Tokyo, Japan.-US Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred confirmed here today that negotiations between his organization and Cuba are underway. There is a dialogue of mutual interest that continues. The main topics are the free circulation of Cuban players to the Major Leagues and the possibility that they return to their country out of season, […]
Havana, Cuba.-A Cuban baseball team will make its debut before Canadian Trois Rivieres in the Canadian-American Independent League (Can-Am), a tournament in which the Cuban players will participate for the 2nd consecutive time. The Cuban players will play 21 matches in the Can-Am Independent League in 22 days, in a championship in which 8 teams, […]
Havana, Cuba.-The boxing dual meet between a Cuban provincial team, and a team from the US city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, showed that sport exchanges between Cuba and the US are opening ways for normalization of bilateral relations. After several dual meets in sports such as baseball, basketball, wrestling, kick boxing, soccer, volleyball, water sports and […]
Havana, Cuba.-The Cuban Baseball Federation (FCB) let know today the payroll of the 28 members of the national baseball team, that will participate in the World Baseball Classic starting March 7. The team, yet susceptible to changes, according to the statement, is composed by three catchers, seven infielders, five outfielders and 13 pitchers, of which […]
Bayamo, Cuba.-Granma Sorrels is ahead 3-0, and intends to finish today the fourth game of the series: to win the Cuban baseball series for the first time. We´ve ever seen such a great comeback like this one in the Cuban baseball history. So, are the Sorrels already champions? Are the Ciego de Avila Tigers eliminated […]
Havana, Cuba.-Cuban Grand Masters Maritza Arribas (2295 points ELO) and Yaniet Marrero (2255) will attend the Womken”s Chess World Championship in Tehran, Iran, from February 10 to March 5, it was announced in this capital. The tournament in the Iranian capital will be disputed in six rounds by the Swiss system with the participation of […]
Havana, Cuba.-The franchise Domadores de Cuba (Cuba Tamers) let know the complete list of the Cuban fighters to represent the Caribbean island in the 7th World Series of Boxing (WSB), a list in which three Olympic Champions are included. The three Olympic Champions are: Robeisy Ramirez (Rio de Janeiro, 2016, 56 kilograms), Arlen Lopez (75 […]
Havana, Cuba.-Cuban beach volleyball player Sergio Gonzalez predicted that the main Cuban pair in this sport would achieve new victories in the World Circuit in 2017. ‘We, based on the results achieved in the Olympic Games, are in good conditions to be included in the World Circuit, which is the top level in beach volleyball […]
Havana, Cuba.-Argentina”s former soccer star Diego Armando Maradona is in Havana to participate in the tribute to Fidel Castro, historical leader of the Cuban Revolution. ‘I am coming here to be with my second father, with the legend going away from us, but he is leaving such a clear legacy, that we cannot betray. Those […]
Havana, Cuba.-The Cubans Yowlys Bonne, Alejandro Valdes and Reineris Salas won silver medals in the Wrestling Golden Grand Prix final in Baku. In the 61-kilogram category, Bonne, who won bronze in Tashkent-2014, lost the gold by 0-9 to Akhmednabi Gvarzatilov, after defeating the Belarusian Husein Shakhbanau (7-2) and the American Alan Taylor Waters (6-4). Meanwhile, […]
