Episode 55: Danica Patrick’s legacy, growing women’s sports, and an interview with Holly Rowe

Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

On this week’s show, Lindsay, Shireen, and Jessica discuss the complicated legacy of Danica Patrick as she closes out her racing career. Then Jessica interviews ESPN’s Holly Rowe about the NCAA softball tournament, Rowe’s advocacy at ESPN for women’s sports, and her WNBA play-by-play debut this past Sunday. And we put on our Commissioner hats and talk about what women’s sports leagues could do to help grow their audiences. Of course, you’ll hear the Burn Pile, our Bad Ass Woman of the Week, and what is 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 (3:18) Danica Patrick (17:00) Interview with Holly Rowe (31:14) Growing women’s sports (47:15) Burn Pile (53:14) Bad Ass Woman of the Week (55:49) What’s Good (1:01:30) Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

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 Zone with Drewski.
0:07.7	Learn the backstories of your favorite ballers and celebrities like Jamal Murray.
0:11.1	Did you have like a favorite team? Was it the Raptors at the time or no?
0:14.5	Was the Raptors even started around that time?
0:16.1	Come on, bro. I ain't that old, Phil. You're talking like I'm 50. Taylor, Rokes, Asian Wilson, and many more.
0:21.7	You won't want to miss this.
0:22.9	Listen to The Do Zone with Drewski on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:31.6	And I suck you up and I spit you out.
0:35.7	And I'll play with your babies to the scream and shout. Oh yeah.
0:40.7	Oh yeah.
0:41.7	To your screaming.
0:42.9	Oh, yeah.
0:44.6	Oh, yeah.
0:45.9	To you scream.
0:46.2	Hello, hello, hello.
0:47.3	Fellow Flamethrowers and welcome to Burn It All Down, the feminist sports podcast you need.
0:52.9	I'm Lindsay Gibbs, sports reporter at Think
0:54.7	Progress, will be your host today. And joining me are two of my beloved co-host, Jessica
1:00.3	Louser, the dogged investigative journalist from Austin, Texas, and Shereen Ahmed, sports
1:06.5	reporter and self-proclaimed cat lover in Toronto, Canada.
1:15.2	This week, we're going to talk about Danica Patrick's complicated legacy.
1:21.8	Look at the current status of the top three women's pro leagues, pro team leagues, I would say, the National Women's Hockey League, National Women's Soccer League, and WNBA,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Burn It All Down, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Burn It All Down and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.