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Cleveland connects with BYU community success

By Adrian Wojnarowski
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, February 27, 2003

Steve Cleveland leaned over a cheeseburger inside a Red Robin hamburger house in Fresno, Calif., seven years ago, a community college coach resigned to the reality that the biggest break of his coaching life had passed him in 1993. Fresno City's coach had been turned down for an assistant's job at BYU, a Mormon son completely convinced that he was never going to live his dream. "I had my shot," Cleveland sighed that day. "I had my shot." He had told his wife, Kit, that he would never again bri ...

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