Unguarded

[GreenieSMU]

Sorry if this was posted before...If you did not catch the latest 30 for 30 show titled Unguarded it is worth a casual watch. It is about the rise and crash of Chris Herren of San Jose State University. What is interesting from an SMU perspective is the game after his 20 day rehab assignment was against SMU at Moody. SMU fans were brutal to the guy and he torched the Ponies!

"Award-winning filmmaker Jonathan Hock has mastered the art of telling stories about the struggles and triumphs of American hometown heroes. Chris Herren of Fall River, Mass., was a high school basketball standout who battled the pressures of making it big from an early age. After dropping out of Boston College, Chris landed on Jerry Tarkanian's notorious Fresno State team, where players were likely to be found on both police blotters and All-American lists. Chris failed drug tests at BC and Fresno State, but he was so talented that he was drafted into the NBA anyway, ending up with the Boston Celtics. But at the moment he was realizing his childhood dream of becoming a star for the home team, Chris was falling in a 10-year-long spiral of addiction. He bounced from team to team, country to country. Ultimately, Chris, the youngest and most talented of three generations of local heroes, has found redemption and personal fulfillment through the game, but only after it led him literally around the world, down a path of alcohol and drug addiction that nearly killed him."


http://espn.go.com/espn/espnfilms/story ... /unguarded

[PonyPlayer4]

Fresno State not SJSU, but yes a good watch

[ponyscott]

Yep Herren was outstanding at FSU with Tark the Shark, and that was a great documentary on him and his life so far. I wish the best to him ...a very charismatic man who could influence many people over the course of his life to stay straight. May God bless him.