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Jets' Brandon Marshall reads defenses, self-help books

Bob Glauber

Glauber has been Newsday's national football columnist since 1992. He was Newsday's football writer covering the Jets and

The journey of self-discovery that led Brandon Marshall to McLean Hospital outside Boston left him with more than a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder. It also awakened in him something that was completely unexpected, something he hadn’t experienced since his junior year in high school: a love of reading.

Marshall, who sought help for

problematic behavior that had alienated himself from teammates, coaches and fans,

said he hadn’t read a book from cover-to-cover since his days at Lake Howell High School in Pittsburgh.