The Sideline Seat Sports Story of the Week What we can learn from the 2 minute drill The 2 minute drill in American football is practiced almost every day in the season. It’s the “what if” scenario that you can expect to happen, and you best be prepared for. There are 2 minutes left. The outcome of the game is on the line. You need to play great defense, or great offense. Andddd Go. While other drills, practice plans and such might change, the 2 minute drill is always a given. Its fast. Its…

The Sideline Seat Sports Story of the Week What we can learn from a roof and a goalpost What do a roof and a goalpost have in common? Sounds like a joke my kids would ask me. However, over the weekend, the wild world of sports gave us these two perfect examples of how maddening it is to live in a world where we can see everything and rarely have the ability to fix it. First, Friday night ESPN game: Virginia Tech vs Pitt. Both 4-0. With the game at 35-33 and seconds left on the clock, Virginia…

The Sideline Seat Sports Story of the Week What we can learn from a third string NFL Quarterback. Last night Case Keenum, the number 3 Quarterback on the Chicago Bears, got the start against the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday night football. It had only been a mere 1,009 days since his last start. Quarterback injuries is a big story in the NFL this year. Too many teams are working on scrambling with their number 2, 3, or even looking at what to do in the lead position for the rest of the…

The Sideline Seat Sports Story of the Week NC State vs. Vanderbilt You never want your football team to make history in a bad way, but that is exactly what NC State Football did this weekend. I apologize in advance to my brother Kyle, an NC State alumni, and all the other fans of NC State who will need to relive this weekends disappointment, but the lessons to be learned are worth it. The NC State Wolfpack headed into Nashville this weekend to face SEC opponent, Vanderbilt. Most of the talk…

The Sideline Seat Sports Story of the Week Lane Kiffin returns to Ole Miss While I usually write this newsletter based on recent events, this week, I am going to the history leading up to a future event. This upcoming weekend, Lane Kiffin, head coach at Louisiana State University (LSU) returns to Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, in Oxford to play against his old team- and his old employer- the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss).For those that don’t know the story, Lane Kiffin abruptly left his…

The Sideline Seat Sports Story of the Week New Study: Girls Who Play Change The Game Anyone that has been around me for longer than a few minutes in leadership trainings know how strongly I feel about sports creating leaders. I often reference the study by EY and ESPNW in 2015 on the statistic that 94% of Women in the C-Suite played sport. Well now, thanks to e.l.f. and Parity, we now have even more data to back up this finding. I acknowledge, as does this report, that sports aren’t the only…

The Sideline Seat Sports Story of the Week The Tarp Monster Strikes Again Anyone that has been around baseball or softball for more than one season has had to deal with being on the “Tarp Pull Team”. The group of people that have to run out and unroll the massive tarp from its resting place onto the field to cover the dirt that can get ruined in rain. Sometimes alone in the early morning, sometimes after a weather report changes in the late night, and sometimes, in front of a stadium of fans…

The Sideline Seat Sports Story of the Week In Honor of Tommy John I woke up yesterday to the news that Tommy John died at the age of 83. He was a great baseball player, a brave pioneer, and a good human. In June of 2006, my Dad and I attended the Rickwood Classic in Birmingham, Alabama. I was in the middle of applying for my first real big kid athletic training jobs and spending some time with him in Alabama while the whole process played out. Tommy John happened to be there and threw out the…

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The Sideline Seat Sent every Tuesday to build better leaders and teams. Sports Story of the Week Squad Games I recently went with my family to the Squad Games tour by Dude Perfect. If you don’t also have Dude Perfect fans in the house, they are a You Tube/Trick Shot/Hilarious skit group that creates a lot of enjoyment for our family. For this tour, they were competing against another “Squad” in a variety of over the top games. On our stop, we had the please of having the Harlem Globetrotters…