Bill Taylor

Sports Conflict Lab A New Era in Sports: Welcome to Sports Conflict Lab: We are thrilled to announce the official launch of Sports Conflict Lab—an initiative born from real world experience with conflict in sports, and the realization that successful conflict management skills are essential to all success in sports, and unsuccessful conflict management always damages and sometimes destroys. On one side, conflict can unravel a season, a team, an organization. On the other side, when handled...

I’m watching ESPN’s First Take the other day with the subject being all of the big name head coach firings in college football.  Brian Kelly had just been fired from LSU, joining 6 other Power-4 Head Football Coaches on the unemployment line in the past few weeks, and it’s not even November yet. Those firings alone would be a sports conflict blog, but today I am more interested in another aspect of this subject. At this point of the show Mike Greenberg is asking his panel of sports experts if...