To understand how a poor kid from Coconut Grove grew up to become one of the leading rushers in NFL history, you must first learn about the making of Frank Gore.
In a quiet corner of the Colts locker room, he calmly relates one life-altering moment after another. The most emotionally wrenching:the night he happened upon his drug-addicted mother getting high in their tiny Miami home.
"I got up to use the bathroom," Gore said, "and I saw her using. That just stayed on my mind. I was probably a sophomore in high school. I sat down with her and said, 'Mom, why?