Post Tagged with: "Football"

Gronk’s Legacy

Nine seasons, three Super Bowls, three rings. Rob Gronkowski was an exhilarating player and a lively character on the field, bringing pride to all Patriots fans. He wants to show how once a Patriot, always a Patriot.  Gronk signed a one-day contract with the Patriots on November 12, 2025. He […]

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The Era of the Dumb Athlete Is Over

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Co-hosts Dr. Jeremy Piasecki and Sydney Moore discuss about the new challenges athletes must face on the Culture in Sports Podcast.

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No Athlete Should Be Placed in That Position

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Season 4 of the Culture in Sports Podcast continues with Lori Okimura and Dr. Jeremy Piasecki having a discussion with John Manly (The nation’s preeminent attorney representing victims of sexual abuse and assault) about athlete lived experience, protecting athletes, and how organizations can prioritize athletes’ health and wellbeing.

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Video: Impacting the World

Watch Dr. Jeremy Piasecki and Chase Griffin, Quarterback for UCLA Football discuss trust, opportunities, positive leadership, accountability, respect, struggle, food insecurity, self-care, wellness, burnout, perfection, 365 days of winning, role models, and impacting the world, and learn about his journey through sports and the importance of leadership and organizational culture […]

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Impacting the World

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Listen to Dr. Jeremy Piasecki speak with Chase Griffin, Quarterback for UCLA Football about trust, opportunities, positive leadership, accountability, respect, struggle, food insecurity, self-care, wellness, burnout, perfection, 365 days of winning, role models, and impacting the world, and learn about his journey through sports and the importance of leadership and […]

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Another Super Bowl, Another Barrier

The first Super Bowl with two African American starting quarterbacks,sent me thinking back to two pioneers, who inspired me as a fat white kid growing up in Upstate New York and destined to put my hand on the dirt as a lineman, but who grew up loving the quarterback position. […]

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Being Distracted

Tom Brady had a tough game this past Sunday. Teammates, coaches, analysts, and fans can all speculate what happened on Sunday, but Tom Brady is the only one who truly knows what he was going through mentally, physically, and emotionally. Being an athlete at such high level is difficult enough. […]

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NIL In High School: A Parents’ Guide

One of the biggest revolutions of the last 14 months is the removal of barriers that prevented college athletes from receiving financial benefits from the use of their names, images, and likenesses (called “NIL”). As the opportunity to earn income from NIL has now moved to the high school level, […]

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People Behaving Badly in Sports Can Result in Death

I recently wrote a few articles about coaches, athletes, parents, and even officials behaving badly at sporting events. Poor behavior in sports looks like it is on the rise, especially in the United States. While there is no data supporting this perception, people in sports behaving badly has been in […]

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LGBTQ in football

Football is a sport that unites everyone and brings all those from different countries, religions, and ethnicities and like any other sport football has the power to unite everyone together within the football community. With all this being said there are still some sexuality issues that remain in football but […]

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2022 Sports Leader of the Year Winner

The results are in for the Culture in Sports, Sports Leader of the Year Award! Thanks to everyone who voted for who they thought should win out of our three nominees. The winner of the Sports Leader of the Year Award is Odessa Jenkins. Odessa is the Founder and CEO […]

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Premier League Ownership

The English Premier League is arguably the bets football league in the world and the pinnacle league for players not just in England but players from all over the world. The reputation this league has continued to have has been revolutionary and has changed the way a lot of clubs […]

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Why Cristiano Ronaldo is a Role Model to so Many

Cristiano Ronaldo is a Portuguese footballer who many argue is the greatest to have ever played the game. He currently plays for Manchester United but has also played for Sporting Lisbon, Real Madrid, and Juventus. Over his incredible career he has won 32 trophies including 3 Premier Leagues, 2 La […]

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How Arsene Wenger Changed English Football Forever

Football is such a popular and traditional sport in English culture and has one of the most viewed exciting leagues in the world with the Premier league which has embedded a way of culture how the game should be played. However, this all was to change when Arsene Wenger was […]

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Negative Criticism in the Sports World

Steelers’ quarterback Dwayne Haskins was recently involved in a tragic fatal accident on April 9, 2022. As his family, fans, and the sport mourned his loss, sportswriter and analyst Adam Schefter came out with an inappropriate and unprofessional message on Twitter.  Schefter wrote, “Dwayne Haskins, a standout at Ohio State […]

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UK Grassroots Football Culture

 Football is a game that continues to move through generation to generation and it’s important that football can keep its core values especially in the UK where football is one of the most popular sports played. Grassroots football is not just the heart and soul of the English football system […]

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Cultural Differences – UK vs US Football

Football in these two countries has always been very different. In the UK, football is the most popular sport by a long way in comparison to any other whereas in the US where it is considered as soccer, it is only the fifth most popular sport in the country. This […]

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Who’s Club Is It Anyway?

To say that English people love their football would represent a well-known and generally accepted statement. Over the past two decades, foreign ownership in English Football’s top flight has done nothing but increase. Football is a worldwide game attracting unimaginable amounts of money. For some context, several stars in the […]

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Traditions In Sport Culture: Call it “Brotherly Love”

Sports Culture isn’t always demonstrated in the flesh; occasionally, there are traditions that exemplify how sports can bring people together otherwise … for example … a game of Madden Football every Thanksgiving Morning for 16 years in a row. (This article is about my brother and I, and to be […]

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Responsibility On and Off the Field

A couple days ago some shocking news was delivered to us by the NFL. Las Vegas wide receiver Henry Ruggs III had been traveling 156 mph near a residential area where he hit and killed Tina Tintor and her dog. The Raiders were quick to drop Ruggs, but Tina’s life […]

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It Is Cheating and You Got Caught

A few months ago, I wrote an article about Bill Cowher, a former coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers, saying that “It’s only cheating if you get caught” and discussed taking competitive advantages into the grey area, or worse into illegal territory.  It was recently revealed that the Denver Broncos cheated […]

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Against All Odds

Imagine being out of a sport for almost three years due to an injury.  Now imagine returning to the same sport after the injury.  And now imagine getting the opportunity to compete again. McKenzie Milton lived the horror and heartbreak, through the injury, and then the inspiring journey of his […]

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An Abusive Coach Caught on Camera

Last week a video surfaced of a high school coach screaming and shoving one of his players on the sideline during the game.  It was a horrible coaching moment that luckily did not get worse as the kid kept on trying to walk away.  This coach made multiple terrible decisions:  […]

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Fear is Never an Efficient Motivator

This week Sara Davis, in her article What Are You Afraid of? Your Fear May Be Keeping You From Your Destiny, we were reminded to not let fear limit our possibilities. When there are unchecked egos and bullying and aggressive behavior prevail, there is a negative impact on performance. Far […]

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Rings of Loyalty

Okay, full disclosure here, even though this is only my second article, I may ruffle some feathers with these next few statements. I am a native New Englander, which means I have a passion for all things related to New England sports, and a significant distaste for a certain professional […]

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Diversity in Hiring, Limitations of the Rooney Rule

One of my favorite authors is Michael Lombardi. Lombardi has been a senior player personnel executive with several NFL teams, including a stint as GM of the Cleveland Browns. He has three Super Bowl rings from his time with Bill Walsh and the 49ers and Bill Belichick and the Patriots. […]

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Treat Those Two Imposters Just the Same

We have a chance here to demonstrate that while winning and losing have value, they are as Rudyard Kipling- talk about a complicated potentially toxic legacy-correctly observed, two imposters to be treated the same. Victory is a neutral, not definitively a positive concept.

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