Ep 79: The WNBA players opt out of their CBA, the NFL Players Coalition, and fight doctor Linda Dahl

Burn It All Down

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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On this week’s show, all 5 co-hosts are back together again. After celebrating the reception Red Sox manager Alex Cora received in Puerto Rico (5:31), Amira, Brenda, Shireen, Lindsay, and Jessica talk about the WNBA players deciding to opt out of their collective bargaining agreement with the league (19:32). Then the gang discusses the NFL Players Coalition, Eric Reid, Malcolm Jenkins, and the messiness of organizing (31:22). And Shireen interviews Dr. Linda Dahl, one of the few women to serve as a ringside doctor for the New York Athletic Commission, about her punchy new book "Tooth and Nail: The Making of a Female Fight Doctor" (45:23). Of course, you’ll hear the Burn Pile (59:05), our Bad Ass Woman of the Week, starring Alexa Moreno (1:02:07), and what is good in our worlds (1:07:55). 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 For more info check our website: http://www.burnitalldownpod.com 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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0:38.9	Coors Brewing Company, Golden Colorado. Welcome to Burn It All Down.
0:57.8	It may not be the feminist sports podcast you want, but it's definitely the feminist sports podcast you need.
1:03.3	I'm Amira Rose Davis, Assistant Professor of History in Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies at Penn State University.
1:09.7	And I'm super excited to be back
1:11.8	on the podcast today and with the whole crew. Sports writers, Jessica Luther, Shereen Ahmed, and
1:18.7	Lindsay Gibbs, and my fellow historian, Brenda Elsie. Thanks for joining us today. So today, we're going to
1:25.2	talk about the WNBA and they're opting out of their CBA.
1:29.1	We're also going to dive into the Players Coalition Beef as kind of exemplified between
1:34.7	recent exchanges of words between Eric Reed and Malcolm Jenkins and kind of parse out what's
1:40.1	going on here. And Shereen also had a great interview with Dr. Linda Dahl, the first and only fight
1:45.5	doctor for the New York State Athletic Commission.
1:48.5	And she talks about her new book, Tooth and Nail, The Making of a Female Fight Doctor.
1:53.8	Before we jump into that, I wasn't around on the pod the last few weeks to gloat and be super
1:58.8	excited about my Red Sox World Championship. And I know that you
2:02.6	guys suffer through my fandom, but I think I might have found a moment that at least makes you say
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