Sports Professors: Aaron Rodgers, Ben Simmons and Pro Sports' War of Words

Global Sport Matters

This week on the show, a deep dive into two high-profile absences in the NFL and NBA. Professors Kenneth L. Shropshire from Arizona State's Global Sport Institute and Scott Rosner from Columbia University discuss the drama surrounding Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers as well as Ben Simmons and the Philadelphia 76ers and what these public feuds between player and team tell us about the state of player empowerment during a chaotic time in American society as well as who stands behind controversial disputes, from the player to the team to the league to corporate sponsors and beyond.

'Sports Professors' is a bimonthly production of the Global Sport Matters Podcast, where professors Kenneth Shropshire and Scott Rosner discuss the 101 on what happened in sports business. Each episode gives you a quick recap of the past week in sports, before diving deeper into a bigger topic to look at what's happening and why it matters.

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