The Deriso Report

On Melvin Spears and Grambling: Two sides

Nick Deriso — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:45:25 +0000

He could best be described as a perfect Grambling conundrum, a guy with two sides. Melvin Spears was an outsider with a deep passion for Tiger football, a winner who suffered devastating losses, someone who will forever be of and yet not of. When it was over, Spears’ nine-year run as key coordinator and then head coach [...]

TDR stat pack: A bounce back for Dillon, Grambling offense

Nick Deriso — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:26:59 +0000

The Grambling offense had its most complete game of the year last week in a 50-7 dismantling of Mississippi Valley — even if, as coach Rod Broadway said, they could have actually scored a few more times. Grambling’s 271 yards rushing, 24 first downs, 5.5 yards per play and 0 fumbles represent either season bests or [...]

Telling on myself: How the SWAC West ‘wasn’t’ won

Nick Deriso — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:34:32 +0000

Boy, did I have it wrong about the West. From TheDerisoReport’s preseason preview of the Southwestern Athletic Conference 2009 football campaign, my order-of-finish predictions … WEST Grambling Southern Prairie View Texas Southern Arkansas-Pine Bluff The only one that’s right is UAPB. My question, back then, about Prairie View — coming off its best season in four decades — was whether the program could [...]

Tweet feed: Key quotes from Nov. 2 SWAC media teleconference

Nick Deriso — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:05:08 +0000

Here is a repost of TheDerisoReport’s live tweets from Monday’s media teleconference with Southwestern Athletic Conference football coaches. Read from bottom up. Follow TDR on Twitter here — http://twitter.com/thederisoreport. TheDerisoReport: We felt we had worn them down. The result in the season half was what we thought it would be. about 22 hours ago from web TheDerisoReport: [...]

SIX POINTS: TDR’s take on Grambling’s Mississippi Valley win

Nick Deriso — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:57:06 +0000

Six points from TheDerisoReport.com on Grambling’s homecoming week of 2009 football, including a victory over Mississippi Valley State: ONE Though Grambling’s red-zone problems continued against Valley (more on that in a moment), Greg Dillon at last looked like his old self again. You finally saw the eye-popping athleticism that sparked the Tigers to a championship last season — [...]

New TDR photos: Grambing’s 2009 homecoming weekend

Nick Deriso — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:51:45 +0000

TheDerisoReport celebrates Grambling’s 2009 homecoming weekend — from the emotional renaming of the GSU arena for Tiger legend Fred Hobdy on Friday, to Everson Walls opening his national booksigning tour for “A Gift for Ron” at the bookstore on Sunday. We stopped by the ongoing Robinson Museum construction site — and are still marvelling over [...]

Selfless act by ex-Grambling, Dallas Cowboys star Everson Walls retold in new book

Nick Deriso — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:04:20 +0000

Hope and love, outside of the storybooks, so often share time with searing pain and uncertainty. And so it was with Everson Walls and former NFL teammate and life-long friend Ron Springs. “The last months,” Walls told me and paused, searching for the words, “have been trying, triumphant — heavy on my heart. I’ve just been running [...]

Tweet feed: Live blog from Grambling’s win over Mississippi Valley State

Nick Deriso — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:25:50 +0000

Here is a repost of TheDerisoReport’s live tweets from Grambling’s homecoming win on Saturday against Mississippi Valley State at The Rob. Read from bottom up. Follow TDR on Twitter here — http://twitter.com/thederisoreport. That’s your final: Grambling, 50 Valley 7. First time Grambling has scored 50 since beating Texas Southern in homecoming 2007, 57-9. less than a minute [...]

The inconvenient truth about Grambling’s defense: Dead last

Nick Deriso — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:49:15 +0000

Grambling’s defense, a season after playing a key role in securing the SWAC title, has sunk to the bottom of the conference. Dead last. Dead last in total defense, giving up a league-worst 357 yards per game. And a league-worst 27 total touchdowns, and a league-worst in opponent rushng and total yards so far in 2009. Its pass [...]

SWAC reprimands Grambling’s Broadway for comments on officiating; read what he said

Nick Deriso — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:17:43 +0000

The Southwestern Athletic Conference reprimanded Grambling coach Rod Broadway this afternoon for his comments regarding the officiating during the Tigers’ Oct. 10 football game against Alabama A&M. “We hold our coaches and administrators to the highest standards,” SWAC Commissioner Duer Sharp said, in a release today, “and we expect them to conduct themselves in a way [...]