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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 University. That’s right, letter grades from the Collective faculty for long-time Senator, two-term Vice President, and incumbent frosh President Biden as we enter the second year of his administration. Biden i...

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 group of Donald Trump stormed the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. in the interest of overturning his defeat in the previous November’s election, but everything that has happened since. We assess the e...

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 philanthropist Renee Montgomery. This season is centered around women in sports, and there is perhaps no better subject when taking into account off-court purpose and achievement than Montgomery. A standout a...

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 head into the Collective game plan, but fear not, we will be raising the curtain on season six very soon and for the time being Ed has a thing or two to say on the life, career and legacy of Tyrus Raymond...

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 right, because six months ago your hosts drafted their respective choices of the absolute worst the world of sports had to offer and here we are six months later to appraise, debate and litigate all of the ch...

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 entirely to the extended musings, gripes and observations from the members of the Collective troika. This season’s edition totals nine rants, three from each host: one focused on the political side, one sport-c...

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 and political landscapes. In addition to that, this is a long overdue stop on the Collective road show, as we come to you live from the lovely Ledyard, Connecticut home of two great friends and supporters of...

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 Phillips. Phillips’ story is not one for the faint of heart, but one that incapsulates everything this Collective attempts to capture from a sporting, moral, judicial and human perspective. Phillips is best re...

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. Some of the highlights include an opus on the twin brothers patrolling the front court in Kingston, R.I.; reconciling another lost Jets season with some hope reserved for next year’s draft possibilities; and...

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 absolute worst our broken criminal justice system has to offer. We lead with dispatches following the Terence Crawford/Shawn Porter championship fight, covering the high caliber performances of both, the victoriou...

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 expected returns are not great! Tune in, as we take Collective flamethrowers to UConn’s hiring of noted failson (but former NFL coach!!!) Jim Mora, Jr.; the Virginia gubernatorial election with a focus on vi...

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 Chicago Blackhawks, where an investigation into sexual assault allegations dating back to 2010 found that coaches and management chose not to address the matter until season’s end so as not to be a “distractio...

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. Steinbrenner III. Like many bull’s-eyes on the proverbial Collective dartboard, Steinbrenner is born into the dual advantage of white privilege and inherited wealth. His beginnings as a shipping magnate of the Great...

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 week Andrew submits the definitive history of the 1999 Ryder Cup Matches. The bi-annual golf exhibition/corporate outing, profiled in broader strokes on a recent Collective episode, hit an unprecedented feve...

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. Murkowski. Chances are you’ve been inundated with the names of these five U.S. senators through the Trump/Biden presidential news cycles, but why? Because they allegedly straddle the lines of left and rig...

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-field success at the reigns of Utah, Florida and Ohio State are perhaps only overshadowed by Meyer’s unseemly departures from the latter two programs. A tenure in Gainesville that yielded two national titles i...

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 Dykstra. Coming to you from the intersection of the BBCollective and E! True Hollywood Story, “Nails’” footprint in our sporting culture is one of both brief on-field excellence and protracted off-field deli...

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 ceiling? At the center of recent political discourse amidst our latest Congressional standoff, the debt ceiling is something many find hard to grasp (including one of our very own), but fear not, for our res...

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 featuring the top-12 golfers from each side. The Cup’s unique format, where for three days perhaps the world’s foremost individual athletic pursuit is contested collectively, is put under the microscope. The even...

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-field place among the game’s greats are briefly detailed before moving to the events of January 31, 2000, where following a post-Super Bowl XXXIV party in Atlanta, a brawl involving Lewis broke out resulting...

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 chronology of relations between the league and NFLPA sets the table: a look at work stoppages in 1982 and 1987 and the fallout and legacy of each, the famous collection of scab players that crossed the picket...

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 of one Morris “Moe” Berg. Located directly at the three-way intersection of baseball mediocrity, higher education and international espionage, Ed’s chronology of Berg’s life and times render his Collective...

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 stoppage in history, the 1994-95 MLB players’ strike. Twenty-seven years ago to the month, the MLBPA, working amidst an expired collective bargaining agreement for the season’s first five months, walked on Aug...

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 consumers of sport we are exposed to it on a nightly basis: pre/post-show brought to you by “x,” halftime/intermission brought to you by “y,” telecast presented by “z.” Every athlete, franchise, broadcast a...

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 heels of the problematic ’68 affair in Mexico City, these so-called “serene” Olympics are best remembered for the Munich massacre, in which members of the Palestinian Black September Organization took nine memb...