A former Broward County assistant state prosecutor, Milian peppers his aggressive style of public-policy debate with the most elevated put-downs on the Spanish-language AM dial. (Gonzalez then paid the station several thousand dollars to use Milian's time slot for campaigning.) Milian had inherited the show on La Poderosa from his father Emilio, whose legs were blown off by a bomb in 1976 after he criticized the violent tactics of anti-Castro extremists. There's no interference from the management." Compared to, say, WWFE-AM (670), La Poderosa, whose owner canceled Milian's show this past November after the host criticized Miami City Commission candidate Angel Gonzalez. Reasons the loquacious, pugnacious, and thoroughly informed emcee of Habla el Pueblo ( The People Speak) likes his new home at WKAT-AM (1360), Radio Uno: "It's very professional. And without that? Shit, man, you don't got nothin'." But the one thing they don't have, the one thing they'll never have, is Warrior pride. Gwen Cherry was a spinoff from us, and they got all the money from the Boys and Girls Club and all these grants from the county so now they've got better uniforms and better equipment and that means they're getting better players. "Our program was the first program in the inner city. "We started the whole thing," one Warriors booster crows. But in Hadley Park, where the Warriors play, they've hardly abandoned hope. In the past few seasons Gwen Cherry has held the upper hand, winning most of the games and even winning a national championship last year in the 110-pound weight class.
It's not uncommon for dedicated fans to wager a thousand dollars or more on their teams. No matter what the weight class, from the four-year-old pee wees up to the fifteen-year-old midgets, a game between Gwen Cherry and Liberty City generates an astounding amount of community interest. Yet that's what happens, dependably, when these two Liberty City parks play each other in Pop Warner football. You know there's something going on when 600 people turn out to watch a football game featuring four-year-olds.