It's Indiana QB Fernando Mendoza vs Miami in first Cuban Super Bowl
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MIAMI ― Banners flap along South Beach’s Alton Road, heralding both Hoosiers and Hurricanes. Digital billboards all over town cheer on both Indiana University, led by their wunderkind hero Fernando Mendoza, and the hometown once-dynastic team, the University of Miami Hurricanes. Local radio and podcast personalities spew endless analyses and interview abuelas, trying to gauge a winner. At the coffee window at La Carreta on Bird Road, an epicenter of the Cuban community in Miami’s Westchester neighborhood (pronounced “Weh-ché-te” in the truncated lingo of Cuban-Americans), recent talk pinged between business and politics and an upcoming national college championship game that is roiling this...