Episode 1: racism in baseball, NFL and DV, and FIBA rescinds head-covering ban

Burn It All Down

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4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2017

⏱️ 72 minutes

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In the inaugural episode of Burn It All Down, Julie DiCaro, Jessica Luther, Brenda Elsey, Shireen Ahmed, and Lindsay Gibbs discuss racist taunts in Boston, the depressing state of the NFL draft, and FIBA's overturning of the ban on headscarves. Plus you'll hear The Burn Pile and Badass Woman of the Week! We get into the racist incident at Fenway Park against Adam Jones of the Baltimore Orioles and the racist histories in sports towns, namely Boston (1:52) The group discusses the NFL draft, Joe Mixon and the other drafted players with ties to domestic violence cases, and the problematic way that major sports organizations do not care about women and what they can do better (21:38) Lindsay Gibbs goes through the history of football players involved in violence against women (31:48) How the current political culture validates a toxic culture of violence against women (36: 40) Watching sports and how, as women, we consume them and the news offered (38:38) Shireen Ahmed on the good news of FIBA rescinding the headcovering ban and the backstory of policing women’s bodies and how we move forward (45:36) Burn Pile - hosts set metaphorical fire to Magic Johnson meeting Floyd Mayweather (56:40) Louisiana State University sent out an email to athletes asking them not to wear LSU clothing if they protest against DOJ decision not to charge Anton Sterling’s murderers (57:09) International football media’s silence on Cristiano Ronaldo’s involvement in a rape case (59:40) Brazilian sports media for not extensively covering Emily Lima’s football badassery (1:02:20) Nick Saban will be paid $11 million dollars to coach the University of Alabama (1:04:12) Penn State has elected Jay Paterno’s son to the Board of Trustees (1:05:55) Badass woman of the week - Boxer Amaiya Zafar is that 1st woman to wear a scarf in the boxing ring in the United States (1:07:18) Honourable mentions - Jane Meyer settles lawsuit with University of Iowa in Title IX case (1:08:25) Patricia Driscoll’s bravery in coming forward about the abuse she faced by NASCAR driver Kurt Busch (1:09:38) On Adam Jones: https://theshadowleague.com/story/classless-red-sox-fans-shout-n-word-threats-at-adam-jones and http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/blog/bal-reaction-orioles-adam-jones-racial-slurs-20170502-story.html On the NFL draft and violence against women: https://thinkprogress.org/the-nfl-draft-proves-the-nfl-still-doesnt-care-about-women-fe44450b72c4 Jessica Luther’s work on football and sexualized violence: http://peninsulapress.com/2017/04/28/jessica-luther-sportswriter-profile/ FIBA’s headcovering ban: https://sports.vice.com/en_ca/article/after-a-long-fight-fiba-finally-lifts-its-ban-on-religious-headwear LSU and Anton Sterling: http://proday.co/moving-chains-fiba-allows-headcoverings-lsu-attempts-non-political-jane-meyer-makes-sexism-pay/ and https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-department-will-not-charge-baton-rouge-officers-in-fatal-shooting-of-alton-sterling/2017/05/02/ac962e66-2ea7-11e7-9534-00e4656c22aa_story.html Cristiano Ronaldo’s Rape Case: http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/rape-allegations-against-real-madrid-star-ronaldo-it-has-to-be-less-a-1144878.html On Emily Lima: http://www.fifa.com/womens-football/news/y=2017/m=4/news=emily-lima-a-pioneer-in-brazil-s-dugout-2879588.html Nick Saban’s Salary: http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2017/5/2/15515544/nick-saban-11-million-salary-highest-paid-sports-coach-2017 Jay Paterno: http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/19317902/joe-paterno-son-jay-paterno-elected-penn-state-board-trustees Amaiya Zafar: https://www.theshadowleague.com/story/amaiya-zafar-fights-for-inclusion-and-acceptance Jane Meyer: https://thinkprogress.org/jury-rules-iowa-athletics-willfully-discriminated-against-gay-female-administrator-c3e49ddd4206 Patricia Driscoll: https://thinkprogress.org/patricia-driscoll-nascar-6ff66e7a7d96 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices

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0:00.0	What's up y'all? It's Druski, and I've teamed up with Mountain Dew to produce a hilarious new basketball podcast called The Do Do Zone with Drusky.
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0:11.1	You have like a favorite team. Was it the rappers at the time or no?
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0:38.1	Oh. and burn it up. I hate this fire.
0:40.3	It's bad and burning eyes.
0:43.3	Oh.
0:50.5	And welcome in to the first episode of Burn It All Down.
0:55.2	It may not be the feminist podcast you want about sports, but it's the feminist podcast you need.
0:56.6	My name is Julie DeCaro.
1:01.0	I'm a sports writer in Chicago, and let me introduce you to the rest of the panel today.
1:07.1	Joining us from Austin, Texas, is the fantastic writer Jessica Luther, author of unsportsman-like conduct, college football, and the politics of rape.
1:10.1	Super cheery subject there from Jessica.
1:12.0	She also writes for a ton of media outlets focusing largely on sports and violence against women.
1:18.7	The amazing Lindsay Gibbs of Think Progress, who also covers a lot of sports and gender issues.
1:25.2	I'm an LLC associate professor at Hofstra University who studies politics, culture,
1:30.3	gender, and focuses a lot on soccer.
1:34.0	And from Toronto, the incomparable Shereen Ahmed, freelance sports writer,
1:39.3	writes for a lot of outlets on the intersection of sports and race and gender and violence against women, places like
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