BBCollective presents the 1st Annual Grover’s

Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts present the Grovers, a dual celebration and desecration of the best and worst respectively; in the actions of athletes, power brokers and political figures over the last calendar year. Broadly modeled off the soon forthcoming 93rd Academy Awards intended to award excellence in film in a year where there was minimal excellence in film, the sports and political world unearthed a similarly finite level of greatness but a true abundance of abhorrence. The namesake, shared by both our first and only non-consecutive term President and a Hall of Fame dead-ball era pitcher reflect the intersectionality of our nomination process and “ceremony.” Best and worst male and female in a leading role in the collective sport and political domain, a best and worst movement/event, and a nod for distinguished breakthrough round out our categories, but not before deciding who would conclude our hypothetical recreation of the Oscars’ “in memoriam” segment, in either disgrace or tribute. In contrast to the mutual admiration society that is the Oscars, this was a process and presentation that though much funnier (intentionally) than what Anne Hathaway and James Franco presided over in 2011, was genuinely committed to both highlighting the few in our content realm that inspire and vilifying the countless worthy that do the very opposite.