In which we decry capitalism generally, specifically, and at length, and in which Nancy talks too much.

Football Season Finale:
- boring, but also frustrating; tossing the laundry; missing team pieces
- coach's car wreck; "moment of silence"; our collective agoraphobia

FSF Good Things:
- 1st woman ref; Black coaching staff; Amanda Gorman

Less Good Things:
- Patrick Mahomes' injuries; End Racism; punts; domestic violence

ETC:
- halftime; commercials and the various genres thereof; beer commercials are the only commercials who get it; Fuck Capitalism

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Foul Puck Episode 035 - The Super-spreader Bowl

In which we're fine, we're all fine. In fact, we're super!

Contents Include:
Extended Pandemic Check-in
Soccer: Super League - what happened; why; 27 words
Hockey: women's international cancellation
MLB: A's Faustian Bargain; A'sSHAT; baseball changes that have stuck
NBA: Steph Curry; the Warriors
NHL: Patty Marleau; Nicky Bakstrom
Unwritten Rule of Baseball: Pitchers shouldn't glare at fielders who fuck up

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Foul Puck Episode 042 - Everything is Super

In which Nancy definitely butchers some names there at the end: sincere apologies to all concerned! Also, now we want an egg sandwich.

Contents include:
WNBA: season starting
NWSL: AU; GOALS newsletter and women's sports numbers
NHL: playoffs and playoff complications
MLB: the devil has come to take his due; Matt Olson: Drag Queen; umpire conspiracy theory
Pod Vocab: Trade deadline; Future Considerations
Draymond Green and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Take
...Olympics?
Steph Curry and his 3-pointers

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Foul Puck Episode 043 - Cuckoo-Bananas

Alternate title: Universal Jerk-off Motion (finals predictions and prognostications with a side of well-informed complaining)

Contents include:
NBA: Warriors 20/21: the best we could have expected, really; play-in bracket; Steph's still got it; off-season possibilities; finals thoughts
NHL: finals trajectories; Av's and Caps; Nazem Kadri's suspension
MLB: A's are still doing ok!; run differentials and why we care (or don't)
NCAA Softball play-offs
Litany of Complaints re: Trying to Watch Women's Sports
WNBA/NWSL updates

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Foul Puck Episode 044 - Drink Your Wine and Say Yes

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!

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Foul Puck Summer Olympics Primer 01 - Olympic Overview

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!

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Foul Puck Summer Olympics Primer 02 - Rowing

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.

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Foul Puck Summer Olympics Primer 03 - Gymnastics

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.

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Foul Puck Summer Olympics Primer 04 - Softball

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).

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Foul Puck Summer Olympics Primer 05 - Climbing

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!

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Foul Puck Summer Olympics Primer 06 - Swimming

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!

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Foul Puck Summer Olympics Primer 07 - Shotput & Discus

How do you have surfing as a competition in a land-locked host city? and other questions, answered by Rachel!

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Foul Puck Summer Olympics Primer 08 - Surfing

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!

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Foul Puck Summer Olympics Primer 09 - Karate

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.

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Foul Puck Summer Olympics Primer 10 - Cycling

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!

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Foul Puck Summer Olympics Primer 12 - Diving

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!

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Foul Puck Summer Olympics Primer 13 - Weird Olympic History

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

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Foul Puck Episode 045 - Olympic Wrap-up

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

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Foul Puck Paralympic Primer

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

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Foul Puck Episode 046 - More Grip, Less Slip

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

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Foul Puck Episode 047 - They Came For The Spreadsheets

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

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Foul Puck Episode 048 - Slippery and Exceedingly Dumb

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

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Foul Puck Episode 049 - Sinkhole 2021

First full episode of the Foul Puck Podcast! Join us as we explore the genesis of the podcast's premise (sports talk and explanation by and for non-traditional sports fans, aka women, PoC, queer folk, and sports latecomers) and meet our hosts!

Featuring:
- Nancy, basketball enthusiast and sometime hockey fan (Warriors, Sharks)
- Rachel, baseball guru and sometime basketball fan (Marlins, A's)
- Rebecca, hockey know-a-bunch and sports fandom commentator (Stars, Capitals)

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Foul Puck Episode 001 : The Inaugural Episode

In Memoriam: Kobe and Gianna Bryant - a basketball legend who will go down as one of the greats of all time, but who also had a very serious accusation in his past, and the gifted daughter who was only getting started. What does the death of a celebrity mean to a fan, and how do we reconcile the bad actions of a revered figure after a tragic death? Two of the Foul Puck hosts share a frank discussion. Trigger warnings for death and discussion of sexual assault.

Special Episode: Kobe Bryant

Are sports really coming back? Is this a socialist podcast in disguise? Does league management know what a "bubble" really is? Listen to find out!

Contents include:
- Designated Hitter 101: pros, cons, and bunting
- Changes We'd Like To See To Baseball
- NWSL Challenge Cup: who we're rooting for; Rachel's short-lived Australian soccer career
- NHL return-to-play plan (such as it is)
- The burning question no one will answer: how many infected people is too many infected people?
- NBA and MLB return-to-play plans (one of these is better than the other)
- Socialism break
- Unwritten Rule of Baseball: the Color Line

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Foul Puck Episode 017: A Mesh Hat

Women's Hockey, the NHL Diversity Alliance, and Rachel's Covid Conspiracy Theory, oh my!!

Contents include:
- Current Baseball: The Marlins are a whole new team; MLB has the plague; A's sweeping the Asstros; Rachel's Rona Theory; A's/Asstro's brawl
- Vocabulary: Walk-off Grand Slam
- Hockey Diversity Alliance: JT Brown, Evander Kane, Akim Aliu; #WePlayFor; conversations in the bubble
- Tales from the Negro League: Rube Foster and the Bunt Rally
- Explainer: The State of Women's Hockey in North America (small and underfunded)- player boycott; history of women's leagues in NoAm; structural challenges and lack of pay; connection (or lack thereof) with the NHL

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Foul Puck Episode 021 - A Better Angle on the Iceberg

Content warning for slightly graphic discussion of police violence toward Black people, in the context of the Jacob Blake shooting and the response of sports with the boycott/strike.

Contents include:
The shooting of Jacob Blake by police and the subsequent response of Sports:
- Hockey: Eastern NHL vs Western NHL response; the NHL nap factor
- Basketball: the origin of the strike; actions by the NBA; actions by the WNBA
- timeline of teams involved and the actions taken by them and when
- Baseball: Jackie Robinson Day, Chadwick Boseman, and Bruce Maxwell
- Hockey Pt. 2: Logan Coture shows his whole ass online (not literally, that would have been more appreciated)
- Matter is the Minimum/College Sports and activism
- Vocab 2020: Boycott vs Strike
Tales from the Negro Leagues: Satchel Page and Barnstorming

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Foul Puck Episode 023 - Matter is the Minimum

Why are women's sports so hard to follow? Is it bad PR or are we just lazy? In short, yes. 

Contents include:
Basketball:
- WNBA game timing; never read the comments; Seattle Storm and the Chicago Sky; lack of good women's sports PR; Nancy on the couch
-NBA game: Thunder vs Rockets; James Harden v Chris Paul; 'flopping' vs 'embellishment'; status of the playoffs
- star players vs team play
Hockey:
- Colorado Avalanche vs the Dallas Stars
Unwritten Rule of Baseball: Don't Swing on a 3|0 pitch
Kentucky Derby and horse racing: America's Whitest Sport

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Foul Puck Episode 024 - A Horse in the Race

Happy Birthday, Sue Bird, and congratulations on your engagement!!!<333

Contents include:
- NHL: Stanley Cup - the origin, appearance, and logistics thereof; 2020 post-season vs a normal post-season; Lightning vs Stars results; Stars injury list; the "embellishment" call
- WNBA: Seattle Storm win the championship by kicking ass and taking names; Sue Bird, we stan
- Stanley Cup Redux: embellishment call cont.; pulling the goalie; Stars did good, we're proud
- MLB: Wild Card Series vs Wild Card Game; post-season 2020 vs normal post-season;  A's bow out; Marlins bow out; Go Rays
- the complications of following multiple teams
- MNBA: Lakers vs Heat; Lebron, AD, and JB; 40 pt triple-double; Go Heat!

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Foul Puck Episode 026 - Sue Bird, We Stan

Welcome to your NWHL N-Dubble preview episode!

Contents include:
NWSL: new teams! new games!
NWHL: 2021 Season and playoffs; social media and public support
Tales from the Negro Leagues: The Negro Leagues are a Major League now! ...ish.
NHL: Willie O'Ree and racial platitudes from white men's organizations
NBA: the Warriors don't suck! James Wiseman, Andrew Wiggins, and Kelly Oubre Jr.; Steph Curry's new record; The Nets and the big If
NHL pt 2: Division alterations and the effects thereof; the Stars and the Avs and the Sharks, oh my
NFL: Season Finale approacheth

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Foul Puck Episode 032: The Collective Whale

An important intellectual discussion of multifaceted approaches toward team selection and loyalty. (We talk about our favs, yo.)

Contents include:
NWHL Season: Leveille, Babstock; hockey fan art; Important Penguin Tangent; hair maintenance in women's sports; separation of the NHL from college hockey; full face shields; cross-sport promotion
How to Pick A Team: names; colors; location; players; affinities; flow-chart recommendations; friend's teams; commentators; enjoyability; back-up teams
RIP Henry Aaron: career and white-washing thereof
Wardell Stephen Curry II

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Foul Puck Episode 033 - Halfway to Spelling Whale

Foul Puck Podcast: Sportsball for the Rest of Us

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