah Muhammed, [1:08:13] and what is good in our worlds. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check our website: http://www.burnitalldownpod.com 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 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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0:54.8	I'm Jessica Luther, freelance journalist and author and author and author of Welcome to Burn It All Down, the feminist sports podcast you need.
0:58.8	I'm Jessica Luther, freelance journalist and author in Austin, Texas.
1:04.8	And on today's show, I'm joined by Shreen Ahmed, a writer, public speaker and sports activist in Toronto,
1:10.7	Amira Rose Davis, an assistant professor of history and African American studies at Penn State University and
1:11.3	Lindsey Gibbs, a freelance sports reporter in Washington, D.C. I want to start at the top of the show
1:16.8	by thanking our patrons. Without your support, we would never be able to make Burn It All Down. And,
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1:28.1	Go to patreon.com slash burn it all down. On today's show, we're going to have a roundtable on
1:33.7	women's sports because there are so many things happening in women's sports right now.
1:38.7	Shireen interviews Saudi Arabian soccer player Barine Sadaga about the historic Jeddah Women's League.
1:44.8	And finally, we will talk about the disaster that has been the IAAF World Championships
1:49.4	and Doha Cutter.
1:50.9	And of course, we'll cap off today's show by burning the things that deserve to be burned,
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