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  • n  a matador or one of the supporting team during a bull fight

  • It's typically not warm, not anywhere near the Mediterranean, and far from the foot-stomping, castanet-clanging, torero ole-ing that characterizes the nation's more well-known .
  • Excited onlookers identify the amateur torero as a manager from the Casablanca Hotel, a sombrero's throw away.
  • Rafita is thought to be the youngest torero, or bullfighter, in the world.
News & Articles

  • BYU claims WCC Commissioner’s Cup
    BYU claims WCC Commissioner’s Cup The Salt Lake Tribune Published Jun 6, 2013 03:43PM MDT BYU edged out San Diego to win the 2012-13 West Coast Conference Commissioner’s Cup, breaking a Torero run of five consecutive trophies.. The Cougars collected 78 points, while San Diego had 74. Saint Mary’s was third with 65.5 points. The WCC Commissioner’s Cup is an all-sports award presented at the end ...
    June 6, 2013 - The Salt Lake Tribune
Quotes

  • Ernest Hemingway in Bloomberg
    ...may become the best-known movie about the tradition since "The Sun Also Rises", a 1957 film based on another Hemingway book, said Muriel Feiner, author of "Torero! Los Toros en El Cine," a 2005 book about bullfight movies.
  • David Zinman in New York Times
    As for the sweet disposition that seemed to pervade the rehearsal, as it did the conversation, Mr. Zinman said: "He has become sweeter, I must say. He was more of a torero before he had the accident."

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