4. Can sports beat COVID?

On this week’s episode of the Bill Bradley Collective, the hosts analyze the few pros and many cons in how each major North American sports league plans to return to action by month’s end and later this fall. Topics of player health, competitive integrity, scheduling ambition and geographical relocation are the backdrop to a conversation that considers the relative feasibility of each league’s plan and whether any of these re-openings are ultimately worth the potentially serious personal cost involved. But first the rants, where Zak profiles Keisha Bottoms’ efforts to combat the surge in Atlanta COVID-19 cases against opposition from disgraced Trump-ally Gov. Brian Kemp, Andrew describes the sole beneficiary and real victims of food service in the NBA bubble, and Ed reflects upon July 10th, 2020, perhaps the worst in a long few months of dark days in America, with a special nod to the alleged “Most Magical Place on Earth.”