My grandma accused me of cheating. 

We were playing Skip-Bo and she (jokingly, I think) accused me of stacking the deck in order to win. For the r...

In sports, the smallest adjustments can lead to the best results. It's rare that you see high-performing athletes completely overhaul their technique....

During baseball season I spend more time talking to people I don't know or people I don't see often than any other time of the year. It's because I'm ...

I’ve spent the last few days talking to newcomers in the Mariners clubhouse and it’s surprising the number of times the word “communication” has co...

There's plenty of room to think outside the box scores this week and use sports small talk to springboard into different conversations. 

The start...

March Madness is officially underway. What strategy did you use to fill out your brackets? 

Are you the type to go with top seeds? Looking for the...

Selection Sunday is a week away, there have been plenty of bombshells in the NFL ahead of the new league year Wednesday and Alexander Ovechkin is l...

For as much as I like to emphasize the importance of small talk in relationship building, sometimes you just don’t have time. Or maybe you have time f...

The idea that more is better leads us to believe that longer conversations (i.e. more words) are needed to make an impact. That’s simply not true.

The flight attendant greeting everyone on my Alaska Airlines flight Saturday night couldn’t have been nicer. She said hi to everyone boarding the plan...

Just a reminder that the way you talk about the outcome of a game is part of your personal brand. You might separate your fandom from who are you a...

The Super Bowl isn’t just the biggest football game of the year, it’s one of the biggest events of the year period.

Of the 30 most-watched telecasts ...