If you watched the marathon that was the 2023 Masters Tournament on Sunday, you may have noticed that as the camera followed leaders Brooks Koepka and Jon Rahm, who were…
The next time your account team gets surprisingly chosen to make the pitch to the Big Account and the CEO tells you, “Well done!” or the next time the CEO…
In the NCAA Men’s National Basketball Tournament, March 2023 has been all about upsets. As the tournament heads into its final weekend, the four teams left standing includes perhaps one…
Imagine you’re an accounting firm trying to land a local client and find yourself going head-to-head with PwC, which is also vying for their business. What would your response be?
The memory still makes Steve Brass squirm. Growing up in Yorkshire, England, where Brass says, “the humans were outnumbered by the sheep 2-to-1,” Brass was made captain of his school…
The next time you’re sitting in a meeting, and one of your ambitious colleagues throws out an idea that seems “out there”/unconventional/grandstanding, try to resist the temptation to roll your…
One team’s epic collapse is another team’s come-from-behind victory. Or, to state the matter differently, the most underrated player on your team just might the sixth man or woman commonly…
If playing soccer at Notre Dame taught Denise Karkos anything, it was that she always, always could find 10 more minutes to push herself further. After two hours of practice—and…
The world was focused on pop star Rihanna, and without question she offered one of the more extraordinary performances ever, one that was watched by millions around the world. But…
On Saturday, LeBron James moved within 36 points of breaking the NBA career scoring record in the Los Angeles Lakers’ 131-126 loss to the New Orleans Pelicans. He has every…
On Sunday, the Kansas City Chiefs did far, far more than win a conference championship and the right to go to the Super Bowl in two weeks. No, by beating…
Sunday’s game pitting the Buffalo Bills against the Cincinnati Bengals was supposed to be the game that banished all of the Bills’ ghosts past, present and future. It was going…
In a Tale of Two Cities, the great English novelist Charles Dickens wrote that “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” and his description of…
Okay, so maybe this year’s College Football National Championship game wasn’t one for the ages. It certainly wasn’t if you felt no particular rooting interest for either the University of…
We don’t normally like to make predictions in this space, but here’s a prediction ahead of next Monday evening’s NCAA National Championship Football game between the defending National Champion Bulldogs…
Phil Gallagher came to believe at a relatively early age that emotional intelligence is a better guide for leadership than IQ and he has made it the hallmark of his…
San Francisco 49ers third-string quarterback Brock Purdy is living proof that irrelevancy lies in the eyes of the beholder. After both the 49ers’ starting and backup quarterbacks went down with…
When team USA was beaten 3-1 by the Netherlands in Saturday morning’s knockout round, my favorite team was out of the World Cup. Immediately, I adopted a new favorite team—a…
I live in Tallahassee and, admittedly, am a fan of the local university team, Florida State. But covering sports professionally for 30 years has made me cautious when it comes…
When Jon Scheyer and Kyle Neptune took over, respectively, the head coaching jobs of men’s basketball programs at Duke and Villanova, they replaced two long-time coaches who had together amassed…
Leave it to an English major/quarterback to provide this week’s business lesson from the world of sports. The player of note is Geno Smith, who attended West Virginia University and…
You may know Dr. Condoleezza Rice because of her role as Secretary of State, National Security Advisor, and Director of Stanford’s Hoover Institution, but did you know she was the…
There were just seconds to go in the Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Kansas City Chiefs playoff game Sunday night when the Steelers called their last timeout, hoping to score a touchdown…
