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College National Championship: UM Miami Hurricanes vs Indiana, January 19 2026

  THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP   On a cool January evening, as the lights of the national championship stadium burn bright against the winter sky, something more than a football game is unfolding. For the Cuban American diaspora—scattered across Miami, New Jersey, Texas, California, and countless towns in between—this night feels like a quiet miracle. Out of more than 5,000 colleges and universities in the United States, what are the chances that the two programs standing at the summit of college football would be guided there by sons of families who once crossed the Florida Straits with little more than hope in their pockets? At one sideline stands Indiana University, led by Fernando Mendoza. His name rolls easily off the announcers’ tongues now, but behind it lies a story that began decades earlier, on a different shore. His grandparents, Fernando y Marta Mendoza, were part of the great wave of Cuban families forced to flee after the rise of the Castro dictatorship. They arrive...

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