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!

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Foul Puck Summer Olympics Primer 07 - Shotput & Discus

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!

Foul Puck Summer Olympics Primer 06 - Swimming

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!

Foul Puck Summer Olympics Primer 05 - Climbing

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!

Foul Puck Summer Olympics Primer 04 - Softball

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!

Foul Puck Summer Olympics Primer 03 - Gymnastics

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!

Foul Puck Summer Olympics Primer 02 - Rowing

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!

Foul Puck Summer Olympics Primer 01 - Olympic Overview

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 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!

Foul Puck Episode 044 - Drink Your Wine and Say Yes

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 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!

Foul Puck Episode 043 - Cuckoo-Bananas

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 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!

Foul Puck Episode 042 - Everything is Super

Welcome to spring with Pod Special Guest Mandi Marquardt to talk about all things soccer and appropriate oral boundaries! Contents include: NWSL: new kits; rebrandings; coming teams; "friendlies"; Challenge Cup; Violence In Soccer; Olympic and National Teams; US Soccer lawsuit NHL: Canucks and the plague; capitalism reigns; trade deadline MLB: All-star game; A's pitching and season start NBA: Current state of the Warriors; Steph Curry's injury; play-in round Tales From The Negro Leagues: Cool Papa Bell 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!

Foul Puck Episode 041 - Keep Your Mouth To Yourself (in sports)

Alternate titles for this track include: "Came In Hot With A Slurpee And A Bag Of Chips" and "The Fyre Festival Cheese Sandwich of Weight Rooms". Contents include: Unwritten Rule of Baseball: Why You Should Have Your Power-hitter Bat Clean-up NCAA: (apologies to Hoosiers and Missourians)NCAA tournament men's vs women's facilities, swag, weights, food, staff, and tests History of the NCAA/Title IX/NCAA Funding NAACP Jackie Robinson Award Assorted Updates: Warriors; NWHL; Athletes Unlimited 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!

Foul Puck Episode 040 - F*ck the NCAA

A year and two days after sports shut down, your hosts review the last 367 days personally, professionally, and in sports. The back-up title for this one was "Gritty On My Ass", so you know it's good. Contents include: -What sports mascot would you get tattooed on your buttcheek? -Pandemic Pod Revisited: How were we? What were our predictions? Last Events Before Lockdown; Living at Work -Sports in the Pandemic: successes and failures; bubbles!; mesh hats; zero attempts; games with fans; vaccination of athletes and the ethics thereof -Olympics? -Success of women's sports in 2020 -Hopes and expectations for 2021 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!

Foul Puck Ep. 039 - Pandemic Pod Redux

The Hosts Branch Out, aka screaming about sports that are not basketball, hockey, or baseball - refreshing!! Contents Include: Volleyball: AU; picking a fav; team make-up; charitable connections Sports Media: The Last Dance; Cheer Squad; Cheer Cheerleading: is it a sport?; types and culture; an abbreviated history; injuries Fantasy Sports: what, who and how; Feelings; skill vs luck Tales from the Negro Leagues: Seamheads and the stats of the NL 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!

Foul Puck Episode 038 - Team Laser Sharks

In which we revisit grade school science concepts about solar heat and the melting point of ice. Contents include: NHL: science is magic; plague league NBA: plague impact; Jazz victory trajectory; Warriors rollercoaster Bandwagon fans: gatekeeping and fan privilege; the effect of bandwagon fans on sports fandom MLB: allowing fans, how can this possibly go wrong Brief Political Diversion Regularly Scheduled Feminist Rant (w/ thanks to Roxanne Gay) Athletes Unlimited: a new league with new vision and new rules 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!

Foul Puck Episode 037 - Science is Magic

Foul Puck Podcast: Sportsball for the Rest of Us

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