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Football is in the Poggi family blood

By Sheldon Shealer
ESPNRISE.com

Friday, June 19, 2009

When Biff Poggi offers fatherly advice regarding football, Jim Poggi listens. After all, the elder Poggi knows what the younger Poggi is going through. Jim Poggi, an 18-year-old rising senior linebacker at Gilman School (Baltimore), is one of Maryland's top high school football prospects. He held more than 20 major college scholarship offers before committing to the University of Iowa in April. Biff Poggi, Gilman's head coach, was a major college football prospect 30 years ago and played at ...

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