PLAYING IT OUT
Alan Grant...says the other man. "But keep on rowing." Rick Venturi, the former defensive coordinator for the Indianapolis Colts, told me that story. Five games into the 1991 season, Venturi was named the interim coach...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 24, 2008OFFICE POLITICS
Alan Grant[Author's Note: Talking politics can be a slippery slope. As a former athlete who just happens to be an outspoken black man, the terrain can be even m...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 17, 2008NFL POINDEXTER: ART IS EVERYWHERE
Alan Grant...a simple technique that's most effective when the practitioner possesses frightening speed on his first step. Colts fans know that when he's at his best, Dwight Freeney has no peer on this particular...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 26, 2008NFL POINDEXTER: TEARS FOR FEARS
Alan GrantVince Young speaking to a team therapist? Big, strong, virile NFL players on anti-depressants? Tears? It doesn't surprise me. At different points in m...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 19, 2008NFL POINDEXTER: THE LINGERING DOUBT
Alan GrantIn 1994, the Cincinnati Bengals special teams coach was a guy named Marv Braden. Like most special teams coaches, he was colorful and naturally high-s...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 12, 2008NFL POINDEXTER: WHY OFFENSIVE LINEMEN ARE LIKE MARSUPIALS
Alan GrantIt's been a rough couple weeks for the fraternity of NFL offensive linemen. The tears for Gene Upshaw weren't even dry when Frank Cornish, a well-tra...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 29, 2008NFL POINDEXTER
Alan Grant...NFL to call me a nerd was O'Brien Alston. I was a rookie with the Indianapolis Colts at training camp. After the third day of practice, I was seated on the floor outside...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 08, 2008Mind over Matter
Alan Grant...upon a month-long road trip through Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Denver. The trip ended in Detroit and...in his shoulder. The following week, against the Colts, Moore replaced him. He carried the rock a...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 12, 2008TOP SEARCHES IN OCTOBER
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