Episode 48: NCAA Shamateurism, Baseball with River Butcher, and the Men’s World Cup

Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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This week, Brenda Elsey, Amira Rose Davis, Lindsay Gibbs, and Jessica Luther discuss shamateurism in college athletics. Jessica interviews River Butcher, comedian and host of the podcast Three Swings, about the baseball season that just got started. Then the gang talks about the upcoming men’s World Cup in Russia. As always, you’ll hear the Burn Pile, Bad Ass Women of the Week, and what’s good in our worlds. To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For more info check our website: http://www.burnitalldownpod.com Timestamps -- Intro (5:16) Shamateurism (22:24) Jessica interviews Rhea Butcher about this baseball season (34:30) Men’s World Cup (46:43) Burn Pile (56:50) Bad Ass Woman of the Week (58:45) What’s Good (1:04:55) Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:52.2	Today, we've got Amira Rose Davis, professor of history, women's and gender and sexuality
0:57.2	studies at Penn State, independent journalist Jessica Luther in Austin, and Lindsay Gibbs
1:02.9	wordsmith at Think Progress.
1:05.0	I'm Brenda Elsie, professor of history at Hofstra University, but currently in Argentina
1:10.0	Fulbrighting. This week, we're going
1:12.3	to talk shamiturism in college athletics. Jessica talks about the upcoming baseball season,
1:17.9	and will analyze the lead-up to the men's World Cup in Russia. We'll also burn some awful things
1:23.0	that happened in sports this week and celebrate some badass women's accomplishments.
1:27.5	But before all that, Lindsay, I was following you on Twitter this week and picked up on your
1:35.0	bad dinner guest habits. I picked up on some bad dinner guest habits that you have.
1:41.0	I take it you were invited to someone's house for a perfectly respectable meal and got
1:46.2	all sports fancy on them. You want to talk about what happened? It was in public at a Cuban
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