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“A podcast about the intersection of sports and politics. Each episode will feature rants from the hosts as well as a deeper dive into a main topic that examines how sports and politics are connected in our society”
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The Power of Bloodlines: The Roosevelt Chronicles from 2023-12-05T10:51
The Power of Bloodlines: The Roosevelt Chronicles
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Democracy in Dismay: Imagining the Impact of 2024's Election from 2023-11-28T12:12
Democracy in Dismay: Imagining the Impact of 2024's Election
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Mastering the Greens: A Lone Star's Dynasty from 2023-11-21T11:45
Mastering the Greens: A Lone Star's Dynasty
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Sitting on Top of the World: The Story of 'Shipwreck' Kelly from 2023-11-14T11:20
Sitting on Top of the World: The Story of 'Shipwreck' Kelly
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Calls, Cameras, and Cheating: Inside Michigan Football from 2023-11-07T11:16
Calls, Cameras, and Cheating: Inside Michigan Football
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“I am such an idiot.”: The Mickelson Meltdown from 2023-10-31T10:05
“I am such an idiot.”: The Mickelson Meltdown
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A Players Voice: Empowerment in Sports Media from 2023-10-24T10:05
A Players Voice: Empowerment in Sports Media
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Electile Dysfunction: A Speaker Selection Sh*t Show from 2023-10-17T10:57
Electile Dysfunction: A Speaker Selection Sh*t Show
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From Founding Fathers to Political Heirs: The Adams Legacy from 2023-10-10T10:22
From Founding Fathers to Political Heirs: The Adams Legacy
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When Worlds Collide: The Octagon Meets the Squared Circle from 2023-09-26T10:49
When Worlds Collide: The Octagon Meets the Squared Circle
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Heartbreak in Green & White: Navigating Sports' Emotional Terrain from 2023-09-19T11:00
Heartbreak in Green & White: Navigating Sports' Emotional Terrain
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Glory Days: A Look Back at Washington's Dynasty from 2023-09-12T09:45
Glory Days: A Look Back at Washington's Dynasty
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The Umpire of History: Baseball's Forgotten Influencer from 2023-09-05T10:53
The Umpire of History: Baseball's Forgotten Influencer
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Whistle While They Debate: Trump's 7 Dwarfs on the Debate Stage from 2023-08-29T10:51
Whistle While They Debate: Trump's 7 Dwarfs on the Debate Stage
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Carbon Chronicles: From Causes to Cures of Climate Crisis from 2023-08-22T10:51
Carbon Chronicles: From Causes to Cures of Climate Crisis
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The Final Whistle: Discussing the Last Hurrahs in Golf, Football, and Beyond from 2023-08-15T10:41
In this episode of The Bill Bradley Collective, join us as we dive into the notable 'last hurrahs' of this year in both golf and college football. We'll unpack the closing chapters o...
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Beyond the Script: Uniting the Arts Against AI from 2023-08-08T10:39
Step into the world of Hollywood turmoil as writers, producers, and musicians join forces in an unprecedented strike against artificial intelligence. Join us as we delve into the complexities of...
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Battle for the Crown: Reds vs. A's Rivalry from 2023-08-01T10:35
Step back in time to the exhilarating 1970s, where baseball history was written with passion, rivalry, and unforgettable moments. In our podcast we delve deep into the epic showdown between the ...
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Time Capsule of Climate: Pre-Pandemic Takes from 2023-07-25T10:21
Take a journey back in time with this vintage episode from the vault, as the Bill Bradley Collective delves into a wide range of topics that continue to resonate today. Join us as we explore pre...
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Debating Destiny: Unraveling the Lincoln-Douglas Dialogue from 2023-06-05T10:00:57
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Welcome to the Block Party: Everyday People in Sports and Politics from 2023-05-31T00:59
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts seek to define what constitutes an “every-man” (or -woman) and then examine some notable examples of these every-day folk ...
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Three Major League Decisions from 2023-05-16T10:47:11
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week we reflect on a week in the courtroom across the country, and three significant decisions involving the presumptive Republican nomine...
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Rivalries Matter: The Best of the Rest from 2023-05-10T00:23:45
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts highlight some of the best of the rest in rivalries across sports and politics. This season at the top of every month we’v...
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NFL's 📺 The Odd Couple: Al Davis & Pete Rozelle. from 2023-05-02T10:41:34
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where it is the first Tuesday in May and that means one thing (no, not the tired *NSYNC meme), its rivalry week and In this installment we present th...
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Debt Ceiling: The Now, the When, the Future from 2023-04-25T10:30:44
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week in light of recent news we revisit the seemingly evergreen news cycle encircling the American debt ceiling. In a prior episode we set...
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Red Pilled: The Right-Wing War on Abortion Rights Rages On from 2023-04-18T10:30:03
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts examine the fallout following a U.S. District Court decision in Texas suspending FDA approval of abortion drug mifepristo...
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“Free Agency”? In this NFL? from 2023-04-12T22:23:31
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where with the NFL Draft merely a couple of weeks ago and the free agency period wading in the deep end of the pool, your hosts examine the very rela...
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Fear, Loathing and Northeast Elites: The Yankee/Red Sox Saga from 2023-04-04T10:45:20
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where it is rivalry week, and with baseball back in action what better athletic struggle of epic proportion to profile than that between the Boston R...
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Ides of March: College Basketball at the Crossroads from 2023-03-21T10:15:58
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where March Madness has arrived and this week your hosts set out to forecast the future of the college basketball. With the transfer portal humming a...
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The Original Frenemies: Adams and Jefferson from 2023-03-14T10:45:36
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where it is once again rivalry week with a conversation about the complicated relationship between Founding Fathers John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. ...
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Misadventures in the Forest City: the 1899 Cleveland Spiders from 2023-03-07T11:30:39
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where it is another installment in our critically acclaimed series of Dollop-style bonus episodes. This week Ed presents the story of the 1899 Clevel...
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From the Peanut Farm to the Presidency from 2023-02-28T11:30:24
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts deep dive the life and presidency of James Earl “Jimmy” Carter Jr. With Carter recently placed in hospice care in this the 99...
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Federalism is a Failure from 2023-02-21T12:00:31
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your examine the ongoing fallout from a February 3 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. That evening a Norfolk Southern freight tra...
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Pod of the Century (by way of the Philippines): Ali Vs. Frazier from 2023-02-07T11:15:54
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week it is the second in our season-long, monthly deep-dives focusing on this season’s main-topic: rivalries. Boxing has been the stage for m...
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The Bill Bradley Collective Book Club from 2023-01-31T11:40:31
Welcome to the first meeting of the Bill Bradley Collective Book Club. On this week’s episode your hosts put their literary critic hats on and share their favorite books on both sports and politics...
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O-VER-RA-TED! O-VER-RA-TED! from 2023-01-24T11:45:30
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts tackle everything “overrated,” across sports and politics. It is a draft-ish episode this week, as the boys informally sel...
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NFL Picks, this Week, Tomorrow & Forever from 2023-01-17T11:30:22
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where the NFL postseason has arrived and football is the focus. Tune in this week as your hosts put their prognosticating hats on with picks and pred...
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Post-Insurrection: Where Do We Stand Two Years Later? from 2023-01-10T23:45:37
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective and what is surely one of our most jam-packed episodes. The focus this week is a look at the continued fallout from the January 6, 2021 attack on the ...
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The Game: Michigan/Ohio State and Why Rivalries Matter from 2023-01-03T11:45:02
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where it’s out with 2022 and in with 2023 and our season eight premier. Rivalries in both sports and politics will be the focus of our next six months, ...
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This Aged (not so) Well: the Worst People in Sports from 2022-12-27T11:00:06
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where we have reached season’s end and you know what that means. That’s right, it is time to look back to our July draft of the worst people in sports a...
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Rantapalooza V from 2022-12-20T12:00:07
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week we proudly present our bi-annual tradition unlike any other: Rantapalooza. That’s right, it is the Collective’s late season spectacul...
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Off the Rails: Strike Averted from 2022-12-13T03:24:25
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts examine the ongoing labor dispute between freight railroads and workers. A tentative deal was struck between the rail comp...
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Sportswashing: The NFL in the Spin Cycle from 2022-12-06T11:25
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week we present the final episode in our season-long examination of sportswashing. All season we’ve examined sportswashing as government mani...
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2022 Midterms: Now, Next and Beyond from 2022-11-30T02:23:59
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts wrap (for now) their coverage of the 2022 Midterm elections. What happened with the results, what to expect over the next ...
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As the Mavs Turn: a Big 3 Soap Opera from 2022-11-22T14:32:53
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where it is a bonus week here as Ed continues on his Parisian honeymoon excursion. Today Andrew recounts the story of the Dallas Mavericks of the ear...
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Best & Worst Couples in Sports/Politics from 2022-11-15T11:45:49
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where wedding weekend has come and gone and our resident newly-wed is Paris-bound as a honeymooner. But not before, and by before we mean RIGHT befor...
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Putting Fake Money Where Our Mouth Is from 2022-11-08T11:40:04
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where Election Day 2022 has arrived. To preview today’s enormously consequential midterms, your hosts have each been given $1,000 in fake money with ...
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Panic on the Tarmac: When WWE met the KSA from 2022-11-01T11:45:26
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where it is a seasonal focus week. That’s right, join us for a conversation show examining the relationship between World Wrestling Entertainment, th...
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Our Pastime on the Brink: the 2022 World Series from 2022-10-25T11:15:43
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where we are a mere two days away from first pitch of the 2022 World Series, the very topic of week’s conversation. The baseball postseason has been not...
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Be Very Afraid: We Have Unisex Bathrooms from 2022-10-18T10:45:59
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where with both Halloween and Election Day fast approaching, what better time for a conversation about the scariest possible outcomes and scenarios c...
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CTE: Collective Trauma Endurance from 2022-10-11T10:45:31
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where in light of the situation enveloping the Miami Dolphins and QB Tua Tagovailoa, this week your hosts examine the NFL’s ongoing struggle with con...
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Fat City: Heavyweight History in Sensitive Settings from 2022-10-04T10:45:01
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week it is the latest installment in our season-wide focus on sportswashing, with the spotlight focused on boxing. Perhaps the sport’s pre...
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Who will run the show? from 2022-09-27T10:30:55
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts dive into election season with a preview of four of this November’s most consequential gubernatorial races. Tune in for an...
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Miller Time from 2022-09-20T10:15:31
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts deep dive the history of the Major League Baseball Players Association and the recent inclusion of minor league players in...
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Get your passports ready: American Leagues in foreign countries from 2022-09-13T10:59:34
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week we are sports-centric, with a main topic focused on the potential future for international expansion of Major League Baseball, the NB...
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China Syndrome: the NBA and Eastern Authoritarianism from 2022-09-07T10:45:46
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week we continue our season-long focus on sportswashing with a conversation centered on NBA business interests in China. Basketball explod...
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College players get NIL? from 2022-08-30T11:00:28
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week college football is back and with it a conversation about the current state of compensating collegiate athletes. In this brave new wo...
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We did this before the Dollop!! from 2022-08-23T10:50:11
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where it is a special bonus week documenting the intersection of Rafael Trujillo’s rise to power in the Dominican Republic and the legendary career o...
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The Donald’s Gambit from 2022-08-16T11:00:11
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week the road to the November midterms continues as your hosts examine the primary landscape after a busy week of elections. The Collectiv...
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Low Block to the Cell Block; A Russian Hostage Crisis from 2022-08-09T11:00:56
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week we focus on the ongoing plight of American basketball star Brittney Griner. Unjustly detained in Russia for months under suspect char...
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Getting their Kicks: Oligarchical Interests in Soccer from 2022-08-02T10:45:53
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts unveil the second installment of our season-long concentration on sportswashing with an examination of global soccer’s rol...
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Cheatstrong: The Story of the Tour de France from 2022-07-26T11:00:52
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where in late July we are in the proverbial dog days of both summer and sports. Unless you’re an MLB trade deadline follower, an NFL training camp de...
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The Road Not Taken: 3rd parties in American politics from 2022-07-19T11:00:06
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts set course on a journey in search of answering a simple, yet nuanced question: do “third” (political) parties matter? Hist...
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LeBron, Harden, Kyrie, Simmons, oh my: Player Empowerment in 2022 from 2022-07-12T11:30:16
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where we are back on the grounds of the Leavy-berg Compound, returned from a one-week road trip to the tremendous Social Bar & Kitchen. We are ba...
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LIV, Laugh, Golf: Lipstick on an Oppressive Pig’s Head from 2022-07-05T11:00:38
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where we raise the curtain on our seventh season, live from the Social Bar and Kitchen in downtown New London, with an examination of the Saudi-bankr...
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Six Months in a Leaky Boat: The Worst of Our Politics from 2022-06-28T11:00:48
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where we have reached season’s end and you know what that means. That’s right, it is time to look back to our January draft of the worst people in po...
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Rantapalooza iV from 2022-06-21T11:42:07
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where we have reached the climax of yet another season, our sixth, which now ties us with iconic television series including The Sopranos, Lost, Oz a...
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Revolution Title IX from 2022-06-14T11:00:15
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where we begin to tie the bow on this season celebrating women in sports with a conversation about Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. We a...
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The King of Her Court from 2022-06-07T11:15:25
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where it is our regularly scheduled second drop on a back-to-back, belly-to-belly twin bill: a conversational profile about tennis legend and iconic ...
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Where has The Magic gone from 2022-06-06T11:15:29
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where we have for you the rare Monday drop: a subject we just had to get some takes off on that didn’t quite fit into tomorrow’s episode. When a man ...
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Midway to the Midterms from 2022-05-31T11:00:02
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where it is primary season and your hosts are here to break down all of the results and narratives on the heels of primary elections that have set th...
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#FreeBrittney from 2022-05-24T11:00:07
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts examine WNBA star Brittney Griner’s ongoing detention in Russia following a dubious arrest on drug charges earlier this ye...
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The 2030s: A Sporting Landscape Odyssey from 2022-05-17T11:00:10
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts offer a look to the future with a nod to the present: a conversation about the state of American sports’ so-called “big fo...
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Head of the Class from 2022-05-10T11:00:30
Welcome again to the Bill Bradley Collective, where it is part two of this week’s double drop: a conversation profiling legendary Tennessee women’s college basketball coach Pat Summitt. Over a c...
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Welcome to Gilead from 2022-05-09T12:00:36
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where we present the rare Monday drop: a conversation show on the fallout of a leaked Samuel Alito Supreme Court draft striking down the decision ren...
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Elon and his Muskovites from 2022-05-03T11:00:44
Welcome again to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week we examine billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk move to acquire social media giant Twitter and the broader picture of billionaire influen...
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Draft: Political Movies from 2022-04-26T11:00:52
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where in deference to the forthcoming NFL Player Selection Meeting, your hosts present the inaugural Political Movie Draft. You’ve heard us draft the...
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From the Locker Room to SCOTUS - Lisa Olson & Misogyny from 2022-04-19T11:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week we continue our season long feature on women in sports with a profile of sports journalist Lisa Olson and her place in the NFL’s prob...
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🎶🎤 “Sorry Ms. Jackson (You Are For Real)” 🎼🎵 from 2022-04-13T11:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts shine a deserved spotlight on the latest appointee to the Supreme Court, one Ketanji Brown Jackson. But first, we set the ...
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FORE! A Coup Incoming from 2022-04-05T11:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where it is a Dollop-style bonus week, as Andrew presents the story of golf icon Jack Nicklaus’ failed endeavor at removing then-PGA Tour commissione...
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presents the 2nd Annual Grover's from 2022-03-29T11:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week we reward the best and worst in sports and politics over the last year with the 2nd annual Grover Awards. First a troika of red carpe...
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Fear Strikes Out For Good from 2022-03-22T11:00
Welcome again to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts survey the evolving relationship between sports and mental health awareness. Rants set the table, where Ed lays out the a...
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MLBPA: The Union takes another L from 2022-03-15T11:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts examine the recently settled Major League Baseball lockout. The ninth work stoppage in league history and first since 1994...
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Best of Frenemies from 2022-03-08T12:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where it is seasonal profile week as we present a deep dive on the lives of and rivalry between tennis greats Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert. Tw...
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Brian Flores: A Profile in Courage from 2022-03-01T12:00
Welcome again to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts revisit the NFL’s Rooney Rule in the wake of Brian Flores’ lawsuit against the league alleging racial discrimination of m...
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WHYYYYY WHYYYYY MEEE!!! from 2022-02-22T12:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where after a brief in-person pause we are here to put out the torch on these Winter Olympics with a look back on the scandal that embroiled the 1994...
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At least there was no biting: Holyfield-Romney I from 2022-02-15T14:56:03
Another one of our Dollop inspired bonus episodes, where Zak tells the story of a truly classic American boxing match.
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The Winter of Our Discontent from 2022-02-08T12:00
Welcome to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts examine the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing and the many complications surrounding these games. A cloud exists over these Olymp...
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Jack Donagahy's Worst Dates from 2022-02-01T12:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week we profile one of history’s most significant African American women, Condoleezza Rice. National security advisor during President Geo...
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Freshman Grades @ W.H.U. from 2022-01-25T14:36:43
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts put on their professorial hats with a critical assessment of President Joseph R. Biden’s freshman year at White House Univ...
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A Mob is After Our Democracy from 2022-01-18T12:00
Welcome again to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts tackle the January 6th, 2021 attack on the United States Capitol one year later. Not just what happened that day, where a...
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Renee Montgomery #woman #huskie #champion #dream from 2022-01-11T12:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week we present our much anticipated season six premier with a profile of women’s basketball great, broadcaster, business executive and ph...
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Cobb: Baseball’s Labor Bellwether? from 2022-01-04T12:00
textWelcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week we present something of a bittersweet Dollop-style bonus in lieu of our regularly scheduled season premier. COVID reared its ugly...
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2021 - Worst People in Sports Draft from 2021-12-28T12:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week we present the epilogue to season number five, also known as the results of our annual draft of the worst people in sports. That’s ri...
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Rantapalooza III from 2021-12-21T14:11:22
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week the panel bids farewell to season five with another installment of Rantapalooza. That’s right, our biannual extravaganza devoted enti...
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We’ve got 🎁 🎁 from 2021-12-14T12:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where the holiday season is upon us, and to celebrate your hosts unpack a sleigh load of gifts for the naughty and nice, alike, across the sporting a...
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Running from Himself: The Lawrence Phillips Tragedy from 2021-12-07T12:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week in the last of our season-wide profiles through the lens of criminal justice we discuss the life and times and crimes of Lawrence Phi...
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Thanks & No Thanks from 2021-11-30T12:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where it is Thanksgiving week and in observance your hosts share what they are thankful and not thankful for as we begin to wind down season five. So...
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Requiem for our Justice System from 2021-11-23T12:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where today we wrap our collective heads around a week that provided us with both the very best that boxing has to offer while showing us the absolut...
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Changes in Attitudes, Unchanges in Altitudes from 2021-11-16T12:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts take the temperature of some of the recent changes in leadership across sports and politics. To the shock of no one, the e...
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Workplace Culture in Major Sports from 2021-11-09T13:00
Welcome again to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts examine three organizations across three different sports all overtaken by scandal in recent weeks. We start with the Chi...
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George Steinbrenner: The original Trump from 2021-11-02T11:00
Welcome again to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week in deference to our season-wide theme of criminal justice and sports, your hosts examine the life and crimes of George M. Steinbrenn...
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“The Arrival of the Golf Hooligan” from 2021-10-26T11:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where it is a bonus week! That’s right, join us for the newest addition to our catalogue of critically acclaimed Dollop-inspired installments. This w...
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The Myth of the Moderate from 2021-10-19T11:00
Welcome again to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts channel their combined furor in the direction of the elected political moderate of 2021. Manchin. Sinema. Romney. Collins...
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Urban Blight from 2021-10-12T11:00
Welcome again to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts deep dive the career and present legacy of collegiate and for the time-being NFL coach Urban Meyer. His tremendous on-fie...
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A Cocaine Car Wash from 2021-10-05T11:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week as part of to our season-long theme of criminal justice in sports we deep-dive the life and crimes of baseball ne’er do well, Lenny D...
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What the Fuck is the Debt Ceiling? from 2021-09-28T11:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts attempt to answer the question many economic neophytes have had through our latest news cycle: what the f--- is the debt c...
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The "Winona" Ryder Cup from 2021-09-21T11:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week, in the run up to this year’s event, we examine the Ryder Cup matches, a biannual contest between the United States and Europe featur...
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To Catch an “Alleged” Murderer from 2021-09-14T11:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts examine the 2000 murder trial of future Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Lewis. Lewis’ acclaimed career and distinguished on-fi...
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Labor Day the Collective Way from 2021-09-07T11:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week in observance of Labor Day your hosts put the relationship between the NFL and labor rights and conditions under the microscope. A ch...
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To Catch (but not hit) a Spy from 2021-08-31T11:00
Welcome to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week we present yet another of our award-winning Dollop-style in-season bonus installments, as Ed unveils the remarkably strange but true story...
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A Called Strike: Baseball, 1994 from 2021-08-24T11:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where with the dog weeks of the sporting calendar upon us, your hosts dive back into time with an examination of perhaps the most impactful labor sto...
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Wall Street: Sports Never Sleep. from 2021-08-17T11:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week we are coming to you from the intersection of Lambeau Field and the Fortune 500: an examination of the corporatization of sports. As ...
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- "They’re All Gone": Munich ‘72 from 2021-08-10T11:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts hop in the DeLorean and head back to 1972 with an examination of that summer’s Olympic Games. Hosted by Munich on the heel...
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Profile - The Story of The "Hurricane" from 2021-08-03T10:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where today we present the second episode of this special double-drop week, centered around the life and impact of late American-Canadian middleweigh...
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5 - A Case Of The Mondays from 2021-08-02T11:00
Do not adjust your calendars, yes it is Monday and yes, we are the Bill Bradley Collective kicking off your work week with a special Monday drop. Following a busy and tumultuous week across the ...
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Toky-no? & Our uncertain Olympic future. from 2021-07-27T11:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week the Games of the XXXII Olympiad, more commonly referred to as the 2020 (2021?) Summer Olympics are underway, and your hosts are here ...
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- Our Draft Choices from 2021-07-20T11:00
This week on the Bill Bradley Collective, your hosts venture into some familiar waters. You’ve heard us draft our favorite sports movies, draft our respective choices for the worst people in spo...
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The War on Drugs is back on Track from 2021-07-13T11:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where with the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo somehow set to commence, we examine the suspension of American track and field sprinter Sha’Carri Richar...
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OJ & America from 2021-07-06T11:00
This week the Bill Bradley Collective ushers in season five on location before a live audience of friends, family and listeners at New London’s own Draft Choice. The topic of conversation center...
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- Worst People In Politics Draft Results from 2021-06-29T11:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week we close the curtain on season four and revisit our selections from January 2nd of the worst people across politics. It would not be ...
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Bonds’ Bushes and...Balls’ from 2021-06-22T11:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where it is Father’s Day weekend and we are here to commemorate it with a deep dive into paternalism at work across the spectrums of both sports and ...
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Rantapalooza II from 2021-06-15T11:00
Welcome back...to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week you are cordially invited to the second installment of what we call Rantapalooza. That’s right, three fists to the face of sports a...
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- La Lutte pour les Droits des Athlètes from 2021-06-08T11:00
Welcome once again to the Bill Bradley Collective, where the topic de la semaine concerns the rights of athletes, specifically their rights as laborers, performers and/or contractors and how the...
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- # “resistance” from 2021-06-01T11:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week we dive into the deep-end of The Resistance. Formally adopted as liberal opposition to the Trump presidency, the #resistance movement...
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- “Playoffs?! Playoffs?! You kidding me?” from 2021-05-25T11:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, “Yes Jim Mora, we are talking about THE playoffs.” your hosts preview the now-underway NBA and Stanley Cup Playoffs. The matchups to watch, the narra...
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Titleless in Seattle from 2021-05-18T11:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts grant super-producer Brandon’s request for the weekend off following his FUCKING COLLEGE GRADUATION(!!!) with another pre-...
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Live @ The Social... Time to Clean our Inbox from 2021-05-11T11:00
Coming to you via remote from the back patio of New London’s own The Social Bar and Kitchen, we welcome you back to the Bill Bradley Collective. In the outdoor company of friends, listeners and ...
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Our First Collective Q & A from 2021-05-10T11:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where we present yet another bonus Monday installment as something of an appetizer for what’s to come in tomorrow’s regularly scheduled release. List...
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Not Maywether v Logan Paul from 2021-05-04T16:56:27
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts are three imaginary fists in the face of the politics of boxing. The Paul brothers, faded MMA stars and the forthcoming bu...
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Bonus - NFL Draft Talk from 2021-05-03T11:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where here you can sink your teeth into an abbreviated, perhaps bonus “episode,” as your hosts tackle all things 2021 NFL Draft-related. The Collecti...
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The Collective’s Eleven from 2021-04-27T11:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts appraise the landscapes of both the fantasy sports and sports gambling industries in the U.S., and the ever-closing inters...
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BBCollective presents the 1st Annual Grover’s from 2021-04-20T11:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts present the Grovers, a dual celebration and desecration of the best and worst respectively; in the actions of athletes, po...
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Pay Inequality in Women's Sports from 2021-04-13T15:44
This week on the Bill Bradley Collective, women are rightly at the forefront, as your hosts present something akin to a “state of the union” on the condition of the top women’s sports in the U.S...
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Clarence Asked a Question from 2021-04-06T11:00
This week on the Bill Bradley Collective, your hosts tackle the just-commenced NCAA v. Shawne Alston Supreme Court case, following the opening oral arguments of this past week. The history and (...
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The Fire-Fighting, Tackle-Missing, Rose-Stealing Colorado Phenomenon from 2021-03-30T11:00
This week the Bill Bradley Collective presents another installment of our in-season Dollop-inspired features, as Zak documents the life and times of Ryan Sutter. Coming to you from the intersect...
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- Our First Year: Sports Politics, & a Podcast from 2021-03-23T12:37:27
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts reflect on both a full year in the COVID-19 pandemic and the completion of our first year as a podcast. The conversation&n...
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- Racism Boston & Sports from 2021-03-16T11:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts examine the complicated history of Boston sports and race. The focus centers on the Red Sox and Celtics franchises, but no...
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6 - The Lesser Marshall Brother from 2021-03-02T13:00
This week on the Bill Bradley Collective, your hosts dive into the Games of the XI Olympiad, better known as the 1936 Summer Olympics. Contested in Nazi-controlled Berlin, Germany, these games a...
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- The Lesser Marshall Brother from 2021-03-02T12:00
This week on the Bill Bradley Collective, your hosts dive into the Games of the XI Olympiad, better known as the 1936 Summer Olympics. Contested in Nazi-controlled Berlin, Germany, these games a...
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A Bad Strike Call from 2021-02-23T12:00
This week the Bill Bradley Collective present another installment of our Dollop-style bonus episodes. Join us as Ed documents the rise and fall of late MLUA (Major League Umpires Association) ex...
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5 - Why an All Star Game? from 2021-02-16T13:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week the panel examines the NBA’s decision to go forth with their annual All-Star game March 7, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Your hosts r...
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- Why an All Star Game? from 2021-02-16T12:00
Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week the panel examines the NBA’s decision to go forth with their annual All-Star game March 7, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Your hosts r...
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4 - Trump 2: Impeachment Boogaloo from 2021-02-09T13:00
This week the Bill Bradley Collective present Trump 2: Impeachment Boogaloo, the most electrifying sequel since the famed 1984 companion to the motion picture classic, “Breakin’.” Donald Trump i...
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- Trump 2: Impeachment Boogaloo from 2021-02-09T12:00
This week the Bill Bradley Collective present Trump 2: Impeachment Boogaloo, the most electrifying sequel since the famed 1984 companion to the motion picture classic, “Breakin’.” Donald Trump i...
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Profile - Henry “Hank” Aaron from 2021-02-02T12:00
This week on the Bill Bradley Collective, your hosts consider the life, career and legacy of recently passed baseball icon, Henry “Hank” Aaron. The subject of this season’s individual profile, A...
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3. The Long National Nightmare is OVER!!! from 2021-01-26T13:00
This week on the Bill Bradley Collective, your hosts put the first four days of the Biden administration under the microscope and evaluate some of the early returns. The inauguration itself is g...
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- The Long National Nightmare is OVER!!! from 2021-01-26T12:00
This week on the Bill Bradley Collective, your hosts put the first four days of the Biden administration under the microscope and evaluate some of the early returns. The inauguration itself is g...
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Things that have Gone on Tooooooo Long from 2021-01-19T12:00
As we eagerly count down the final days, hours and minutes of Donald Trump’s first and god-willing last term as President, in tribute, the Bill Bradley Collective presents their desired collect...
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2. Insurrections and Interceptions from 2021-01-12T14:00
This week, the Bill Bradley Collective presents its 2020 NFL regular season in review. Join us as each of your hosts nominate a best and worst moment, as well as the moment that best encapsulate...
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- Insurrections and Interceptions from 2021-01-12T13:00
This week, the Bill Bradley Collective presents its 2020 NFL regular season in review. Join us as each of your hosts nominate a best and worst moment, as well as the moment that best encapsulate...
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1. The Supreme Court from 2021-01-05T13:00
It’s Tuesday. You know what that means. That’s right, season four of the Bill Bradley Collective is off and running and how else to ring in the new year than with a conversation about our nation...
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- The Supreme Court from 2021-01-05T12:00
It’s Tuesday. You know what that means. That’s right, season four of the Bill Bradley Collective is off and running and how else to ring in the new year than with a conversation about our nation...
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14. Rantapalooza from 2020-12-29T12:00
This week on the Bill Bradley Collective, the hosts round out season three with the very first installment of “Rantapalooza.” Inspired in part by the eclectic annual concert festival bearing a s...
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13. Vetoed! from 2020-12-22T12:00
This week on the Bill Bradley Collective, your noble hosts are granted the opportunity to wield the kind of power normally reserved for officers of state: the power of the veto. Join your panel ...
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12. Sports in a Biden White House from 2020-12-15T14:37:38
This week on the Bill Bradley Collective, the hosts outline how they expect the transition from a Trump presidency to a Biden White House to impact the sporting world. Among the major topics add...
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B2. The Rules Make No Sense from 2020-12-09T01:00
“Boys, the rules don’t make much sense. But I believe in the rules. Some of us broke them. I broke them. I can’t do this. I can’t win like this.” From Coach Pete Bell’s mouth to our ears, this w...
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11. Is there hope for the hardwood? from 2020-12-01T12:00
This week on the Bill Bradley Collective, the hosts preview the fast-approaching 2020-21 NBA season. Determined to plow ahead bubble-less amidst the still devastating COVID-19 pandemic, the leag...
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B1. It’s All Right - weighing in on Caddyshack from 2020-11-24T12:00
In this intra-season bonus episode, we present the Bill Bradley Collective: At the Movies, as your hosts dive into the famed 1980 sports comedy, Caddyshack. A modest success upon release, subseq...
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10. The Good, The Bad.... It's the NFL. from 2020-11-17T12:00
This week on the Bill Bradley Collective, the hosts review all things NFL as the league’s season passes it’s mid-point. The on-field and off-field, the good (yes, there’s some) and the bad, join...
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9. The Longest (Tues)Day from 2020-11-10T12:00
This week the Bill Bradley Collective comes to you in the immediate aftermath of the 2020 Presidential election being called for Joe Biden, completing a near five-day odyssey of sleep-deprivatio...
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8. The Year is 2024 from 2020-11-03T11:00
Election Day 2020 is here, and as a final supplement to our election coverage, the Bill Bradley Collective consult their proverbial crystal balls and preview what the lay of both the political a...
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7. Dark Clouds Playbook from 2020-10-27T11:00
This week on the Bill Bradley Collective, the panel give their respective impressions on the second and final Presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, before giving way to a broad...
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6. Snakes in the Senate from 2020-10-20T11:00
This week, the Bill Bradley Collective presents “Snakes in the Senate,” a snake-draft style conversation about the forthcoming Senate races where red incumbents find their prospects for (re-)ele...
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5. The Consolation Debate from 2020-10-13T11:00
This week on the Bill Bradley Collective, the hosts weigh in on the Vice Presidential debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris. In assessing the performance of incumbent, candidate and modera...
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4. The 1st Presidential Debate (finally) from 2020-10-06T11:00
This week on the Bill Bradley Collective, the hosts break down the first Presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. The virtually nonexistent good, largely bad and often ugly highli...
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3. Trump, Sports, COVID from 2020-09-29T11:00
This week on the Bill Bradley Collective, the hosts examine Donald Trump’s efforts from high atop his Twitter pulpit to influence how our sporting landscape navigates the COVID-19 pandemic. A co...
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Profile - Tommie Smith & John Carlos from 2020-09-22T14:07:39
On the first of our intra-season bonus episodes, the Bill Bradley Collective discuss the history and legacy of Tommie Smith and John Carlos and their black-glove fisted salute whilst on the meda...
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2. Who are these books aimed at? from 2020-09-15T11:00
This week on the Bill Bradley Collective, the hosts examine the complicated nature of the “tell-all” book, from the three narrative perspectives of insider, embedded journalist, and outside repo...
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1. The Day (most) Sports Stood Still from 2020-09-08T11:00
On the season three premier of the Bill Bradley Collective, the hosts examine protest in sports within the broader context of the national movement. As the NBA, followed by the NHL and select ML...
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The Best of Season 2 from 2020-09-05T11:00
For the best of season two of the Bill Bradley Collective, we highlight a pair of profiles in ignominy, as Zak rakes departed Trump NSA John Bolton for his self-serving swing for the Times’ best...
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B3. Draft: The Worst People in Politics from 2020-09-01T11:00
On our third and final post-season two bonus episode, the Bill Bradley Collective draft whom we consider to be the worst of the worst amongst elected officials in American politics. *Elected* me...
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B2. Draft: Best Sports Movies from 2020-08-25T11:00
For the second of our post-season two bonus episodes, the Bill Bradley Collective play Siskel & Ebert as we draft the best of the best from the sports movie canon. Six movies each, structure...
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B1. Draft: The Worst People in Sports from 2020-08-18T11:00
For our first post-season 2 bonus episode, the members of the Bill Bradley Collective draft teams comprised of whom we deem to be the worst people in sports. Join us as we outline detailed cases...
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8. The Worst #45 in Sports from 2020-08-11T11:00
On the season 2 finale of the Bill Bradley Collective, the hosts examine Donald Trump’s history of involvement in the sporting landscape. The starting point is his association with the USFL, whe...
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7. Hosting the Olympics from 2020-08-04T11:00
.On this week’s episode of the Bill Bradley Collective, the hosts tackle the Olympic Games. Originally scheduled for, in part, this current early August window, we are without the Games of the X...
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6. The "Sportification" of News Media from 2020-07-28T11:00
On this week’s episode of the Bill Bradley Collective, the hosts tackle the “sportification” of news media. We examine how debate culture, expanded use of quantitative research, and intensified ...
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5. Sports in the Middle East from 2020-07-21T11:00
On this week’s episode of the Bill Bradley Collective, the hosts discuss the state of professional sports in Saudi Arabia. We start by describing the financial incentives that resulted in the UF...
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4. Can sports beat COVID? from 2020-07-14T11:00
On this week’s episode of the Bill Bradley Collective, the hosts analyze the few pros and many cons in how each major North American sports league plans to return to action by month’s end and la...
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3. NASCAR in America today from 2020-07-07T11:00
On this week’s episode of the Bill Bradley Collective, the hosts examine the cultural evolution of NASCAR. Their 20th century footprint as a deeply Southern, union-suppressing institution is fir...
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2. Activism in College Sports from 2020-06-30T11:00
On this week’s episode, the panel dives into the recent surge in activism on the part of collegiate athletes. The conversation leads with a hat-tip to a pair of basketball legends and their publ...
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1. Maya Moore from 2020-06-23T12:35:03
On the season 2 premiere of the Bill Bradley Collective, the hosts discuss modern basketball great Maya Moore and her dedicated work towards criminal justice reform. Moore’s extensive basketball...
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The Best of Season 1 from 2020-06-16T11:00
For the best of season 1 of the Bill Bradley Collective, we feature Zak’s conflicted takeaways from the NFL Draft, Ed’s dive into Trump press secretaries and how each mirrors a different member ...
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B4 - The "Fan Man" from 2020-06-09T11:00
For the third and final of our post-season 1 bonus episodes, Andrew submits the 1993 heavyweight title rematch between Riddick Bowe and Evander Holyfield for discussion, a fight best remembered ...
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B3 - "Eddie the Eagle" from 2020-06-02T11:00
For the BBCollective’s second post-season bonus episode, Zak presents the story of Michael Edwards, AKA “Eddie the Eagle,” the English Olympic ski-jumper par not quite excellence who most famous...
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B2 - The Players League from 2020-05-26T11:00
In our first post-season 1 bonus episode, the Collective experiments with a Dollop-inspired main topic, as Ed discusses the formation, brief existence and enduring legacy of the Players’ League....
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8. The Last Dance from 2020-05-19T11:00
For our season finale, the BBCollective tackles “The Last Dance,” the acclaimed 10-part ESPN documentary of the Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls dynasty of the 1990’s. While Jordan rules as the ...
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7. Paying College Players from 2020-05-12T11:00
On this week’s episode, the Collective discuss the myth of amateurism and the NCAA, with a deep-dive on an exploitative culture where coaches, administrators and sneaker executives reap seemingl...
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6. The Kentucky Derby from 2020-05-05T11:00
On this week’s episode, the Collective tackles the cultural legacy and social context of the Kentucky Derby, originally slated for this past weekend in it’s traditional first Saturday of May slo...
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5. Rooney Rule/NFL Draft from 2020-04-28T11:00
On this week’s episode, the panel examines the effectivity, or lack there of, of the NFL’s Rooney Rule in insuring minority candidates a fair shake in the league’s coaching hire process. The pol...
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4. The Masters from 2020-04-21T11:00
This week, the Bill Bradley Collective discuss the highly troubled discriminatory history of the Augusta National Golf Club and Masters Tournament. Both the club’s racial and gender issues are e...
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3. Sports Resurrection from 2020-04-14T11:00
This week, the Collective presents a “resurrection”-themed discussion in observation of Easter Sunday. In a wide-ranging conversation, the hosts first reflect on the Boston Red Sox, in pre- and ...
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2. Bill Bradley from 2020-04-07T19:40:59
For this week’s episode, the hosts dive into the athletic and political lives of their very namesake, Bill Bradley. We discuss the superlative collegiate career at Princeton and ten-year NBA run...
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1. NFL CBA from 2020-03-31T21:27:17
On this week’s episode Andrew talks about his COVID-19 movie choices (including our first guest as Zak’s wife Laura talks about The Cutting Edge), Ed talks about Bill Simmons and Simmons’ claims...
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Best of Season 0. from 2020-03-25T23:29:18
Here are some highlights from our practice season. Where we discuss the loss of a sports icon, Zak discusses the NFL franchise tag, Andrew reminisces on a classic boxing match, and E...
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Bonus - COVID-19 from 2020-03-19T01:33:11
We couldn't wait till our debut episode!!!! The hosts examine the costs COVID-19 has levied upon the sporting world. From the NCAA Tournament to the NBA season, from combat sports to professiona...
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Welcome to the Bill Bradley Collective from 2020-03-16T22:23:26
Andrew, Ed, and Zak introduce themselves and discuss what to expect from the BBCollective
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