Ben Golliver’s Travels From Inside the ‘Bubble’
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Ben Golliver’s Travels From Inside the ‘Bubble’

Bubbleball: Inside the NBA’s Fight to Save a Season

By Ben Golliver

Abrams Press     

Ben Golliver didn’t just write the first book of his career. He lived it.

The Washington Post’s NBA writer was one of the select few who spent the entirety of the league’s post-shutdown portion of the 2019-20 season in the isolation zone — called the “Bubble” — at Disney World.

In “Bubbleball,” Golliver chronicles the three-months-plus experience of being inside the Orlando Bubble that allowed the NBA to complete its season and saved the league more than $1 billion in revenue.

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On the Pac-12 bowl picture, the Heisman, the Eagles’ curious two-point call and more …
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On the Pac-12 bowl picture, the Heisman, the Eagles’ curious two-point call and more …

A few football thoughts, along with a closing note about golf …

• The lineup of Pac-12 bowl affiliates has been slimmed considerably with the shut-down of the Sun, Holiday, Redbox and Las Vegas Bowls for this year due to COVID-19 complications.

That leaves the Rose Bowl — a CFP semifinal game this year, meaning that the Pac-12 will almost certainly not be a participant — the Alamo Bowl, the L.A. Bowl and the Independence Bowl. The Pac-12 requires a team to be .500 or better to be bowl eligible, so if a team is able to get in its scheduled seven games, it must go 4-3.

The conference has yet to announce a plan for the final weekend of regular-season play (Dec. 18-19).

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