Bill Bradley Collective

22/02/2023

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 train carrying, among other freight, hazardous materials (namely vinyl chloride) derailed in northeastern Ohio following mechanical failure exacerbated by a lack of ECP brakes. The hazardous materials on board the train were subjected to a controlled burn, causing hydrogen chloride and phosgene to be released in the air causing an evacuation of local residents and a crisis situation. Tune in as your hosts evaluate both the local and federal response to the accident; the connection between this crisis and the broken rail strike covered last season; the right wing news media echo chamber decrying the situation as a failure of the Biden administration; and finally the state of our federal government and it’s functionality. But first we rant, as Zak pillories the uncouth behavior of Republican members of Congress during the 2023 State of the Union Address; Andrew laments Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy once again being left on the outside looking in at an NFL head coaching position; and finally Ed welcomes Tulsi Gabbard to the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination with a recap of her heretofore ignoble behavior.

‎Show BBCollective, Ep Federalism is a Failure - Feb 21, 2023

31/01/2023

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. Remember making New Years' resolution to read more? Trying to get several months head start on curating that summer reading list? Tune in and get the jump on both as the panel induct their first class of literary essentials to the Collective library.

But first, we rant: where Ed lambasts the pathetic submissiveness of the NHL owners in standing down in the fae of more anti-woke drivel from FL Gov. Ron DeSantis; Zak investigates the firing of a Division 3 basketball coach and the bigger picture of coaching culture at the youth levels; finally Andrew submits more evidence in support of the NFL's media indomitability via the PGA Tour's shifting of a flagship early tournament.

‎Show BBCollective, Ep 805 - Jan 31, 2023

18/01/2023

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 predictions for the sport in 2023. Super Bowl predictions and hot takes for Wild Card Weekend start things off, but there’s plenty more on top of that, including what to expect at the top of this spring’s Draft, who will take the quarterbacking reins of the Collective’s beloved New York Jets, and what 2023 may have in store for Patriots’ head coach Bill Belichick and his offensive staff. But first, we’re ranting: as Ed ponders the political capital of Grover Norquist in the context of the Republican Party in 2023; Andrew details Vince McMahon’s unseemly return to WWE and what it means for the company’s future; and finally Zak outlines the hilariously dubious history of New York congressman George Santos amidst new revelations.

‎Show BBCollective, Ep NFL Picks, this Week, Tomorrow & Forever - Jan 17, 2023

06/01/2023

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26/07/2022

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 devotee or fan of European club soccer friendlies abroad, there’s not much on the docket. But there is an event of great prestige; just concluded, on the global sport landscape, the Tour de France that is the focus of this week’s conversation. Cycling’s premier event dates back to the infancy of the 20th century, and the early history leads this discourse. A near century’s worth of competition precedes American interest in the event before native son Greg LeMond pockets three tour wins in the late 80s. Interest wanes post-Lemond amidst doping scandals that mar the event from it’s very beginning. Until we get to Lance Armstrong, who becomes one of American sport’s great celebrities and icons on the back of seven consecutive tour wins, victories later exposed as being done under the veil of performance enhancing drugs. The Tour is a massive European summer sport sensation, but viewed with great cynicism by American viewers in a post-Armstrong world. Where the tour stands today concludes our conversation.

But FIRST, a trilogy of rants, leading off with Zak taking aim at the Susan Collins/Joe Manchin led Reform of Electoral Count Act and the future of electoral politics in our splintered world; Ed fires off on Washington whatever the f**k they call themselves owner Dan Snyder and his off-shore yacht occupancy in the wake of a Congressional subpoena into long-term cultural indiscretion; and in closing Andrew pens a eulogy for Europe’s Ryder Cup side, as pillars disqualify themselves to the LIV outfit and a (briefly) once proud captain joins their ranks.

‎Show BBCollective, Ep Cheatstrong: The Story of the Tour de France - Jul 26, 2022

29/06/2022

Come join us for a live show at The Social in New London on Saturday, July 2nd, at noon! We'll be kicking off our season and taking fan questions as well.

07/06/2022

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 activist/advocate Billie Jean King. Few, if any, athletes can boast the combined on- and off-court level of achievement that can King. An owner of the rare career singles’ Grand Slam and 12 singles’ Slams in total, a further 27 were won in combined women’s and mixed doubles. In a pre-Evert/Navratilova landscape, King, along with Margaret Court, were the standard-bearers of the time. Perhaps King’s most notable on-court accomplishment also created great waves off the court, as her dominant 1973 victory over veteran male Bobby Riggs in the greatly publicized “Battle of the Sexes” in the wake of Title IX brought women in sports to a level heretofore not realized. King’s activism both within and outside tennis, founding the modern Women’s Tennis Association, advocating both for tennis to appeal to a broader socioeconomic audience and for commensurate pay on the women’s side, but also fighting the broader fight for societal gender equality and championing LBGTQ activism as the first openly out prominent female athlete in history, lay the groundwork for this profile. On-court bonafides and off-court altruism tell the broad strokes, but join us also for the details of the palimony case that led to King’s coming out and perhaps the greatest spotlight shown on the Virginia Slims’ brand since Fatboy Slim’s “You’ve Come a Long Way Baby.” Billie Jean King is both a legend on the tennis court, and as a heavy puncher in the fight for gender and sexual equality. No more apropos a subject for a profile in this the season of women in sports, on the Bill Bradley Collective.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-king-of-her-court/id1503626266?i=1000565503794

‎Show BBCollective, Ep The King of Her Court - Jun 7, 2022

17/05/2022

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 four” and the chances of an upstart brand or property moving into that esteemed tier. Here’s what we know. The NFL is king. The NBA continues to broaden the gap between themselves and everyone else. Major League Baseball is flush with regional network dollars and some early season buzz following an offseason lockout. The NHL is enjoying nice early returns in the first year of their content partnership with ESPN and Turner (TNT/TBS). The purpose of this exercise is to evaluate the prospects of those outside this exclusive group in entering that level of recognition a decade from now. Can the PGA Tour overcome it’s clear demographic shortfalls? Will NASCAR ever ascend back to the status it enjoyed in the early 2000’s, or will it be the more globally branded Formula 1 that more successfully expands into the American marketplace? MLS appears a long shot, but will the EPL or another domestic European league punch soccer’s ticket into the American top four? The WNBA? Combat sports and the rise of female athletes in the UFC and boxing? The Collective surveys the field and assesses what the American sporting hierarchy will look like a decade from now.

But first, yet another epic trilogy of rants: as Zak revels in the early season success of his New York Mets with a look at their recent multi-pitcher no-hitter and how such a feat compares to the more conventional solo no-no; Ed decries right-wing sob stories over the peaceful protest demonstrations outside the homes of Supreme Court justices behind leaked efforts to overturn Roe v. Wade; and finally Andrew lights a candle in memory of the 2021-22 Philadelphia 76ers, with condolences to Joel Embiid and all sorts of smoke for an alleged superstar guard and professed coaching legend. A full-on, full-length smorgasbord of sports, politics, prognostication, vitriol and some laughs, this week on the Bill Bradley Collective.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-2030s-a-sporting-landscape-odyssey/id1503626266?i=1000561797961

‎Show BBCollective, Ep The 2030s: A Sporting Landscape Odyssey - May 17, 2022

14/04/2022

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 table with a rant or three, as Ed details the pending fate of Lizelle Herrera, charged with murder in the wake of Texas’ on-going legislative anti-abortion crusade; Andrew decries some of the coverage surrounding NFL QB Dwayne Haskins’ tragic and untimely passing, and Zak censures the right wing characterization of the Disney Company as supporters of so-called child “grooming” in response to the media behemoth’s opposition to Florida’s newly instituted anti-LGBTQ laws. This provides something of an unfortunate transition to this week’s main subject, newly appointed Supreme Court justice Ketanji Brown-Jackson. Much of the rhetoric from the Senate Judiciary Committee’s GOP contingent focused on Brown-Jackson having a perceived “softness” on crimes involving pe******ia, a case most mainstream news outlets as well as your hosts disapprovingly fact checked. The newest justice’s background and bonafides are also detailed, as well as the abhorrently partisan nature of her confirmation hearings, a vote that saw three(!) GOP senators vote to confirm Brown-Jackson to the bench, and how/if her appointment may shift the ideological makeup of the court in the years to come. A historic week for the Supreme Court, a seismic achievement for black women in our government, and more calamity brought to you courtesy of the Republican Party, all laid out in both great and grave detail this week on the Bill Bradley Collective.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sorry-ms-jackson-you-are-for-real/id1503626266?i=1000557468472

‎Show BBCollective, Ep 🎶🎤 “Sorry Ms. Jackson (You Are For Real)” 🎼🎵 - Apr 13, 2022

11/03/2022

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. Two of the greatest to ever pick up a racket, male or female, Navratilova and Evert each re-wrote the record book during their era and the only one stopping each of them from greater success was the other. As their careers largely intersect one another, the on-court rivalry between the two is one of the greatest across gender or sport. Join us as we examine the rivalry and the women behind it. Contrasting public images, physical appearances and on-court playing styles belie a rivalry perhaps best remembered for the class and sportsmanship of the combatants and the enduring friendship that it helped create. While we celebrate both Evert and Navratilova for their achievements both on- and off-court, it is a conversation about a relationship not without some controversy, as both of our subjects have recently made public statements regarding the competitive rights of trans-gender athletes. Catalysts for a tennis boom in the 1970’s and 80’s, Evert and Navratilova represented themselves and their sport with dignity and grace, while many of their male contemporaries were better known for their boorish and outspoken personalities. The professional rivalry and personal relationship between Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova is a lengthy chapter in the history of women in sports, and that chapter is examined this week on the Bill Bradley Collective.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/best-of-frenemies/id1503626266?i=1000553293234

‎Show BBCollective, Ep Best of Frenemies - Mar 8, 2022

08/03/2022

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02/03/2022

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 minority coaches and executives. Flores’ lawsuit comes on the heels of his termination as Dolphins head coach and his discovery, thanks to former boss Bill Belichick, that the New York Giants had settled on Bills coordinator Brian Daboll to be their next coach BEFORE Flores was scheduled to interview for the same position. Another coaching cycle has passed, and again many well-credentialed minority candidates have been passed over, yet again in the case of many. It is not merely a hiring issue, but a retention one, as well, for teams have been proven to give black coaches far less margin for error and minimal in the way of consideration should a minority coach be seeking a second opportunity. Finally your hosts predict what effect the Flores suit will have both on the obsolete Rooney Rule and the NFL hiring process for minority candidates.

But first we rant, as Zak leads off with both an extended tribute to the heroism of the brothers Klitschko as they take up arms on behalf of their native Ukraine in the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War and a broader look at the war in its first week; Ed takes a figurative flamethrower to despicable anti-LGBTQ legislation in Florida and Texas targeting trans children gay and trans children and their families; finally Andrew examines the hiring of disgraced ex-Baylor head football coach Art Briles by of all places, former HBCU powerhouse Grambling State.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/brian-flores-a-profile-in-courage/id1503626266?i=1000552570501

‎Show BBCollective, Ep Brian Flores: A Profile in Courage - Mar 1, 2022

25/02/2022

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 games involving Tonya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan and a collection of goons straight out of the blackest of Hollywood comedies. Presumptive Olympic favorite and so-called America’s sweetheart Kerrigan arrived to a national trial run and left the victim of a telescopic baton-assault to the leg concluding a plot “masterminded” by Harding’s ex-husband Jeff Gillooly and friend/Harding bodyguard Shawn Eckardt. What ensues is a controversy that made women’s figure skating front page news around the world and the lead story of those forthcoming Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. The assault and the eventual Olympic results wherein Kerrigan takes silver and Harding misses the podium altogether take a backseat in the conversation to an examination of the contrasting pre- and post-Olympic lives of Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding and more importantly the deeply problematic manner in how the media and public estimate what constitutes the feminine ideal, both then and now.

But first, being back in person, a trio of proper rants: where Andrew orates the hopeful epilogue for the Saudi Golf League with a look at Phil Mickelson’s characteristically brazen comments defending his support for the mercifully doomed golfing off-shoot; Ed sizes up the prospective Republican nominees in the running for Michigan’s Attorney General position in light of their shared and woefully archaic stance opposed to a landmark 1965 Supreme Court ruling; and finally Zak attempts to reconcile Russian skater Kamila Valieva’s doping violation with American sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson’s ban from last summer’s Olympics and the forever inequities of the IOC.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whyyyyy-whyyyyy-meee/id1503626266?i=1000551874754

‎Show BBCollective, Ep WHYYYYY WHYYYYY MEEE!!! - Feb 22, 2022

27/01/2022

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 inherited a nation embroiled in a pandemic and fresh off the heels of the most divisive and polarizing figure the White House has ever hosted. Curve or no curve, what say we on Biden: immigration, foreign policy, COVID and more. Do underwhelming returns rest at the feet of perhaps Delaware’s greatest son or at those of his disgraced yet still viable and widely visible predecessor? Father and son go hard at one another and it is great. But first, there will be rants, as Ed examines the latest premature playoff departure of presumptive MVP and noted COVID truther Aaron Rodgers through the lens of yet another self-serving media exit interview; Zak juxtaposes Ed’s QB critique with a profile in acclaim of Collective favorite and all-around righteous dude Ryan Fitzpatrick; and finally Andrew calls foul on retired basketball great John Stockton for disgracing his alma mater by way of failure to comply with Gonzaga’s indoor mask mandate.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freshman-grades-w-h-u/id1503626266?i=1000548949773

‎Show BBCollective, Ep Freshman Grades @ W.H.U. - Jan 25, 2022

11/01/2022

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 at the University of Connecticut and a multi-time WNBA champion, her on-court career is outdone by a second act that is virtually unprecedented for an athlete. Amidst the wave of racial unrest that enveloped the country during the summer of 2020, Montgomery pressed pause on her basketball career and later retired in deference to social and racial justice initiatives. Join us as we discuss everything Renee Montgomery has achieved in her post-basketball career: from her role in the Atlanta Dream’s support of Raphael Warnock’s successful Senate bid, being the catalyst behind the downfall of sworn Collective enemy Kelly Loeffler, contributions to the Black Lives Matter movement and her Atlanta community, and to eventually being one of three owners of the aforementioned Dream, those are just a few of the boxes Montgomery has checked in her brief retirement from the court. In a space where the content can often be dour and downbeat particularly in light of some recent episodes, the story of Renee Montgomery is every bit as inspiring and encouraging. A model athlete, activist, and executive, Montgomery is as impressive as public figures come, and makes for a true high note with which to kick off our examination of women in sports, this season on the Bill Bradley Collective.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/renee-montgomery-woman-huskie-champion-dream/id1503626266?i=1000547546635

‎Show BBCollective, Ep Renee Montgomery - Jan 11, 2022

04/01/2022

Unfortunately, our season opener was delayed due to Covid-19 hitting the Collective but enjoy this bonus episode we had saved for just such an occasion.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cobb-baseballs-labor-bellwether/id1503626266?i=1000546877183

‎Show BBCollective, Ep Cobb: Baseball’s Labor Bellwether? - Jan 4, 2022

28/12/2021

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 choices. If you are new to this space, here is how we roll: fantasy/snake-style Zak, Ed and Andrew drafted a curated and researched collection of their believed most-deficient characters occupying the sporting landscape. Athletes, coaches, administrators, owners and media personas, alike; with a nod to who they were that 4th of July weekend and a consideration of how they may age for the worse throughout the duration of 2021. The selector announces their pick and stumps for their choice, and the other Collective members reckon each pick on a 10-point scale. At the end we tally the totals of each drafter’s selection valuations and crown a winner for he who drafted the most esteemed collection of the worst sporting figures of 2021. Want an insider tip? Join us live and on location this Sunday, January 2nd at the official sports bar of the Bill Bradley Collective, New London’s own the Draft Choice. We will be launching season number *six* with a seasonal profile we cannot wait to unveil, but also, our annual draft of the worst people in politics. It’s like Marty McFly with the Sports Almanac, knowing your beloved hosts’ choices six months in advance of your fellow but non-live participatory listeners AND with the added bonus of craft beer, craft cocktails, delicious food and taking in a football Sunday with real-time takes from the Bill Bradley Collective family. While we hope to see you all next weekend, to every listener out there that may not be able to trek to New London, we wish you nothing short of the healthiest and happiest of New Years. Stay positive, test negative, join us and stay tuned for more great content from the Bill Bradley Collective in 2022.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2021-worst-people-in-sports-draft/id1503626266?i=1000546322777

‎Show BBCollective, Ep 2021 - Worst People in Sports Draft - Dec 28, 2021

15/12/2021

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 the podcast, Shannon and Byron. If you came to this summary to snoop for presents you are out of luck, as you’ll have to hit play to unwrap what’s under the Collective Christmas tree. But our select recipients include many of the names oft-critiqued in this space, including the worst of our elected congresspersons, a pair of disgraced cable news anchors, the Collective’s favorite coach/punching bag, and golf’s most iconic figure.

It all starts with some rants, as Zak outlines the abject callousness behind an online entrepreneur’s move to lay off 900 employees via teleconference on the eve of the holidays; Ed details the inane and dangerous fight being waged by appointed officials in Missouri and elsewhere over imposed mask mandates; finally Andrew examines coach Mario Cristobal’s move to Miami and the unseemly source affording his contract and the buyouts of both he and his predecessor.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/weve-got/id1503626266?i=1000544925433

‎Show BBCollective, Ep We’ve got 🎁 🎁 - Dec 14, 2021

10/12/2021

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 remembered as a prodigious yet highly-troubled collegiate running back at the University of Nebraska and a controversial early first round pick of the then-St. Louis Rams, but the narrative of this man goes far deeper. Join us for a chronological narrative of a simultaneous football phenom and serial criminal. From an adolescence marked by abuse and neglect at the hands of parents and the foster-care system both, to being allegedly “saved” by the so-called constructs of football and almost endless opportunities at salvation granted by coaching greats the likes of Osbourne, Vermeil and others, and to when said chances run dry and incarceration for violent crimes becomes inevitable, the Collective does their best to cover every angle of Phillips’ life. Lawrence Phillips as victim of a broken foster care system, a compromised collegiate and pro football infrastructure and a victim of racial criminal justice inequity: yes. But with serious consideration given to the undue justice given his many victims, namely one Kate EcEwen, and for others whom seem grossly neglected and almost forgotten, we also attempt to bring light to, this week on the Bill Bradley Collective.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/running-from-himself-the-lawrence-phillips-tragedy/id1503626266?i=1000544204784

17/11/2021

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 victorious businessman/huckster Glenn Youngkin; fissure in New York’s Democratic Party following a Buffalo mayoral election pitting moderate incumbent and GOP-favored Byron Brown versus progressive socialist India Walton who had originally defeated Brown in the party’s primary; and finally Jason Kidd, a curious choice by the Dallas Mavericks as head coach for obvious on-the-court reasons but also considering Kidd’s history of domestic violence coupled with the organization’s recent problems regarding sexual harassment and improper workplace conduct. But it’s not all bad, as we conclude with a toast to Boston mayor-elect Michelle Wu following a victory that made her the first woman and person of color to be elected mayor of the city on a hill.

But first some rants, as Zak leads us off with, to put as mildly as one can, a scathing rebuke of Dave Portnoy and his merry band of twisted sycophants for their efforts to downplay graphic accounts of sexual impropriety committed by the aforementioned scumbag; Ed details the hypocrisy of the Baseball Hall of Fame in the case of member Bud Selig and how it could be that many of his meal tickets, namely Barry Bonds, continue to sit on the outside of Hall induction; and finally Andrew comments on the myth of Coach Mike Krzyzewski and the shameless self-indulgence of the athletic farewell tour.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bbcollective/id1503626266?i=1000542091964

‎Show BBCollective, Ep Changes in Attitudes, Unchanges in Altitudes - Nov 16, 2021

09/11/2021

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bbcollective/id1503626266?i=1000541229972

03/11/2021

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 Lakes eventually leads to ownership of the New York Yankees in 1973. Until his death in 2010, George assumes a massive celebrity persona in New York City, not unlike a certain businessman who failed all the way upwards to eventually become President. Like Donald Trump, Steinbrenner’s outspoken brand of cult of celebrity somewhat overshadows a life of serious white-collar crime. A tale of two cases: illegal contributions to then President Richard Nixon in 1974 under the veil of “bonuses” to shipbuilding cohorts that results in a paltry fifteen month suspension from commissioner Bowie Kuhn, and what was a mere 2-year suspension in 1990 from Fay Vincent for employing honorable gambler/snitch Howard Spira in a vain attempt to accrue unsavory information on future Hall-of-Famer and noteworthy Steinbrenner free-agent signee Dave Winfield. A “Seinfeld” caricature, Miller Lite pitchman and presiding “boss” of 7 world championship Yankee teams seems to mask a far more unsavory legacy. This is the story of George Steinbrenner: authoritarian, thug, bully and criminal, this week on the Bill Bradley Collective.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/george-steinbrenner-the-original-trump/id1503626266?i=1000540498636

‎Show BBCollective, Ep George Steinbrenner: The original Trump - Nov 2, 2021