In part one of my two-part series on risk taking (the good kind) in sports, I looked at what risks are for athletes, the upsides and downsides of taking risks, and how risk taking should be a choice ...

Taking risks is part of sport, and part of life: You won’t excel as an athlete if you don’t take shots that you know may not go into the goal, push harder in a run knowing you may not be able to hold ...

DEAR READER: We tend to think of risk-taking as maverick, but what happens when you befriend it in small low-stakes ways? When you look at the definition of risk, it means danger, harm or loss, we all ...

As a coach, you may assume that your role is to protect athletes from failure, make the decisions that you feel are in the best interest of the team, and generally keep the team’s results steady. But ...