Cuba will send its best athletes to Rio de Janeiro, confirmed Jose Ramon Fernandez, president of the Cuban Olympic Committee, who went to a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Pan American Sport Organization in this Brazilian city. Read More
Major League Baseball gave us Van Lingle Mungo, Mickey Klutts, Urban Shocker and Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuskahoma McLish. Many a big leaguer has been known as much for his screwball name as his prowess on the diamond. Read More
The Cuban women's table tennis team have classified for the 15th Pan American Games, to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from July 13 to 29, one of the two teams from Latin America attending the regional event. Read More
Las Tunas and Camaguey won the last two playoff slots over the weekend and post season play gets under way for the surviving eight teams on Tuesday and Wednesday in the 2006-7 Cuban Baseball League. Read More
A former North East boxing champion has launched a campaign to lure some of the best amateur boxers in the world to the region ahead of the 2012 Olympics. Read More
The Cuban soccer team heads for Venezuela on Thursday where it will play a game on Saturday against the national squad in the Andean city of Merida. Read More
World Indoor 60-metres hurdles silver medallist Dayron Robles made a successful start to his 2007 outdoor campaign after winning the men's 110m Hurdles at the Rafael Fortun National Meeting in Camagüey at the weekend. Read More
Portugal's Minister of Youth and Sports Laurentino Dias on Monday met the vice president at Cuba's Sport Institute (Inder), Roberto Leon Richard, at the start of a four-day trip to the island, Cuban media said on Monday. Read More
The eastern Cuban province of Las Tunas and Holguín will host the 8th National University Games in late April. Las Tunas will hold the competitions in athletics, basketball, table tennis and volleyball. Read More
