Author: Don Yaeger

During Pat Geraghty’s senior year in high school, his football team was playing in the league championship game. With seconds left on the clock, they were down 14-13 to a team that had won nine consecutive league titles. Geraghty led a 90-yard drive down to the five-yard line, well within field goal range, and they lined up to kick the game winner.

Once, in a high school baseball game, Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph was playing second base. When the ball was hit toward the first baseman, Randolph did what he practiced every day and backed him up. The ball eluded the first baseman, so Randolph snagged it and threw the runner out at second. When he returned to the dugout, he was surprised to be met with an enthusiastic round of “atta boys” and pats on the ba...

If you walked into a gym and saw Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets working out, you would say, “He’s gotta be a basketball player.” Jokic is nearly 7-feet tall, so you’d be right. What you would most likely not say is, “What a physique … kind of reminds me of a young LeBron James or Wilt Chamberlain!”

If you’ve been watching the NBA playoffs, you have undoubtedly seen the ads featuring players who repeat the tag line, “It’s not a thing.” The “thing” in question refers to the notion that players play harder during the playoffs than the regular season.

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 sport he learned his most valuable leadership lesson from was basketball. This fact will seem less surprising when you realize the basketball figure from whom he learned the lesson was Mike Krzyzewski, the former Duke and U.S. National coach known as Coach...

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 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. However, by the time she got the mic pointing toward her interviewee, she found herself interviewing a whole posse of players who had their arms around each other. The reporter quickly regained her composure and asked Gilgeous-Alexander...

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 but also a chance to add to his legacy which he hopes will be as the greatest basketball player of all time, bar none. And that includes the person whose name has long been synonymous with the acronym GOAT (greatest of all time), Michael Jordan.

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 make proud—your father. The game is on the line, and it’s your turn to come up to bat. It’s the stuff that dreams are made of.

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 imagine the number of resumes that must have flooded the Athletic Director’s office at the University of Alabama when Head Coach Nick Saban announced in January his retirement from the team he had led to six national titles?