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MLK's Brown not afraid to tell it like he is

By David Auguste
ESPN RISE Magazine

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Before the Martin Luther King Jr. (Lithonia, Ga.) football team took the field for its first-round Class AAAAA playoff game against Tift County (Tifton, Ga.) last year, then-junior Mack Brown stood before his teammates and boldly proclaimed, "I am going to score a touchdown and we are going to win this game." They believed him. It was classic Mack Brown. Who could doubt the centerpiece of the team's offense? Brown had scored in each of the Lions' other 10 games and had reached pay dirt 22 time ...

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