If Cuban athletes keep on defecting to the U.S. at this rate, they’re going to able to field a whole roster in any sport. Cuban soccer player Reinier Alcantara is the latest, using his national team’s visit to our...

Well, it looks like we don’t have to wait for a new president for one Cuban embargo to be lifted—the one placed on the US Soccer team. Tomorrow’s US-Cuba World Cup qualifying match will be the first time the...

Fidel Castro spewed an irate letter this morning referencing the performance of his oh so dear Cubans during the Olympics games this year. Specifically, he wanted to show solidarity with psycho taekwando dude, Angel Valodia Matos. If there’s anything...

Taekwondo matches during the Olympics are a flipping mystery to us. Unlike boxing, Taekwondo is scored the way you score a beauty pageant: by absolutely no damn formula whatsoever. Also, the sport is odd. Can these guys even fight?...

When Dayron Robles of Cuba showed up to the Olympic games, he was given a shock. But it wasn’t the Beijing air or firework fakery that got the hurdler in a tizzy. Instead, it was that his name showed...

So when the venue for the World Baseball Championships was announced, do you think the 79% of the Cuban team that wants to defect just slumped their shoulders simultaneously? Out of all the places in the world, Edmonton, Canada...

Once, there was a time when finding out that a Cuban athlete had defected to the US was as exciting as hearing that they were building a Starbucks in your neighborhood. But as time flew, and more and more...

Even as Oscar De La Hoya plans his last battle in the ring, his mind, as usual, is on the future. That’s why he’s signed on Cuban defectors Yan Barthelemy (right) and Erislandy Lara (left) to fight under his...

Don’t you love that feeling when the oldies but goodies come back? Old rivalries revived, WAR playing from the radio and now, a Cuban baseball player has defected to the U.S. What’s so special about that? Considering that the...

Attention South Florida! Have you seen this. um, woman? She is Yurisel Laborde, one of the top female judokas in the world. She’s also Cuban and in Florida, so that can only mean one thing. Yup, like so many...

If last March’s U-23 Olympic soccer qualifiers in Tampa are going to be remembered for anything, it’s probably not going to be soccer. The two most intriguing stories that week were all about freedom—one woman’s desire to let her...

Well, how did this happen? The five Cuban soccer players who fled Granma’s Communist grip two nights ago already have job prospects! The Miami FC from the United Soccer Leagues, which Reuters calls “one step below Major League Soccer”...

If we shook our heads every time a group of Cuban athletes tried to defect en masse, we’d be some bobblehead lookin’ dudes—and it looks like the Cuban Defector Shield has failed the country again. The under-23 national soccer...

True dynasties are few and far between. Contributing editor Alex Ferreyra has lived to see two of them—the New York Yankees and the Cuban… um, Cuba—change “ownership.” Now he wonders which new head of state can keep the legacy...

Either this Cuban boxer is cross-eyed, or the father that left him for some finer living in Miami happened to be a boxing referee. Whatever the case, this guy is probably the worst boxer in the history of boxing....

Internships are cool when you’re 19, so why is 54 year old former Bundesliga coach Reinhold Fanz of Germany essentially taking one by committing to coach the Cuban national soccer team for free? He’s literally not getting paid a...

Teofilo Stevenson, the head of the Cuban Boxing Federation and an icon in his own right, declared yesterday that two countrymen pugilists, Guillermo Rigondeaux and Erislandy Lara, should be able to fight again for their flag. What are the...

Green Bay Packer Nick Barnett got his ass taken down by ref Jim Quirk. This guy could be the next Chuck Lidell… or LAPD recruit. [YouTube] Big Papi Ortiz says his BFF Johan Santana is definitely not going to...

The World Cup qualifying matches were drawn this past weekend, and the 19th-ranked US team is looking at facing either Barbados or Dominica after their first round bye. But looming ahead for the Yanks could be the Cuban team,...

We don’t know what’s more captivating about this video: the kick to the head or the completely strange choice of music. [YouTube, via The Beautiful Game] Did you know Tottenham Spurs coach Martin Jol has brothers named Cock and...

Officials in Cuba continue to believe there is a scary monster living upstream. Cuban zombie and leader, Fidel Castro, has explicitly denied his nation’s boxers the freedom to swap hay-makers with enemy combatants at this year’s Boxing World Championships...

Two Cuban fighters from Cuba defected from their country during the Pan-American games. Guillermo Rigondeaux and Erislandy Lara decided it was a great idea to ditch their Cuban teammates and escape to a brand new, poverty-stricken country. The boxers...