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Husker recruit Rodriguez opens doors

By Gabrielle Paese
ESPN.com

Thursday, October 15, 2009

At P.S. 198, where Nebraska commit Andrew Rodriguez went to elementary school, being Puerto Rican was not unusual. In fact, the school, just south of New York City's Spanish Harlem, is 51 percent Hispanic. And while Rodriguez's 98th Street neighborhood no longer has the Puerto Rican flavor it once did -- the corner bodegas are now mostly run by Dominicans, and you are as likely to hear bachata from an open car window as you are reggaeton -- Spanish is still spoken on the streets and a Latin pre ...

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