Interview: Howard Megdal, Sports Writer, on WNBA Ownership and March Madness

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🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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In this episode, Lindsay Gibbs interviews Howard Megdal, founder and editor of The IX and The Next newsletters, about all things women’s basketball. They discuss his explosive feature in Sports Illustrated on the fractured state of WNBA ownership and what drama women’s college basketball is bringing to March. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/burn-it-all-down/ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, Flamthrowers, Lindsay here. I am so excited to be
0:14.7	for our interview this week by Howard Megdal, the founder of The Nine, and The Next. The Nine is a newsletter that each day of the week you get a full digest of a different women's sport and the next is a 24-7 basketball newsroom. Howard, hi.
0:36.1	Hi, Lindsay Gibbs. It's so good to see you always.
0:38.9	It is so good to have you with us.
0:41.0	So Howard is here this week.
0:42.9	We're going to talk all things women's basketball.
0:45.6	And by all things, I mean like 30 minutes worth of women's basketball.
0:50.2	That's short for us.
0:51.8	30, 40 minutes.
0:53.2	It's very ambitiously short.
0:54.8	We have a heart out here.
0:55.9	But we're going to start off by talking about Howard's explosive report that published last
1:01.5	week on Sports Illustrated about the state of ownership in the WNBA, among other things.
1:07.9	I think that's kind of the PG version of the way to put it.
1:11.3	And then got some questions.
1:13.5	You know, it's March.
1:14.6	Most of the conference tournaments were last weekend.
1:17.3	This Sunday, I believe a selection Sunday, which I think the women are a part of now.
1:22.6	But we just want to talk through a few March storylines.
1:25.2	Get everybody pumped for the madness because it's already started.
1:30.3	Howard, let's just get right into it. So this piece for Sports Illustrated, the big top line
1:35.4	takeaway that most people had was about this fight over charter flights with the league
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