From Toronto to Paris

Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin / The Nation

News, Sports News, Sports, History, Politics

4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week we speak to journalist and Burn it All Down Podcast co-host Shireen Ahmed about her experience in Paris for the start of the Women’s World Cup and the scene in her hometown of Toronto following the victory of the Raptors in the NBA Finals.

We also have ‘Choice Words’ about the politics of Megan Rapinoe and her decision to not sing the National Anthem at the World Cup. We got a ‘Just Stand Up’ Award for Raptors guard Kyle Lowry (again) for his comments about who really deals with pressure and a ‘Just Sit Down’ award to Cleveland Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield for his comments about a teammate. All this and more on this week’s show!

Shireen Ahmed

Twitter: @_shireenahmed_

https://www.burnitalldownpod.com/

Zirin, Megan Rapinoe Is Right to Not Sing the Anthem

https://www.thenation.com/article/megan-rapinoe-sports-soccer/

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0:00.0	it's gross, but so is the whole thing of like even the manager accepting the trophy,
0:05.3	like the sorry, the owner.
0:06.7	That is disgusting to me.
0:08.1	You did not earn this.
0:09.3	You own it, quote unquote, like financially and on paper, but you don't own any more of
0:15.4	this team than that young kid climbing the lamppost on Young Street does.
0:19.0	That's Somali kid that knows their stats, knows their families,
0:22.9	like knows of them, knows everything about them.
0:25.2	That, to me, is an owner of the team.
0:41.1	Welcome to the edge of sports podcast. I'm Dave Ziron.
0:52.2	Our guest this week is Toronto-based sports writer and co-host of the Burn It Down podcast, Shereen Ahmed, who has just returned from France, where she was covering the beginning of the Women's World Cup.
0:56.7	She's also from Toronto, where I think there's been some sports news over the last week or so.
1:02.3	Also, I've got some choice words about the singing of the national anthem and Megan Rapino,
1:05.4	a women's World Cup star for the United States. I've also got Just Stand Up and Just Sit Down Awards and more. But first, Shereen Ahmed.
1:16.7	I actually flipped a coin as to what I was going to ask you about first, because I didn't
1:20.8	know whether to ask you about Toronto or the Women's World Cup.
1:24.3	You know what?
1:24.9	I can't believe that I was in France, never in my life would I have thought that a World Cup would be interrupted by basketball. But like this week for me was a rough one because I missed game five completely. I was just so jet lagged because I was up for like 40 hours and then slept through. But I woke up 3 o'clock in the morning. I watched it. I celebrated. Jess was beside me and I couldn't scream because she was sleeping. And it was incredible. It was just like, and I'm so glad I'm home. I'm going to the parade on Monday, and I'm really excited about that.
2:01.3	That's awesome.
2:02.0	So that would be my first question is like, what's the mood like in Toronto right now?
2:06.5	Well, I was on the outside, like from what I saw, like everywhere across the greater Toronto area, it was like sheer madness.
2:13.9	Like madness in terms of joy.
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