Author: Don Yaeger

Chemistry. It’s one of the most complex elements of a team’s success but it’s often ignored or marginalized in favor of talent. Great teams are more than just a collection of talented individuals – great teams strategically combine the strengths and abilities of talented individuals to create a winning combination. Exhibit A: the new-look Cleveland Cavaliers. Just a little more than a week ago, the Cavs were stuck...

The 2018 Baseball Hall of Fame class was announced on Wednesday of last week. Despite there being four players that were inducted into this year’s class, the newest Hall of Famers were not the players people wanted to talk about. Among the four new inductees was one of my personal favorites, Trevor Hoffman. Unfortunately, I didn’t receive a single question about him. Everywhere I went in the days after the announcement...

Dear Commissioner Goodell, I hereby declare myself available for the 2018 NFL Draft. I get it. I probably (ok, certainly) won’t hear my name called among the 250+ players picked during the 2018 NFL Draft on April 26-28. Sadly, there are countless others who have written this letter to Roger Goodell that are in the same boat as me – they won’t hear their name either.

Georgia football head coach Kirby Smart has his work cut out for him in the national championship game tonight. His team faces the Alabama Crimson Tide, a team attempting to win its fifth championship in the last nine years. Oddsmakers don’t believe in him or them. And on the other sideline will stand his mentor, Nick Saban. When Smart’s Bulldogs kickoff this evening, it will be the 12th time one of Saban’s former...