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On Sunday night the kickers for both the Arizona Cardinals and the Seattle Seahawks missed “easy” field goals which would have given their teams victory – and so the game ended in a tie.  We have all missed “easy” opportunities in whatever sport we play.  The greatest players in the world all “fail” at one…

On her television show Ellen DeGeneres recently surprised one of her audience members, Amber Thomas, a student at Boston University.  Ellen called her down because she knew that Amber was working 70 hours a week to support herself as a student.  After giving her a few small gifts, Ellen presented her with a check for…

What does the expression “locker room talk” mean to you?  We think it refers to words and conversations that one would say in private, but would never want to be repeated in public.  It is as if the locker room were some sort of “off limits” place where the normal rules of behavior would not…

Two wonderful men died Sunday: one young, one old.  Rory McIlroy probably said it best when he said of Arnold Palmer: “No one has ever done more for any sport than Arnold did for golf.”  We tried to think of what others have meant to their sports, Babe Ruth, for example, but had to agree…

There have been a number of injuries recently in our national headlines.  Nothing can be more devastating to a team than an injury to a key player.  How each person responds to the loss of an important teammate is critical.  The Code says, “I will be a positive influence on the relationships on the team.” …

Wednesday (today) is Roberto Clemente Day in Major League baseball.  Clemente was by far one of the greatest and most exciting players of his generation.  Statistics do not tell the story of this great person, loved by all, and admired by all.  That love and admiration was because of who he was as a person…

The big discussion this week has been about Colin Kaepernick, who refused to stand for the National Anthem because of his belief that our country has not being doing enough about the issue of race.  No one disputes that racism exists, and no one disputes Kaepernick’s right to express himself – it’s one of the…

There have been a number of memorable stories from the Olympics the past two weeks.  Let’s end them by remembering two incidents which show athletes acknowledging that some things are bigger than the game as they stop what they are doing to honor the national anthem. First, you can see this US pole vaulter stop…

Good Uber driver Ellis Hill had a passenger, Liz Willock,  who said she knew an Olympic swimmer.  Hill said his son was a shot putter on the US team.  When Willock learned that he couldn’t afford to go see his son compete because of the expense, she volunteered to raise the money to get him…

As the Olympics begin, we do well to recall the “Olympic spirit” – what is it?  A starting place could be the Olympic creed: “The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.…