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Podcast: BBCollective
Episode: Running from Himself: The Lawrence Phillips Tragedy
Description: 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. Phillipsβ 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 de...