Episode 14: Baseball and Sexual Violence, LA 2028, and Women's Soccer

Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2017

⏱️ 65 minutes

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In Episode 14 of Burn It All Down, Lindsay Gibbs and Shireen Ahmed take over to talk about sexual violence in baseball, ruin your excitement about the Olympics coming to Los Angeles, and celebrate the latest happenings in women's soccer. Then, Lindsay talks with Rhiannon Walker, an Associate Editor at The Undefeated, about the rich, complicated history of black people in tennis, and the importance of the American Tennis Association, the oldest black professional sports league. Finally, Shireen and Lindsay light up the Burn Pile and honor our BadAss Woman of the Week -- but not before a slight detour that involves, well, axes. Show notes: In Episode 14 of Burn It All Down, Lindsay Gibbs and Shireen Ahmed take over to talk about Jen Ramos’s great piece for the Hardball Times on sexual violence in baseball (2:10) and the allegations against Pete Rose (8:13). Then they ruin your excitement about the Olympics coming to Los Angeles (12:37), and celebrate the latest happenings in women's soccer (21:19), including Bri Scurry finally getting inducted into the Hall of Fame (25:41) Then, Lindsay talks with Rhiannon Walker, an Associate Editor at The Undefeated, about the rich, complicated history of black people in tennis (28:38), and the importance of the American Tennis Association, the oldest black professional sports league. Shireen and Lindsay return light up the Burn Pile for the abuse a Sikh referee experienced online during Chelsea’s loss to Inter Milan (52:33), and Ray Lewis’s comments about Colin Kaepernick (53:30). We then honor our BadAss Woman of the Week (55:50), Claressa Shields, before talking about what we’re looking forward to this upcoming week (58:30). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:01.1	It might not be the feminist sports podcast you want, but it's the feminist sports
1:04.7	podcast you need.
1:06.2	This week, it is myself, Lindsay Gibbs, sports reporter at Think Progress. And joining me is
1:14.3	Shereen Ahmed, a freelance sports writer from Toronto. Hey, Shereen, how are you doing? Hey, Lindsay, I'm
1:20.9	good thanks. It's just you and me today. Steering the ship all by ourselves. You think we can make it?
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