Author name: Mike Halloran

The first time I tried to volunteer with a youth football program, I was told I needed certifications before I […]

Three losses in a row, and by the time your team reaches the parking lot, the silence tells you everything

Most sports leadership books lists — coaching leadership roundups included — are a waste of your time. They’re stuffed with

The best player on my roster that year wore a captain’s armband and said absolutely nothing for three games straight.

Third season in, and I was standing in a parking lot at 9pm on a Saturday, watching a dad pace

The locker room was dead quiet. Fifteen kids sat on benches staring at the floor, and I had about 45

I’ve watched a lot of coaches lose their players. Not at halftime, not after a bad loss, but somewhere around

The silence after that playoff loss didn’t bother me because we lost. It bothered me because I realized my players

The process meetings were running perfectly — same structure Saban uses, same language, same Friday film breakdown — and three

Somewhere in the current NFL season, Jim Harbaugh is running a practice with principles he absorbed not in a coaching