Rick Reilly, Sportswriter and Author of Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump

09/09/20 • 75 min

No matter your political bent it’s easy to concede that Donald Trump has been an unusual president. In this latest episode of Both Sides of the Ball, Bo and Farrell have a wide-ranging conversation with Rick Reilly, the 11-time Sportswriter of the Year award winner and author of Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump, to try to gain more insight into Trump the golfer and man. Reilly tells one funny story after another from his book about Trump cheating to win on the golf course. Bo and Farrell also share their own Trump stories in this unfiltered conversation with one of the best-known sportswriters in America.

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