Though December is the month of the Holiday Season and many students are anxiously awaiting Christmas vacation many don’t mind doing extra work to honor a great humanitarian and super star baseball player, Roberto Clemente. For the past 13 years Latino Sports has been honoring Clemente with 21 days of information and showcasing of his work, his career and his ... Read More »
Two top rivals of boxing Oscar De La Hoya and Tito Trinidad faced each other again, but this time in a more cordial and historic way, they were both inducted to the Boxing Hall of Fame yesterday. Mexico and Puerto Rico have the most heated rivalry in boxing so it is ironic that both a Mexican American, Oscar De La ... Read More »
Featured Photo Credit: MLS NEW YORK, NY– Major League Soccer today announced that Chicago Fire forward Mike Magee was voted the Volkswagen MLS Most Valuable Player for the 2013 season. Today at approximately 4:30 p.m. ET, Magee will receive the award and be presented to media in the Kansas City area covering MLS Cup 2013. Magee, 29, came to the Fire in ... Read More »
Bronx, NY - The Yankees shocked a lot of Boston fans and it was not by winning a close game, but with the checkbook. It appears the Yankees have offered the Red Sox Center Fielder, Jacoby Ellsbury a reported 7 year $153 million deal to lure him to wear pinstripes in the Bronx. This means that forget Carlos Beltran, and forget the ... Read More »
New York, NY - With the FIFA 2014 World Cup draw taking place on Friday, fans of the World’s Most Popular Sport are already excited. This excitement for the beautiful game is also mirrored in the virtual world. Rated #1 on Xbox One and #2 on PS4, EA SPORTS FIFA 14 is the world’s most popular and highest rated sports video game. Here’s some stats: Every 90 minutes, 459,000 games ... Read More »
New York, NY - Wednesday afternoon at B.B.King Blues Club in Times Square Top Rank promoter Bob Arum said there was respect with him and the Mayweather family. He made the comment before introducing trainer Roger Mayweather the uncle of Floyd Mayweather Jr. That warranted some interest, however it was all about Mayweather training two-time champion Joseph Agbeko for his ... Read More »
There have been quite a number of changes happening in Cuba. The government has relaxed on many economic activity that now are legal. Families can rent rooms to foriegners, open small busineses like home restaurants and sell items at open markets and cooperatives. Just recently baseball players that once left the country to play professional baseball were banned from returning, ... Read More »
There used to be a New York television commercial best-known for its tag-line, “Money talks and nobody walks.” The New York Yankees are doing their best to resurrect that tune. Digging deeply into their vault, they landed potential All-Stars in catcher Brian McCann and centerfielder Jacoby Ellsbury, both among the top available free agents this winter. Both got nine-figure contracts ... Read More »
Featured Image: Major League Soccer NEW YORK, NY – Major League Soccer today announced the Best XI, recognizing the League’s top 11 players at each position on the field. This year MLS players, club leadership, and media members voted one goalkeeper, three defenders, four midfielders and three forwards to the Best XI, listed below in alphabetical order within each position: Goalkeeper ... Read More »
Herzogenaurach / Rio de Janeiro – Adidas announced that every baby born in Brazil on Tuesday December 3, the day of the 2014 FIFA World Cup match ball launch, will be given the special chance to receive an Adidas “Brazuca” ball. There is a famous proverb in Brazil; ‘all Brazilian children are born with a soccer ball at their feet’ and in ... Read More »
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