Author: Don Yaeger

The LSU Tigers won a national baseball championship this weekend by beating the Florida Gators 18-4 on Monday in game three of the College World Series. And while that’s not in itself as big a deal as it might be had another team won – LSU has won six previous championships – this seventh title offers a business lesson we simply cannot ignore.

It was a moment most people wouldn’t have caught, but it positively screamed the two words that have come to define this year’s NBA Finals between the Miami Heat and Denver Nuggets: Heat Culture. Yes, some pundits and T.V. analysts roll their eyes when the two words come up because they think “culture” is a bunch of hooey. But as the Heat’s talismanic on-floor leader, Jimmy Butler, might say via his Twitter account,...

It’s NBA Finals time. The time of the year when everyone tunes in to watch their favorite stars go head-to-head in the series that matters most. The star power can be so strong that even if we have a rooting interest in one team, we want the series to go to seven games just so we can watch a LeBron or a Steph or a Caleb at work!

The deserving Brooks Koepka won the 2023 PGA Championship in Rochester, NY, but the weekend belonged to a far lesser-known competitor named Michael Block, who finished the tournament in fifteenth place. Block is the head golf pro at Arroyo Trabuco Golf Club, Mission Viejo, CA. Club pros are very good players—likely the best most of us will ever meet—but the vast majority of them have accepted the fact that they are...

There are some people you meet and every time you are in their presence you learn something new. I was in Grayson Stadium in Savannah (GA) on Monday night for two reasons. The first was to watch a baseball game between the home team, the Savannah Bananas, and the visiting Florence (KY) Y’alls. The second reason was to celebrate the release of a book by Bananas Owner Jesse Cole that I had the good fortune to help him...

Every team and every member of a team has their ups and downs, but a leader’s responsibility is to keep his or her downs to a minimum and, more often than not, set the right tone for the rest of the team. Consistency is one of the hallmarks of true leadership (and greatness) precisely because, as we all say, “as goes the leader, so goes the team.”

History was made last weekend, and one person watched it with a different perspective than most of the millions worldwide who followed the NFL Draft. That person was Warren Moon, the former quarterback for the Houston Oilers and 2006 inductee into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Memphis Grizzlies player Dillon Brooks wants badly to be a bad man but doesn’t realize that before you can be bad, you have to be very, very good—otherwise, you risk humiliating yourself. In the 2022-2023 NBA Playoffs now underway, Brooks has shown just how true this maxim can be by taking it upon himself to attempt getting inside the mind of one of the most dominant players on the planet: Los Angeles Lakers forward...

The Los Angeles Clippers’ Russell Westbrook and Phoenix Suns’ Chris Paul played against one another in the opening game of the NBA playoffs Sunday night. Both of these veteran point guards have been perennial All-Stars during their careers and the kind of players who can light up a scoreboard. But in Sunday night’s game, the baskets weren’t falling easily for these two future Hall of Famers.