Opinion: The Aztecs fanbase extends across the U.S.-Mexico border, especially after March Madness [Opinion]
is a reporter for Televisa Tijuana covering San Diego news, as well as a play-by-play announcer for the World Baseball and Softball Confederation. He lives in Tijuana.They may think that because there is only one team here from the so-called “major” sports leagues: the Padres.The San Diego Gulls play in a professional hockey league, but it is a “minor” one that develops talent for the National Hockey League. There is no NHL team here. No NFL or NBA teams, either.
His 1989 national championship as coach of Michigan, 10 years before his arrival in San Diego, helped convince the players on his new team that they could legitimately aspire to do so as well. Normally in Mexico, people adopt teams from the United States’ professional leagues as their very own, so the fact that a college team generated that feeling is just remarkable.
Of course, now people are sad that the red and black team couldn’t return home with the title, but what they did was still outstanding.
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