Rivalries Matter: The Best of the Rest - a podcast by Andrew, Ed, and Zak

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’ve gone long on the best rivalries across both sports and politics, and as rivalries are the lifeblood of sports and a heated, spirited discourse drive the best (and perhaps worst) of our politics, there are frankly too many left un-discussed. Contained within: the NFL’s longest, most storied story of contention; a four-year NBA-tilt from the 20th century reinvigorated in this postseason cycle; podium disagreements involving the presidential and punditry; a legendary modern sweet science quadrilogy and a back-page squabble pitting columnist versus Hall of Fame ace. Six great stories, six great rivalries falling just short of episodic contention recounted, this week. All of that, plus another trilogy of rants: Ed sings the “Deacon Blues,” where they’ve got a name for the winners in the world, and it’s not the moral high ground of athletic programs at the University of Alabama, aka the Crimson Tide; Andrew lays a skeptic eye on boxing’s latest young star with a look to his potential and a nod to his troubled history; and finally Zak champions the actions of Zooey Zephyr, and the significance of elected officials of minority color, sexuality and identity in this country under siege by LGBTQ-phobia.

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