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...

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...