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Podcast: BBCollective
Episode: - La Lutte pour les Droits des Athlètes
Description: 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 they are acknowledged and treated as such across sports by different leagues and institutions. Among the angles explored include the franchise/athlete dynamic in today’s NBA era of player empowerment; the racial overtones that exist there in contrast to the current self-inflicted situation a discontented present and all-time NFL great finds himself in; the power of player unions in affording their members their rights; and the circumstances behind a...