I'll spare you the gory details, but in 2000, as a 24-year old third year assistant high school coach, all the players on our varsity team were going to be let out of school early for a special team-building activity on a gameday. The only problem was that there were...

Clearly not all coaches are equally proficient. As with any other profession, some are better than others. The 10th best tennis player in the world is not as good as the 4th best, and so on. You get the idea.On the other hand, here's something I just don't buy. Last...

I've been watching a lot of youth sports this fall. Our 11-year old son is playing tackle football and our 7-year old just finished up with fall baseball. There are a lot of committed, wonderful, generous people coaching in these youth leagues. I also see a good bit...

A good friend of mine is an men's basketball assistant at a college here in Kansas City. Martin sent me a link to an online interview he gave recently. I love listening to great Coaches talk about what they do, so the whole video was interesting to me. And the part I...

There are many things I'm not very good at. I'm not good at home repair. I'm not good at putting things together. I'm not good at songwriting, farming, or drawing straight lines. When faced with any one of those tasks, it is easy for me to recognize my deficiencies...

( There's nothing particularly relevant to coaches or athletes in the picture this week, but when I did a search for "scared face", this one was too good to pass up.)FEAR. The very word brings to mind vivid images and memories. Fear is powerful. It can make us do all...

I do this about once a year. I'll read something and think, "Wow, that's better than whatever I was going to write" and I'll post it in this space. One of my good friends sent this to me a week ago and I loved it. I thought the first paragraph of the article spoke...

In the years I spent in coaching I had opportunities to develop some very cool relationships with athletes. In some cases, I actually took advantage of those opportunities. Unfortunately, there are many that I missed. I try not to major in regret as I live my life,...

It's been a long summer. And while it's not quite over yet, we are very near the beginning of a new school year. My family spent a good part of this week registering children for classes, shopping for supplies, loading up backpacks, and otherwise gearing up for the...

I read this the other day:"let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us." (Hebrews 12:1)Whenever I've read that before, my thoughts have gone to the "sin that so easily...