Ep 88: Fixing amateurism, continued corruption and abuse in WoSo, and tennis with Caitlin Thompson

Burn It All Down

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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For our first episode of 2019, Lindsay, Shireen, Jessica, and Brenda talk about a rare moment of joy in U.S. politics (3:22); celebrate the national championship game by talking about how to fix amateurism (9:20); Lindsay interviews Caitlin Thompson about Racquet Magazine and the Australian Open (26:50) ; and the group discusses the ongoing corruption in global soccer, particularly in the wake of the sexual abuse scandal with the Afghanistan national team. (42:50) As always, there's the Burn Pile (58:00), BAWOTW (1:06:35), and What's Good (1:08:07). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast episode is brought to you by Coors Light. These days, everything is go, go, go.
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1:03.1	Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to the very first 2019 episode of Burn It All Down,
1:05.7	the feminist sports podcast you need.
1:13.1	I am Lindsay Gibbs, sports reporter at Fink Progress, and joining me on a morning when technology is not our friend is three of my fabulous co-host, Jessica Luther, freelance writer and author in
1:21.2	Austin, Texas, Brenda Elsie, Associate Professor of History at Hofstra University. That is still a tongue twister for me in New York. And then, of course at Hofstra University.
1:27.8	That is still a tongue twister for me in New York.
1:30.8	And then, of course, Shereen Ahmed, the freelance sports writer and a person we are very proud
1:37.7	did not throw her microphone this morning over there up in Toronto, Canada.
1:43.4	Hi, friends. How are you? I'm here. Good morning.
1:49.2	Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Friends, just work with us. We're having one of those days,
1:55.4	but we are excited to get this episode to you today because I think it's going to be a good one,
2:00.5	not that I'm biased. In honor of
2:02.5	the college football playoff national championship game, which will have been played by the time
2:07.9	you hear this, we're going to discuss how to fix amateurism. Done. So, you know, glad we're going to
2:14.8	take care of that. Then we're going to get you caught up on the latest regarding an evergreen topic here,
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