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!!! If you enjoy this podcast, please go and give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the listening platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

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 If you enjoy this podcast, please go and give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the listening platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

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 If you enjoy this podcast, please go and give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the listening platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

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 If you enjoy this podcast, please go and give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the listening platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

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. If you enjoy this podcast, please go and give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the listening platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

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 If you enjoy this podcast, please go and give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the listening platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

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! If you enjoy this podcast, please go and give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the listening platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

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? If you enjoy this podcast, please go and give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the listening platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

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 If you enjoy this podcast, please go and give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the listening platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

Nancy previews the upcoming NBA playoffs and Rachel talks about the baseball match-up heard around the world! Contents include: - NBA playoffs: play-ins; the western bracket; California Classic; the first round - World Baseball Classic: Mike Trout vs Shohei Otani - NWSL: Portland, San Diego, and the Women's World Cup - Baseball's new rules - WNBA upcoming season - 5 seconds of hockey - A's preview If you enjoy this podcast, please go and give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the listening platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

Who's had a sports injury, and what was it like? How do the various major leagues handle sports injury disclosures? And where are the sticky fingers of capitalism in all of this? Contents include: - injury announcements and how they differ across major leagues - how much right do fans have to players' medical information? - how much more will this be relevant with the increase in sports betting? - how does violence in the sport affect or correlate with violence outside the sport? If you enjoy this podcast, please go and give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the listening platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

Leaky in the Five Hole, in which we discuss the age-old dilemma of sports fans everywhere: how many screens do you watch on at once??? Contents include: - Nancy's fütbol rabbit hole - how do you decide which game to watch if you have competing options? - baseball shenanigans - brief discussion sexual assault in the men's professional sports, as relates to the careers of Trevor Bauer and Anthony Lam, among others. Content warning: this episode does content non-graphic descriptions of alleged sexual assault. If you enjoy this podcast, please go and give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the listening platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

Welcome home, Brittney Griner! (Alternate title: Argentina won, whatever.) In which Nancy is bullied by her co-hosts and we rehash the last of the World Cup. Contents include: WC wrap-up: the final; the ‘flu'; the colonialism; the racism Rebecca and the hockey hotel Brittney Griner's return to the US Assorted Sports Updates If you enjoy this podcast, please go and give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the listening platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

The World Cup Episode, or, Vaguely More Defensible Bullshit. In which the pod talks about the World Cup and celebrates Rachel's birthday. Please note that this episode deals with sensitive topics including the oppression of women, migrant workers, and queers, as well as general human rights abuses. Additional notes: Nancy at one point claims French player Olivier Giroud has a brother on the team - this is incorrect, she was conflating him with the Hernandez brothers. Also, Rebecca notes that the Qataran criminalization of homosexuality is the biggest issue we care about, which is an accidentally misleading statement - it is the most personal issue to us, but we recognize that all human rights abuses, including those against queer people and women and immigrant workers, are bad and should be condemned. If you enjoy this podcast, please go and give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the listening platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

Foul Puck returns after a lengthy hiatus to re-affirm our long-standing motto of “I'm not looking that up!” Contents include Rachel despairing, Nancy being smug, and Rebecca throwing over her beloved Flyers, along with: MLB: the demise of the A's; end-of-season recap; preview of the 2023 season's changes NBA: 4x Champion Warriors; Warriors growing pains WNBA: Becky Hammon, Brittney Griner, and the Vegas Aces NHL: Boo, Flyers, Boo; State of the Caps If you enjoy this podcast, please go and give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the listening platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

A previously recorded episode in which Rachel previews the (lack of) spring baseball, we talk CBAs, and the future of sports fanbases by age. Contents include: - Baseball CBA and “strike”; government involvement; “ghost wins”; the effect on the MLiB; expiring contracts; won't anyone think of the fans? - Fanbase age demographics across sports - FP team ownership plan If you enjoy this podcast, please go and give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the listening platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

A (very belated) wrap-up episode for our Olympics coverage of the 2022 Beijing Olympics. Contents include: - figure skating controversies - snocross - reverse ageism - and much more! If you enjoy this podcast, please go and give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the listening platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

For our final Winter Olympic Mini-sode, Rebecca takes us deep into the labyrinthine vocabulary that makes up the sport of curling! Join us for the olympic edition of sports mad libs! Alternate title: One Cleat and One Bowling Shoe If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

Tune in to our 12th Winter Olympics Minisode to hear about the origins, types, and likelihood of injury in snowboarding! Pro-tip: wear a helmet. Alternate title: Snurf If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

In Winter Olympics Minisode 11, we explore language, discuss the miracle of 3D printing, and imagine how much cooler this sport would be with a bow and arrow instead of guns. Alternate title: Biathlon, But In 3 Syllables If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

What is it that's getting "combined" anyway? Join us on Winter Olympic Minisode 10 as we explore the origins, details, and strategies of Nordic Combined! Alternate Title: Mitigating Mediocrity If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

Tune in to our 9th Winter Olympics Minisode to learn why everything you've ever believed about which is the fastest color is wrong (and also about short track speed skating)! Alternate title: Skate Speeding If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

Join the hosts of Foul Puck for an in-depth and completely objective analysis and learning moment about the merits of cross-country skiing! Bonus content: roller skiing and the effects of climate change. Alternate title: Crowdsourcing the Brain Cell If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

Twizzles, Axels, and Lifts, oh my! On Olympic Minisode 7 we dive into the details of Figure Skating, including the lesser-know disciplines and the weirdness of the team event. Alternate Title: All Licorice Is An Abomination If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

For Olympic Minisode the 6th, Rachel introduces us to the origins, styles, and scoring of freestyle skiing, which the rest of us know nothing about! Alternate Title: Pipe Dragon If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

Join us as Rebecca, our hockey person, talks about Olympic hockey! Includes the differences between the NHL and Olympic play, why you won't see any NHLers at the Olympics, and why the women's team captains keep marrying each other. CW: minor discussion of racism. Alternate Title: Episode Wepisode If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

Winter Olympics Primer the Fourth takes us to some very normal hills where we learn about V-style, the K-spot, and just a hint of sexism (in case you thought we'd gone off brand for too long). Alternate Title: Geese Everywhere Nod Knowingly If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

In our third Winter Olympics minisode, we discuss whether we'd prefer to go highway speeds down an icy waterslide headfirst or on our back. The one thing we can all agree on? Driving the luge-track zamboni must be hella fun. Alternate Title: Hey Baby, Wanna See My Monobob? If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

Join us for our second Winter Olympic Mini-sode as Rachel introduces us to the various types and events of Alpine (Downhill)Skiing! Alternate Title: Gravity, Take The Wheel If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

Welcome to the first of our Winter Olympic Primer Minisodes! Join us as Rebecca explains the equipment, format, points, rankings, and all the other details of Long Track Speed Skating! Alternate Title: It's Not About The Distance, It's About The Size Of The Track If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

Welcome to our very first Winter Olympics Mini-sode! In this short episode, Rachel gives an overview of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. Content warnings for brief discussion of the Uyghur genocide. Alternate title: Shuffle Shuffle Bang! If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

Our fiftieth episode!!! In which we find that two thirds of the pod do not know where The Washington Football Team is based. Contents include: - Pandemic check-in at 20 months - Ovi and the scoring record chase - Who won the World Series, anyway? - Geography who? I don't know her. - Native American mascots (CW: discussion of racism and racial slurs) - Warriors update If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

In which we root for a sinkhole to open under the field of the 2021 World Series, and in which Nancy waxes ecstatic about the WNBA Playoffs. Contents include: The End of Baseball (incl the Giants) WNBA Post-Season: Finals and formats; Phoenix vs Aces; players of note; controversies; Sky vs Sun; Chicago + Candace If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

Rachel tells us all about sports betting. Alternate titles include: All Levels of Hyperbole; The Pie and Laundry Episode. Sports betting: rule changes; legalization and sponsor agreements; advertising; pros and cons WNBA Playoffs: format; Sky, Mercury, Storm, Sun, Aces Vaccination: Women's sports, NBA, NHL If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

A Paralympics Viewing Discussion and Rec List, followed by Evander Kane: The Extended Saga. Alternate title: "Reason for Firing: Pressed Ham" Contents Include: Paralympics: What are we watching? Evander Kane: The Extended Saga Indoor sports and vaccination rules in the age of plague: continued Unwritten Rule of Baseball: The Fans Are Never Wrong A Brief History of Soapboxes If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

Slippery balls and the Commissioner's Cup. Alternate titles include: More Slip Than Grip; #StickyStuff: The Stickening Contents Include: #StickyStuff: pitchers v batters; safety concerns; details of the ban; incidence of injury Commissioner's Cup: concept; hosting; Breanna Stewart Warriors Update: summer league and the draft; return of Iggy; other trades Indoor sports and vaccination rules in the age of plague If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

In which we learn a whole lot about sports, get really excited about the Paralympics, and talk a little too much about trains. Contents include: - Historic Disabled Olympians - Trains - Paralympic Games History - Paralympic Classifications - Paralympic Sports - How to Watch - Who to Watch If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

In which the best way to get ahead in gymnastics is to be a twin. Potential titles included: "Man go fast on bike, man win race"; "a cheeto riveted to the wall"; and "sportsmanship and kindness." Contents include: Gymnastics, Rhythmic and Artistic: Simone Bikes; the Averina sisters Climbing: Janja Garnbret beats the pants off everyone Cycling: man go fast, win race Softball: concern trolling and play differences Older athletes and parents in elite sports Women's track and field: Allyson Felix, Sydney McLaughlin, Dalilah Muhammad, Athing Mu First medals for many countries Impressive people: Tamyra Mensah-Stock, Feryal Abdelaziz, Raven Saunders, the USA women's basketball team "Gal Pals": Kristie Mewis and Sam Kerr The composition of Olympic medals If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

The Olympics have a storied history, and the early Olympics even more so. Join us as Rachel gives us a run-down on how to go from "event bystander" to "gold medalist" in a matter of minutes! If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

Manage to catch some of the Olympic diving that's been all over the airwaves the past week or so? Rebecca explains how on earth the scoring for that works, as well as the different kinds of dives and diving apparatus, while Rachel speculates as to how you might become a Left Guy Judge. Join us! If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

Rebecca fills us in on the differences between track cycling and road cycling, the peloton and the velodrome, and explains how a sport that awards medals to individuals is still, somehow, a team sport. Also: Olympic breaking wind. If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

Ever wondered whether you'd perform better in the kata or kumite Olympic Karate competitions? Or what the difference is between a sport-based vs event-based approach to the Olympics? We have the answers! If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

How do you have surfing as a competition in a land-locked host city? and other questions, answered by Rachel! If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

Ever wondered about the correct technique for putting your shot? Or how we ended up with such an event in the first place? Rebecca reveals all in our latest primer! If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

An exploration of types of Olympic swimming, past and present, including vocabulary terms and event descriptions for multiple swimming events, as well as who to watch! If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

If you watched the opening ceremonies, you saw the little montage of athletes working out and practicing while in pandemic lockdown. This episode is about the person climbing their fireplace (and all their friends). f you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

Presenting the fourth of our Summer Olympics Sports Primers! In this episode, host Rachel takes us through some of the differences between fast-pitch softball and baseball and tells us how to watch some of the first Olympic Softball in over a decade! Also included: windmill terminology. If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

Presenting the third of our Summer Olympics Sports Primers! A very fast and dirty overview of the types of olympic gymnastics; events, scoring, and apparatus; and who to watch in 2021. Alternate Title: Shut Up, Nancy. *note: Nancy misspeaks - MyKayla Skinner is not an alternate, she is an individual competitor with the US team. Also, the women's team is not majority minority; it is an even split. And a clarification - Suni Lee beat Simone Biles specifically on the uneven bars both days and beam one day, but not in the all-around. If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

Presenting the second of our Summer Olympics Sports Primers! In this short episode, Rebecca teaches us which way to face in a boat, and reassures us that we'll be able to get our feet free and thus not drown if the boat tips over. Thanks, Rebecca! If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

Welcome to our very first Summer Olympics Sports Primer! In this short episode, Rachel gives an overview of the 2020-Olympics-that-were and the 2021-Olympics-to-come. Give a listen to learn what to watch, how to watch, and when to watch it! If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod on twitter or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!