Burn It All Down
Ep 240: How Bad Owners Ruin Sports
- Autor: Vários
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- Duración: 0:53:10
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**Trigger Warning for suicide and mental health struggles** Burn It All Down offers our condolences to the family and community of Katie Meyer, a goal keeper of Stanford’s women’s soccer team. Katie was part of the Cardinal’s 2019 NCAA title winning team and wowed the country with her tenacity and her spirit. She died one week ago. We hold space and share in the heartbreak with with the Meyers family, Stanford community and all young athletes who are grieving and devastated at this time. The number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline in the USA is 1-800-273-TALK (8255); and in Canada is 1-833-456-4566. In this episode Shireen Ahmed, Lindsay Gibbs and Brenda Elsey talk all about owners of sports teams and leadership. But first, they share their favorite fangirl moments to celebrate International Women's Day. Then, they dive into the (mostly) bad apples of sports ownership. Sparked by the ongoing owner imposed lockout in MLB, they discuss they ways greed, capitalism and racism by owners ruin the sports