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MIAMI — Mario Cristobal was 13, an age for dreaming, the night the University of Miami arrived as a national college football power. “My grandfather’s house, on a black-and-white TV, watching Kenny Calhoun bat down that ball,” he says now. He needn’t recall that moment 42 years ago, because the memory is always there. Calhoun, a defensive back, deflects a last-second two-point conversion pass ...
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