2022 Midterms: Now, Next and Beyond

Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts wrap (for now) their coverage of the 2022 Midterm elections. What happened with the results, what to expect over the next 24 months, and where we’ll be when the 2024 Presidential election arrives are the entrees for this buffet of political discourse. Trump’s seemingly anti-Midas touch, the makeup of the impending Trump/DeSantis showdown for control of the national GOP, and how Dems proceed having avoided a fully-formed Red Wave while still conceding control of the House are your prominent talking points on today’s show. But we’re back together in-person again and that means one thing: a trilogy of sport-centric rants to balance our politically-driven main topic. Zak leads off with a bit of justified angst pointed towards the daily cable television takeover of the legalized sports betting cabal; Ed draws down on Fox’s continued relationship with disgraced ex-NCAA and NFL head man Urban Meyer in light of his continued presence across the network’s college football telecasts; finally Andrew brings it home with his latest bit of part-homer, part-realist assessment of a UConn men’s basketball team looking the part of world-beater at this season’s quarter-mark.