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By DARREN MILLER
hawkeyesports.com
ATLANTA -- Behind every great person is a great mother.
Meet Yvette Powell. She is Desmond King’s mother. If Hawkeye fans think Desmond is great, get a load of his mom.
Yvette, who turns 45 later this month, was born, raised, and spent her entire life in Detroit. She raised four boys and stressed education so much that she volunteered at elementary school every day for all of them.
“I did it to make sure they all got an education,” Yvette said Thursday at The Home Depot College Football Awards Show.