As Major League Baseball prepares for the opening of the Divisional Playoffs, the excitement of October baseball is settling in. For fans of the game, it’s time to turn the…
Not sure how you’d answer, but when someone calls me and offers me the chance to fly 17 hours across the globe to learn from the most bad-ass sports team…
Perhaps no other sentence sums up what Jeff Monken is doing as the head football coach at the United States Military Academy at West Point, better known by their popular…
Let’s just get this out of the way: I’m sick of talking about Antonio Brown. Over it. Done. Bored to death with his antics and his self-destructive ways. But he…
On Thursday, the NFL will celebrate its 100th year by kicking off the 2019 season in style: a prime-time game between the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears, at…
The most shocking sports story of the weekend came right in the middle of an otherwise forgettable NFL preseason game. With one tweet, NFL Network’s Adam Schefter turned the upcoming…
Qualifying for the US Open tennis tournament started this week, and more powerful than the storyline of what surprising talent might be in is when the men’s sides most transcendent…
For the past few days, it’s been quite fashionable to bag on the Oakland Raiders’ Antonio Brown. After all, we’ve learned that his foot problem is possible frostbite from a…
Here’s a leadership truism: you reproduce what you are. I’ve been around enough Great coaches and leaders in the sports world to know that the character of the coach is…
The single-most challenging job in the NFL right now involves a man who doesn’t look like he belongs in the NFL. A little stocky, a little country. His name is…
I recently went to the Pacific Northwest for a business trip, and during my time there I met two interesting and successful athletes. The first one was still in college.…
Sunday afternoon, my wife and children sat next to me, huddled anxiously around my cell phone. We were watching one of the most remarkable finals in Wimbledon history, the epic…
The biggest fireworks of the 4th of July didn’t officially happen on Thursday. Instead, they erupted late on Friday, July 5th, when Kawhi Leonard announced that he was signing a…
“I just felt like there’s been a weight on me.” Those were the words of Naomi Osaka after she lost in straight sets during the first week of the French…
It takes a lot of guts to do what Jill Ellis is doing. The US Women National Soccer coach has guided her squad into the quarterfinals of the FIFA Women’s…
Of all my Sports Illustrated alums/colleagues, few have fascinated me like David Epstein. His path to becoming a writer at the magazine was very non-traditional, and the way he thought…
Tonight, the Golden State Warriors will lace up for a make-or-break game against the Toronto Raptors. Down three games to one in the NBA Finals, the Warriors are on the…
Let’s play a game: pretend for a moment that you’re the leader of a successful franchise, coming off four straight seasons winning at least 60 percent of your teams’ games.…
Not too long ago, I had an interesting conversation with a friend of mine that I’ll call Bob, mostly because that’s his name. Bob works in Vegas as a casino…
Let’s start here: if you want to be great, you’d better have a short memory. That may sound like an odd statement, but it was the major takeaway from the…
Have you ever screwed up so badly you wanted to go into hiding? It’s a natural response to failure. We don’t like to own our mistakes, because they make us…
