H&R Block President and CEO Jeff Jones was a catcher on the baseball team at Fork Union Military Academy and then went on to the University of Dayton, but the…
At the end of the Oklahoma City Thunder’s game two playoff win over the New Orleans Pelicans, a TV reporter prepared to interview the star of the game, OKC’s guard…
A new NBA Playoffs is upon us, and with it comes the opportunity to watch the ageless LeBron James compete not only for another championship with the Los Angeles Lakers…
Imagine being a kid playing baseball in a little league All Star Game, and all the fans are cheering. But there’s one fan in particular who you really want to…
Imagine . . . in the short space of just four months, two of the most coveted coaching jobs in college sports at two iconic programs became vacant. Can you…
This was supposed to be Caitlin Clark’s weekend, the moment when women’s college basketball’s greatest scorer was rewarded for making believers of new fans and confirming to current fans that…
The student bodies at four universities—Purdue, NC State, Alabama and UCONN—won’t have gotten much sleep these past couple of weeks, what with all the NCAA basketball their teams have been…
Barely a handful of games have been played in this version of March Madness before it was guaranteed that your bracket was busted. And the biggest balloon popper of them…
The NCAA Division 1 Basketball Tournament’s March Madness is upon us, and participants in office pools everywhere in this great land of ours have submitted their brackets and are preparing…
The scene was a familiar one. A time-out was called and Purdue University’s men’s basketball Head Coach Matt Painter gathered his troops to outline a play late in a game…
What do you do when you’re one of the greatest football players of all time and you find yourself sitting next to one of the greatest football coaches of all…
This last week we watched the NFL Combine, the annual job fair that draws college football players to interviews wearing shorts and t-shirts and carrying gym bags rather than briefcases.…
I watched the great NFC Championship game between the San Francisco 49ers and Detroit Lions, which San Francisco won 34-31, with complete fascination. By the end of the game, two…
Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs and Josh Allen of the Buffalo Bills are the new Tom Brady and Peyton Manning. They are two quarterbacks who are the unquestioned…
The beginning of a new year offers the opportunity to reflect on the topic of change and how it relates to leadership. Big-time college sports have never been more driven…
More than a decade ago, I had a speaking engagement at Chevron that was part of a whole day devoted to leadership development, one in which I happily participated. One…
On January 1, we can all look forward to tuning in to the College Football Playoffs to watch Alabama, Michigan, Texas and Washington duke it out on the field. And…
In professional football, cadence refers to all of the verbal signals delivered by the quarterback before the start of the play. They include numbers, colors and other coded words quarterbacks…
We’re taught at an early age to appreciate what we have and not waste our lives wishing for greener pastures. However, sometimes the grass – or Astroturf – really is…
Sunday night’s NFL contest was billed (sorry Buffalo) as the biggest game of the weekend and one of, if not the, biggest games of the NFL season when the unbeaten…
The king is dead. Long live the king, right? Not so fast, tennis fans. After the brilliant and charismatic Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz defeated one of the three kings of tennis,…
Practice makes perfect, right? Not so fast. I think the more accurate version of that truism is that perfect practice makes perfect, and the Tampa Bay Rays offer living proof…
It seems some stories will always maintain their place in the public consciousness; Michael Oher’s is one of them. Even though his NFL career is over and the film version…
The chances are pretty good that unless you’re a golf fanatic you’ve never heard of the guy who just won the world’s oldest and one of its most prestigious tournaments,…
