Author: Don Yaeger

Playing in the national spotlight to kick off the new NFL season, the Detroit Lions toughed it out to pull off an overtime victory over the Los Angeles Rams Sunday night. Running back David Montgomery took control of the game in overtime, gutting it out for 45 yards in the final drive and breaking through the defense to score the decisive touchdown.

While the college football season is only a week old, one of the sport’s most storied programs looks more like a pretender than a contender, thanks to its coach refusing to embrace change.

When the chairman of Disney Experiences, Josh D’Amaro, was growing up, basketball was his primary sport and he was good enough at it that in his senior year of high school he was invited to play in the Tri-Valley League All-Stars game in Massachusetts. What might have been an occasion of immense pride for D’Amaro was actually a bit more complicated, as he explained in a recent interview.

The Denver Broncos cut two-time Pro Bowl Safety Justin Simmons earlier this year, and he took the unusual step of buying an ad in the newspaper and thanking the organization for letting him play there for eight seasons. He even said being cut gave him time to reflect and gain new focus.

Imagine training your life for one moment. A single event. A race that’s over in less than 10 seconds. You have trained for years for this one “moment” – and then it’s over.

Kate Johnson may have graduated from the Wharton School and currently serves as the president and CEO of Lumen Technologies, but she learned one of the most important lessons of her business career when her husband coached her to become a better skier.

With a strong French team making a charge in the final moments of the game to determine the Gold medal at the Olympics this weekend, the members of the U.S. men’s basketball team, some of the best players on the planet, gave themselves to “The Devil.” That was the name French broadcasters had bestowed on US great Steph Curry.

The greatest gymnast of all time taught the world an important lesson this week: sometimes you just need to enjoy the moment.

How about this for motivation? Four years ago at the Tokyo Olympics, American swimmer Torri Huske missed out in winning a medal in the 100-meter butterfly by .01 of a second. Compounding the pain she must have felt on that day, she had been out front for most of the race.