Welcome to burn it all down, and I'm joined you out, and I'll play with your babies to the screaming show, oh yeah.

Welcome to Burn It All Down, the feminist sports podcast you need.

I'm Jessica, and I'm joined today by Amira and Lindsay.

On this week's show, we're going to talk about March Madness, the women's side of it, at least.

Then we'll burn things that deserve to be burned, highlight the torch bears who are lighting the way,

let you know what's good in our worlds, and tell you what we're watching this week in sports.

But first, we want to briefly talk about Brittany Greiner, the WMBA superstar who plays for the Phoenix Mercury. She's been detained by Russian officials since

February 17th after she allegedly went through customs with hashish oil and her luggage.

We don't know that much at this point because, it seems, her family and her people don't want

us to, but it all feels incredibly precarious and scary, and we're all very worried for her. So what have you all been

thinking about this? Like what are you reading or listening to or whatever in order to

follow this? Lindsay? Yeah, I just think it's so important like the initial reaction. I'm about

to publish kind of a power plays about this,

but just kind of how this is the type of thing where we want to do our typical response

to any sort of injustice in women's sports and just scream about it and demand accountability

and yell at those in power and rally the troops. But I think it's so important to take

the cues from her team and from

her agent and from those who have some sort of an idea about what's going on behind the scenes.

And, you know, there's a piece of the Washington Post about why there are high profile

people working on this is high profile, but they're trying to keep it low-key.

And we'll link that in the show notes because that was really helpful to me,

as well as Michelle Vopal, and T.J. Quinn did a great basic by-the-facts breakdown of the whole

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