LA Dream

Old friend Moises Linares checks in from Washington D.C. Might be in quarantine but he's still doing the sports report. 

And its our first youtube!!!!

September 13, 2003.

USC vs Hawaii.

The first college football game I covered as media. 

Matt Leinart, Reggie Bush and LenDale White weren't stars yet. 

Good trip down memory lane

Quarantine edition:

On twitter, people were mentioning their first jobs so I decided to podcast about mine.

Chihuahua to Dallas to LA to TV to football. Busy 48 hours but worth it! Short podcast but to the point.

Solo talk on covering Kobe Bryant's career, what I learned from him and then some. 

Podcast update, life update with shout out to Hooter Moreno

How do you go from UCLA football walk-on to Olympic bobsledder? Carlo Valdes story is perfect example of believing in yourself. 

Fun podcast about never giving up. 

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Gustavo Arellano is back! This time our friend has a front page feature on Pepe Aguilar. That's right FRONT PAGE!

We get into how the story happened, the background of doing a long feature and more.

Story:

In a city that loves rags-to-riches stories, few can match the saga of Pepe Aguilar and his family.

But only some Angelenos know about it.

His father, Antonio, slept on benches in Placita Olvera when he arrived in Los Angeles from Mexico in the 1940s with no papers but plenty of ambition. He triumphantly returned in the 1960s as a ranchera legend, with an espectáculofeaturing his family that brought Mexico back to homesick immigrant L.A. audiences, if only for three hours.

These extravaganzas, which interspersed music with rodeo events, evoked the rural traditions of Jalisco and Zacatecas, from where hundreds of thousands of Mexican Americans in the Southland trace their roots; what might’ve seemed like a circus act to non-Latinos was really an authentic, if romanticized, portrayal of culture of these Mexican states.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-09-14/pepe-aguilar-mexican-rodeo

Video:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-09-10/pepe-aguilar-jaripeo-sin-fronteras

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Quick solo Monday talk. It really is about "Living YOUR Dream!"

In 2002 I meet play-by-play announcer Jose Mota, and things take a big turn. Come 2003, I'm keeping stats at a Dodgers game, but did I know what I was doing? Yeah right. Still made it happen, and got my first credential. Never say no.