CFP title game: Mario Cristobal’s path back to Miami was forged by family
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By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Luis Cristobal Sr. was always juggling at least two jobs. Clara Cristobal worked at an auto dealership well into her 70s. They were Cuban-Americans, didn’t know English when they came to the U.S, were extremely proud of their heritage, the sort of people who embraced hard work, saved their highest respect for others cut from the same cloth and tried to set the right example as parents. It wasn’t easy for their kids. Mario Cristobal makes no secret about that. “Grades had to be a certain way and there was no straying from doing the right thing,” Cristobal said. “And we weren’t perfect, but we had unbelievable, hard-nosed, tough and...

