Sandro Dias: From 900s to Terabytes—How One Name Became a Global Rorschach Test
The name Sandro Dias used to mean one thing: a Brazilian man in baggy jeans spinning 900 degrees above a half-pipe while gravity filed a formal complaint. That was the early 2000s, when vert skateboarding still mattered and ESPN’s X-Games had the cultural gravity of a papal conclave on Red Bull. Dias—nicknamed “Mineirinho,” presumably because…