Author: Don Yaeger

With a minute to go in the game, Jameis Winston led the Cleveland Browns to an upset win over their bitter rival, the Baltimore Ravens, this past Sunday. And as his receiver was crossing into the endzone, Winston and the NFL reminded us that you can never have enough quality backups for high-profile jobs.

On Saturday night, playing in extra innings in Cleveland with a trip to the World Series on the line, the New York Yankees’ season was in jeopardy—but the Bronx Bombers knew that anyone of their teammates could turn things around instantly.

A dejected Francisco Lindor, one of the best shortstops in the game, sat in the dugout, holding his head in his hands as the New York Mets hit rock bottom. After being swept by the L.A. Dodgers, capped off by getting crushed 10-3 at home, even the Mets faithful at Citibank Field had written their team off, booing the players as they headed back to the dugout.

On his son’s 20th birthday, LeBron James might have given – and received – the best present of them all.

In one of the rare moments when he was not on the field against the University of Central Florida Knights on Saturday, Travis Hunter, a two-way star for the Colorado Buffaloes, stood on the sidelines. But in that moment, he wasn’t taking a well-earned break. He wasn’t racing to the Gatorade tank. No, television cameras caught Travis standing on the sidelines… counting the number of his teammates on the field during...

Fans across the nation sat glued to the edge of their seats on Sunday thanks to plucky underdogs upending some of the teams already being penciled in for the playoffs. And through it all, we were reminded why Al Pacino’s powerful movie was titled: Any Given Sunday.

Sometimes you have to play on the roughest terrain out there–and you have to keep pushing through it even when you fail. That’s something Steve Hockett knows very well. Long before he took on the role of CEO of Great Clips, Hockett learned about overcoming failure by playing some of the most unforgiving golf courses imaginable.

Next man up. That familiar phrase, barked by countless coaches, holds true even for the scion of a legendary football family.

After hearing that planes had crashed into the Twin Towers, Brooklyn firefighter Stephen Siller never hesitated to respond. While he wasn’t on duty, Stephen rushed to Ground Zero, running through the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, the longest continuous underwater tunnel in the country at more than 1.7 miles, on foot carrying 60 pounds of firefighting gear. Stephen died saving others on 9/11, but his heroism and legacy live...