Episode 53: Happy Birthday to BIAD, with special guests Wyomia Tyus and Elena Delle Donne

Burn It All Down

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4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Happy Birthday to Burn It All Down! We turn one this week, and yet we feel so old. First up on the show, Brenda, Shireen, Lindsay, and Jessica reflect on this year and look forward to the next one. Then, Lindsay interviews sure-to-be-a-legend Elena Delle Donne of the Washington Mystics about Adam Silver’s recent comments about the WNBA, how WNBA president Lisa Borders is doing, and EDD publicly coming out. Up next, Wyomia Tyus -- a two-time olympian, track legend, and author -- joins Amira to talk about Tyus’ experiences playing sports in the Jim Crow South, the 1968 Olympics, and athletic protest. They also preview Tyus’ memoir, Tigerbelle: The Wyomia Tyus Story. Then the BIAD crew, once again, talks about diversity in sports media (or lack thereof). 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 Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BurnItDownPod and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/. Timestamps -- Intro (1:37) It’s our birthday! (7:50) Lindsay interviews Elena Delle Donne (18:26)Amira interviews Wyomia Tyus (37:44) Diversity in sports media (54:03) Burn Pile (1:01:01) Bad Ass Woman of the Week (1:03:20) What’s Good (1:06:56) Outro 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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1:01.1	Welcome to Burn It All Down, the Sport and Feminism Podcast you need.
1:06.7	Today we've got Shirin Ahmed, freelance sports writer, Cat Lover in Toronto, Canada.
1:11.9	Jessica Luther, independent writer and author of unsportsmanlike conduct, college football and the politics of rape in Austin, Texas.
1:15.0	Lindsay Gibbs, the hardest working wordsmith at Think Progress in D.C.
1:19.5	And I'm Brenda Elsie, Associate Professor of History at Hofstra University, currently Anna
1:24.2	Fulbright in La Plata, Argentina.
1:26.6	In spirit, we also have co-host Amira Rose Davis,
1:29.8	assistant professor of history and women's gender
1:31.9	and sexuality studies at Penn State,
1:34.3	who unfortunately cannot be with us today
1:36.1	at our happy birthday episode.
1:39.6	Yay!
1:40.3	Happy birthday!
1:42.1	Happy birthday! It's been one year since Burned All Down began.
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