Author: Don Yaeger

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 on the planet, I say, “YES!” and then jump on a plane.

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 name: Army. In the five-plus years since Monken has taken command, he’s turned the Cadets into one of the most ruthlessly efficient football teams in America. And he’s done it by embracing the most popular fad of 21st-century sports—analytics. Monken...

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 just won’t go away. And he’s upped the ante by signing with one of my favorite organizations: The New England Patriots.

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 historic Soldier Field. After months of build-up, fans will finally enjoy the beginning of professional football’s 100th season in one of the nation’s oldest and revered football stadiums. Like many older stadiums, Soldier Field has undergone some additions—with...

 

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 football season on its head, creating a tidal wave of confusion that we’re still dealing with today.