Foul Puck Pod

The baseball plot thickens, the NHL continues to be a cesspit, and the Bay Area is suddenly the hot spot for professional women’s sports teams!

Contents include:

- Shohei Ohtani betting scandal update

- salary comparison across leagues

- NHL ongoing sexual assault case (CW for non-graphic discussion of a charged sexual assault)

- Bay Area WNBA team is go!!!

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🎵Reunited, and it feels so good!🎶 The episode in which your hosts are together for the first time since 2014, and manage to be remarkably coherent in the face of cake and margaritas. 🍹🎂

Contents include:

- Warriors update; World Series update; Oakland A’s move to Vegas update

- Hockey talk: Panther’s vs Senators game - YOU get a penalty, and YOU get a penalty, and YOU…

- NWHL: Launching and Challenges edition

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What’s it like to be a phenom, and if you’re so exceptionally good that you get to choose your own destiny, does it benefit you to hang out with a mediocre team? Join us to find out! (vicariously, through Shohei Ohtani.)

Contents include:

- WNBA Bay Area team gossip; Joe Lacob; general sports gossip

- Shohei Ohtani injury and athlete injury handling; comparative contract discussion

- Mike Fucking (derogatory) Babcock (TW for non-graphic discussion of player abuse)

- WWC Spanish drama update

- more sports updates

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Road Trip! In which 2/3 of the pod get to see the greatest living athlete of our generation perform live for about $50, not counting gas.

Content warning: please note that this episode discusses in detail the publicly televised sexual assault of a female soccer player at the FIFA Women’s World Cup.

Contents include:

- Simone Mf’ing Biles: Live and In Person

- oh, and there was some other gymnastics, too

- WWC Spanish drama update: Vilda, Rubiales, and the queen, oh my.

- Little League World Series

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Lucky underwear? Opposing team jerseys ritual? At least you’re not carting a toaster around to ensure your team wins! …or are you? In which the Foul Puck crew gets superstitious.

Contents include:

- WWC update: US, Spain, Sweden, Australia

- MLB: Marlin’s, A’s, around the league

- Little League World Series

- Sports superstitions

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Tune in to episode 63 for all the info about the women’s world cup circa the Group Stage, the unfettered drama that is book tok, and your hosts answering the pressing question: who is the hottest Doctor?

Contents include:

- WWC 23: end of the group stage overview, Nike ads, ACL epidemic, and the status of research in women’s sports

- Book Tok and hockey and the importance of the fourth wall

Content warning: at the end of the section on the women’s world cup, there is a relatively brief discussion of gender essentialism and the state of gendered medicine and research in sports. We have done our best to speak about this in a sensitive way, but please fast forward if this discussion is not for you.

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In this episode we seek to answer the controversial question that has plagued us all throughout the years: What mascots could you legally slap on the grill?

Contents include:

- A’s fan protests and the reverse boycotts

- Tour de France

- Women’s World Cup: the group stage and the USWNT

- Women’s College World Series: the Oklahoma Stomp; how much winning is “too much” winning?

- Outdoor Consumption of Exotic Meats, aka, The Most Forbidden Mascot

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In which outings are had, tree species are debated, and we attempt to define what qualifies as “too much winning.” AKA the Back-up Sports Edition.

Contents Include:

- Women’s College World Series: Gators, The Cardinal, the Oklahoma Stomp

- NBA Finals: Fuck Boston; who are we rooting for?

- Bay! F! C!

- Your 5 Mins of NHL

- Cycling, Soccer, and Softball!

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What's the difference between a "game," an "athletic activity," and a "sport," anyway? The hosts come to a conclusive ruling.

Contents include:

- Current A's streak

- NBA playoffs and Warriors updates

- Alabama collegiate betting scandal

- What is a "sport" anyway?

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In which we discuss the considerations of media-booth space sharing and the apparent epidemic of nutshots in the NBA play-offs.

Contents include:

- the A's: their park, their future, their *spits* ownership, and their presumed move to *spits* Vegas

- NBA playoffs: who's attacking whose nads and why; Warriors prognostication

- Five Minutes of NHL with Rebecca

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