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A native of Palm Springs, Grant escaped the 125-degree summers in 2001 and never looked back. Since relocating to the Bay Area to become a Golden Bear, he’s had gigs with outlets as diverse as the San Francisco Examiner, The Bold Italic, Sports Illustrated, and Golden State Warriors radio, lived above Mad Dog In The Fog in Lower Haight (where he totally cheated at Pub Quiz), and has enjoyed close to three dozen boots of Franziskaner at Suppenkuche (not all at once). He currently splits his time…

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The Pain Train’s last stop: Zack Follett’s unexpected life after Cal football

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Posted by Grant Marek on April 16, 2026 Tags: Categories: Bay Area Sports Cal legend Zack Follett built a life after the NFL that nobody saw coming. Top Sports Stories RSS Feed
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The Pain Train's last stop: Zack Follett's unexpected life after Cal football

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Cal legend Zack Follett built a life after the NFL that nobody saw coming. (Garry Kazanjian For SFGATE/Illustration by SFGATE) No one just hands out a college football nickname like "Pain Train." You have to earn it. And no one earned it quite like Cal football's Zack Follett. After a 2005 game against No. 1 USC, he was suspended for ramming his facemask into a helmet-less LenDale White.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

National sports columnist for The Desert Sun when I was 17. I don't think it was paid.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

No.

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Will McAvoy
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