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PLAYING IT OUT

By Alan Grant

Friday, October 24, 2008

So these two men, the lone survivors of a shipwreck, are seated in a dinghy. All around them, there's nothing but ocean. Each man uses a single oar to row the boat in a direction they hope will eventually lead to land. After several days of fruitless effort one man says: "I think we should stop and pray to God." "Yeah, we can pray to God," 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 t ...

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