Gridiron Guests Stoke King Students’ Dreams
On Tuesday of this week, dozens of boys at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School for Science and Technology had what one 4th grader described as "the best day of the year."
Football players from Tulane University, along with Head Coach Bob Toledo and other members of the coaching staff, held a clinic for the 3rd through 8th grade boys out on the yard of the school in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward. For more than an hour, the boys hustled and sweated through drills in running, throwing, catching, backpedaling, and dodging hits.
After the drills, Mr. Toledo gathered them all into a giant huddle, along with King's two coaches, Enos Hicks and Antoinette Gay,...
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