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Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Fernando Valenzuela at Dodger Stadium in around 1981. And by age 20, he’d touched off a fan frenzy pitching for the Los Angeles Dodgers. When he made the cover of Sports Illustrated, the headline read: “UNREAL!”As Valenzuela rose to stardom, “Fernando-mania” swept Los Angeles. His success helped heal old wounds in Los Angeles’ Mexican American community over the displacement of families before the building of Dodger Stadium. In 2018, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors apologized to women who had undergone coerced sterilizations from 1968 to 1974.

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☆ They ran an Olympic marathon 12 weeks ago. Now they’re back at it in New York
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-01 | by ( Matthew Futterman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +10 min

Only one runner has won the Olympic marathon in the summer and New York in the fall — Kenya’s Peres Jepchirchir in 2021. A pack of runners, including eventual winner Hellen Obiri, race in the Olympic women’s marathon on Aug. 11. She was physically ready to start training again in early September, but even when perfectly healthy, marathon training can be a long and lonely process. (Christian Petersen / Getty Images)Popehn said she found herself replaying the Paris race in her head once she got back home. “It’s on my mind.”GO DEEPER The ex-head of the New York marathon cleared himself in his sport.

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☆ Stanford Was Stranded by the Pac-12 Implosion. How Does It Find a Home?
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Laine Higgins | Louise Radnofsky | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The spectacular implosion of the Pac-12 a week ago—when five members announced plans to defect to other conferences in about as many hours on Friday—instantly created an uncertain future for the four schools that didn’t flee. The situation may be especially excruciating for Stanford, an elite university that now must paddle to safety despite being the winningest athletic department in the nation over the last 30 years and a major producer of American Olympians.

Persons: didn’t Organizations: Stanford, American Olympians

☆ Jill Biden Takes the 2024 Campaign to Paris in Another Overseas Appeal
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Katie Rogers | More About Katie Rogers | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

At first glance, Jill Biden’s work on her trips overseas appears to be rooted in the traditional duties of first ladies: She has cheered on American Olympians in Tokyo, made a secret trip to Ukraine to meet with the country’s first lady and attended the royal wedding of the crown prince of Jordan. But in a host of speeches delivered overseas, including in Namibia and France, she has also used her platform for more political purposes, including making her case that President Biden has promoted democracy and revitalized global relationships strained by former President Donald J. Trump. In Paris on Tuesday, the first lady’s presence was a reminder, as the 2024 presidential campaign heats up, that Americans may again be choosing between the two men. Dr. Biden was there to deliver remarks for the official return of the United States to UNESCO, several years after the Trump administration pulled the country — and its funding — from the group. She was also there to deliver a White House message that Mr. Biden had united allies against what she called “Putin’s unjust war” in Ukraine.

Persons: Jill Biden’s, Jordan, Biden, Donald J, Dr, Trump Organizations: American, Trump, UNESCO Locations: Tokyo, Ukraine, Namibia, France, Paris, United States

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