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Fernando Mendoza family tree: Meet backup QB brother, mom and more about Indiana QB's Cuban roots

Mendoza was raised primarily in Miami, Fla.
People

Where Are Fernando Báez Sosa's Killers Now? Inside Their Lives 5 Years After Beating Him to Death in Less Than a Minute

Fernando Báez Sosa's brutal murder is revisited in the Netflix docuseries, '50 Seconds: The Fernando Báez Sosa Case' GDA via AP ; JUAN MABROMATA/AFP via Getty Eighteen-year-old Fernando Báez Sosa was beaten to death outside a club in January 2023 The ...
American Songwriter

The Revolutionary Meaning Behind ABBA’s Freedom-Fighting “Fernando”

If, in 1605, Miguel de Cervantes had the pop sensibilities of Sweden’s ABBA, Don Quixote might have spent the past 400 years being sung at every iteration of a stadium or karaoke bar on the planet. “Fernando” is one of the most successful songs ever ...
The New York Times

Fernando Mendoza pulls away while Diego Pavia closes gap in our Heisman straw poll

Fernando Mendoza builds a larger lead in this week's Heisman straw poll. Soobum Im / Getty Images Fernando Mendoza extended his lead, and Diego Pavia narrowed the gap on fellow SEC quarterback Ty Simpson in the fifth edition of The Athletic’s Heisman ...
Los Angeles Times

Fernando Valenzuela was the man who connected L.A. to the Dodgers

Fernando Valenzuela literally roped me into his life. It was in the spring of 1989, my first full year covering the Dodgers for The Times, and I was still in awe of this legend that I had not yet met. Valenzuela sensed this, and one day I was carefully ...
Today

Fernando Valenzuela, the former Dodgers pitcher who inspired ‘Fernandomania,’ dies at 63

Fernando Valenzuela, the Mexican-born phenom for the Los Angeles Dodgers who inspired “Fernandomania” while winning the NL Cy Young Award and Rookie of the Year in 1981, has died. He was 63. The team said he died Tuesday night at a Los Angeles hospital ...
D Magazine

How Fernando De Leon Quietly Built a $10 Billion Empire

The Dallas investor made a fortune by defying conventional wisdom and trusting his gut. Now, he’s ready to spark a new wave of market disruption. Inside Fernando De Leon’s office at 3500 Maple Avenue, windows frame sweeping views of Uptown. His desk is ...
Los Angeles Times

In Fernando Valenzuela’s hometown, mourning and memories of how ‘The Lefty’ got his start

ETCHOHUAQUILA, Mexico — It’s no Field of Dreams, this bumpy patch of sun-baked earth with faded chalk lines, no bleachers, not a blade of grass and a drooping line of wire separating the outfield from houses where scraggly canines lurk. Yet this is ...

Things to do in the San Fernando Valley, LA area, Dec. 11-19

Here is a sampling of things to do in the San Fernando Valley and the greater Los Angeles area. Holiday Road: A self-guided, one-mile walk to see holiday-theme light installations plus a “Winter Market” for gifts,
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