Meet Ariel ‘El Kumán’ Lopez, a Bantamweight Boxer Who Won’t Let His Immigration Status Stop Him

Gustavo Martinez — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 20:26:16 +0000

If you ask Ariel “El Kumán” López, he’d tell you the only way to achieve greatness is by knocking people down, especially if your right hand packs dynamite and your main goal in life is to become boxing’s next Gran Campeón Mexicano. He chose boxing as a career because he was sure his fists had the

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From a World Trade Center Basement to the World Cup: The Story of Carlos Llamosa

Gustavo Martinez — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 20:45:36 +0000

It was a second chance. Carlos Llamosa escaped the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center by pure coincidence and thus continued on his improbable path to become a soccer star in the United States. Llamosa, then 23, was out for lunch when Ramzi Yousef and Eyad Ismoil pulled a yellow Ryder van into the

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