Ep. 253: The Compelling Chaos of Women's College World Series, the Belmont Stakes and the French Open

Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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In this episode, Brenda Elsey, Amira Rose Davis and Jessica Luther discuss the wonderful chaos of the Women's College World Series, horse racing and the Belmont Stakes and the French Open. But first they share their favorite twitter follows for levity. With so many sports rolling full steam ahead, everyone shares what competitions they have been all in for. Amira discusses Oklahoma's incredibly dominant softball team, the possible outcomes of the semi finals between Oklahoma and UCLA, and Oklahoma State and Texas, and why this year's competition is getting more media coverage. Then, Brenda shares the latest on horse racing drama including the strangeness of Rich Strike not going for the triple crown, the sad death of last year's sensation Medina Spirit and why Bob Baffert is still the most villainous villain. Next, Jessica discusses the thrilling fortnight of the French Open, including Iga Swiatek and Rafael Nadal's incredible French Open singles' victories. They also talk about the conflicted way tennis is showing Ukrainian solidarity and gender disparity in the night match scheduling. Following this conversation, you'll hear a preview of Brenda's interview with LA Times Sports Editor Iliana Limón Romero, the first Latina to head a newspaper of record’s sports’ section. Next, they'll burn the worst of sports this week in the Burn Pile. Then, they will lift up those making sports better, including Torchbearer of the Week, Kat Craig, who won the integrity and Impact Award at last month’s Sports Industry Awards for her role in the evacuation of female Afghan athletes and others as Kabul fell to the Taliban last summer. The wrap up the show with What's Good in their worlds and What We're Watching in sports this week. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/burn-it-all-down/ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to burn it all down. I'm joined today. And I'm going to burn it all down. It's the feminist sports podcast you need. I'm Brenda Elsie, and I'm joined today by my co-host, Amira and Jessica. And we're going to hype all the sports we've been following.
0:23.8	In this case, horse racing, tennis, and softball.
0:29.1	And honestly, we could have picked five more with all that's underway in global sports right now.
0:34.5	But before all that, it's been a very difficult couple of weeks.
0:37.0	Politically news.
0:41.4	Oh, it's tough, tough stuff. On top of it, many of us are dealing with the fact that our children are now out of state control. They're
0:48.9	out of school. It's rough. It's rough stuff. So I find myself between hustling, looking at Twitter more often for
0:58.0	levity than anything else since the attention span doesn't really work. What are you suggesting
1:05.6	that people might follow for a little bit of levity in the world? Amira? Yeah, I'm a sucker for all the content that
1:12.9	the Las Vegas Aces put out, particularly Kelsey Plum, De Erica Hamby's friendship, Sid Colson,
1:19.8	of course, Asia Wilson. All of them are hilarious, but most recently Kelsey took Derek's daughter
1:26.8	Amaya for a play date, apparently. And instead of
1:31.8	like taking her somewhere and playing with her, they rolled up on Derricka, who's supposed to be
1:37.8	like child free with water balloons. And they bombed her with water balloons as she was like eating
1:42.9	brunch. And when she like tweeted about it, a lot of people were like, L-O-L-L-O, but, like, also did that really happen?
1:49.7	And then Kelsey posted the video of them attacking her with water balloons.
1:54.5	And it was hilarious.
1:56.0	And their, like, pretend enemy-frenomie status is always fun to follow on the interwebs.
2:03.4	Oh, I like that.
2:05.4	I like that a lot.
2:07.2	I've been following Kevin Durant.
2:09.2	You love him on Twitter.
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