Clarence Asked a Question - a podcast by Andrew, Ed, and Zak

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 (false) precedents upon which the NCAA argues to maintain in previous cases in their belief in denying their “amateur” labor force commensurate compensation set the table. Their lone prior appearance before the Supreme Court rendered a decision not in their favor, as the University of Oklahoma’s Board of Regents argued rightly that television rights were not to be determined solely by the whim of the NCAA, but by the individual schools and in more recent times, conferences, throwing cold water on their market belief in a monopsony. In the wake of NIL (name, image, likeness) lawsuits from the likes of Sam Keller and Ed O’Bannon coming down in near unanimity on the side of the college athlete at the federal level the NCAA appears to be down bad, and after opening oral arguments before a court comprised largely of BBCollective villains, your hosts nevertheless come down with a unanimous verdict on how they project this case’s outcome. Before we delve into the legalese, we rant; Ed unveils his latest work, Matt Gaetz: A portrait of the Trump-sycophant as rapist and pathological liar; Andrew calls on golf’s power brokers to put their money where with mouth is in making a good-faith effort to combat voter suppression in Georgia; finally Zak documents Kim Mulkey’s transcendent job at turning her Baylor team from victim to foil following her crash-course in how not to mitigate a fatally contagious disease.

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