Author: Don Yaeger

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 greener on the other side. It certainly must seem so to a couple of quarterbacks named Matthew Stafford and Jared Goff.

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 San Francisco 49ers played the 3-1 Dallas Cowboys in a game many believed would be a preview of the National Football Conference championship game.

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, Novak Djokovic, at Wimbledon, many were quick to anoint a new ruler in the men’s game. Alcaraz certainly seems to have everything it takes to assume the Purple once worn by Djokovic, Federer and Nadal.

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 of this maxim every time they warm up before a game.

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 of his childhood, The Blind Side, captured the nation’s heart, the man on whom this Academy Award-winning film was based is continuing to write his story. The next chapter will cover his efforts to positively impact young people who are like he was...

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, The Open Championship. This year’s Open was played at the Royal Liverpool Golf Course in England, and the winner was a Georgia native named Brian Harman. You’d be forgiven for not knowing who he is because, as one scribe phrased it, while not a star,...

The great stoic philosopher and former professional pugilist Mike Tyson once observed that “everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” By the time he retired, some 44 lucky boxers were knocked out by Iron Mike’s plan-changing punches.

I watch more sports than the average person but I don’t tend to watch sitcoms or dramas about sports; still, when everyone began talking about Ted Lasso, I found myself immediately drawn to the show. Sadly, as the third season concluded recently, it seems the show – and the many leadership lessons it teaches – is set for reruns.

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.