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Program makes it academic for high school players

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Program makes it academic for high school players

Play It Smart assigns study coaches at Long Beach Poly, Westchester and Los Angeles Crenshaw, using better chance at football opportunities as the incentive.
By Lauren Peterson, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
September 19, 2007

Kyle Byrdsong and Marcus Falanai sat at separate tables near the front of the Long Beach Poly football team’s film room, each hunched over a textbook and doing his best to decipher the intricacies of algebra.

At another table, near two large and noisy fans that stood opposite a wall with the words “Study, Work and Play Like a Champion” painted on it, Daveon Akinsanya and Garry Phillips were punching numbers into calculators as they pored over a physics assignment.

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