Episode 28: Racism in sport, getting ready for the Winter Olympics, and the NWHL’s Kaliya Johnson

Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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This week on Burn It All Down, Shireen Ahmed, Brenda Elsey, and Jessica Luther discuss racism in sport, including recent incidents in soccer and baseball, and share stories they’ve enjoyed about athletes preparing for next year’s Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Then Shireen interviews professional ice hockey player, Kaliya Johnson. As always, you’ll hear the Burn Pile and Bad Ass Woman of the Week. And in a final, special segment, writer and author of Baseball Life Advice, Stacey May Fowles, remembers pitcher Roy Halladay. For more info check our website: http://www.burnitalldownpod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:11.1	Did you have like a favorite team? Was it the Raptors at the time or no?
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0:21.8	You won't want to miss this.
0:22.9	Listen to The Do Zone with Drusky on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:31.2	Hey, hey, the Spire, it's burning us.
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0:45.3	Welcome to Burn It All Down, the feminist sports podcast you need. We are so happy you're here.
0:52.3	On today's show, we have the brilliant Brenda Elsie, a professor
0:56.4	of history at Hofstra University in New York, the excellent Shereen Ahmed, a writer, public
1:01.8	speaker, and sports activist in Toronto. And me, I'm Jessica Luther, freelance journalist and
1:07.4	author in Austin, Texas. On this week's show, we're going to discuss racism
1:11.8	and sport, an evergreen topic at Burn It All Down. Then we'll turn our attention to
1:16.6	Pyong Chung and the upcoming Winter Olympics that are less than 90 days away. With the forever
1:21.5	caveat about the damage this mega event often does to the local community, we're going to
1:26.3	focus on the athletes who are preparing for the games. And then, following up and adding to the local community, we're going to focus on the athletes who are preparing
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