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Football: Add another ex-Jackrabbit to the draft board

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Let me pour you a draft -- as in a draft pick. This is football draft season, isn’t it?

That should remind us how Long Beach Poly has produced 17 NFL draft picks, more than any other high school in the nation. Poly’s most recent drafted alumnus: receiver DeSean Jackson, pictured, whom the Eagles selected as the 49th pick overall. Other NFL dignitaries who played for Poly include defensive backs Mark Carrier, Marquez Pope and Omar Stoutmire, linebacker Willie McGinest, tight end Marcedes Lewis, receiver Samie Parker and offensive tackle Winston Justice.

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Wow, what a who’s who. And it’s not just in football.

Other famous alumni are baseball Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn, tennis great Billie Jean King, actress Cameron Diaz and the dope-est rapper of all time, Snoop Dogg.

OK, I just invented the word ‘dope-est’ -- yippee!

-- Anthony Stitt

-- Image by Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times

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