Ep 155: The Future of College Sports, Vanessa Cordoba on Sexism in Women's Soccer Leagues

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2020

⏱️ 87 minutes

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On this week’s show, Amira, Brenda, Jessica, and Shireen first talk WNBA Draft reactions [1:15]. Then they dive into what college sports might look like after the coronavirus [4:51]. Brenda interviews Colombian national soccer player Vanessa Cordoba about the sexism threatening to end women's professional soccer leagues [25:30]. Finally, they talk about reimagining what sports would look like if they were in charge of rebuilding [46:29]. Of course, you’ll hear the Burn Pile [57:19], the Bad Ass Woman of the Week segment, starring Miranda Elish [1:10:08], and what is good in our worlds [1:13:05]. 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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1:01.8	This week's episode of Burn It All Down is dedicated to Hussein Bayotte, aka Babu Uncle, who died on April 13th of complications from COVID-19.
1:07.4	He was a pillar of the Muslim community in Missiaga, and he will be very greatly missed.
1:13.4	Hi, Flamethrowers, Amira here, and I am running the show this week.
1:18.9	I am joined by my co-host, Brenda Elsie, Associate Professor of History at Hofstra University.
1:24.6	Jessica Luther, author of the forthcoming book, Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back, in Austin, Texas, and freelance extraordinaire sports reporter
1:29.7	Shereen Ahmed from Toronto, Canada.
1:32.3	And today, we're going to discuss what college sports might look like when we come on the other
1:37.0	side of this.
1:38.1	Plus, we will reimagine sports in general and think about what we might want to see different
1:43.9	as we start to rebuild.
1:46.0	Also, Brenda interviews Colombian national soccer player Vanessa Cordova on the struggle to keep
1:51.2	women's professional leagues alive in the face of rampant sexism and in the time of COVID.
2:00.5	But before we get into that, we know the WNBA draft was on Friday.
2:05.9	Me and Lindsay have a hot take on that if you want a larger discussion that is available now.
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