<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/images/many-are-called-few-are-chosen-the-curtis-smith-story.html" dsn="news"><pubdate>08/28/2024</pubdate><author>Darren Worrell</author><hero-image><img src="/images/curtissmithpictures.jpg" alt="Curtis Smith"/></hero-image><hero-image-credit>Darren Worrell</hero-image-credit><category>sports</category><title>Many are Called, Few are Chosen - The Curtis Smith Story</title><description>Have you ever wondered what it would be like to attend a school as a student, and make your way back later as a member of its staff? In 1995, Curtis Smith was a small basketball-loving freshman at Paul Robeson High School in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, a school with a reputation for roughness. More than two decades later, he is back in the same building, where he not only went to school but played basketball at. </description></item>