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Celebrity alumni give Poly a Hollywood atmosphere

By Jeremy Willis
ESPNRISE.com

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

There's the Snoop Dogg who is the international hip-hop star, actor and reality-show dad … and then there's the guy who has to stop by his son's high school. "He acts like any other parent," said Poly (Long Beach, Calif.) principal Shawn Ashley. Such is life at Poly, the 104-year-old institution where Snoop Dogg went to high school and where his son is a student. Snoop Dogg, who went by the name Calvin Broadus when he roamed the halls in the late 1980s and '90s, wasn't the only Jackrabbi ...

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