The Major League Baseball season starts in April with 30 teams and ends in September with the final eight. It takes five months and 162 games to decide who gets to the post-season. While football has increased television ratings, over the last few years, and the Super Bowl has almost become a national holiday, there Read More

Colorado Springs, Colorado (CNN) — A high school gym erupts with cheers as the announcer introduces the women fighting to be the nation’s top amateur boxers. Names like Esparza, Cruz and Estrada sound out over the PA system, as young Latinas with impressively defined arms take to the ring.

On April 17, 1955, a baseball player listed on the roster as ‘Bob Clemente’ swung on a pitch, from Brooklyn pitcher Johnny Podres, at his first at bat, sending a single dribbling into right field. That player, more commonly known by his birth name, Roberto Clemente, not only started his major league career with a Read More

“ I get the ball, throw the ball, and then I take a shower.” Mariano Rivera The Yankees legendary closer, Mariano Rivera, will become the all time greatest closer in baseball history, this weekend in Toronto. Rivera, the last man to wear #42, debuted with the team in 1995. Two years later he made it Read More

Yes. It’s that time of year. You consider “unfollowing” and “unfriending” some of your friends due to the never-ending posts regarding names you don’t recognize: Peyton, Vick, Peterson. Your significant other cares more about the upcoming fantasy draft than your anniversary next week. Your coworkers speak in strange jargon: “over/under,” “point spread,” “I just need Read More

We regret to inform you that the psychic octopus, Pulpo Paul, has passed away today in his sleep. Paul is best known for his prediction of Spain’s victory over the Netherlands in the World Cup this year. RIP Pulpo Paul. ______________________________________________________________ [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya85knuDzp8] ______________________________________________________________ To find out more information on Pulpo Paul, click here.

Most Latinas are not afraid to embrace and show off our curves. I remember hearing a man say, “you can always spot an American from a Latina just by looking at their clothes.” Although I took some offense to the comment itself, and the fact that he assumed we all wore tighter clothes than most, Read More

World cup television ratings in the USA are the highest they have been since 1994 when the United States hosted the World Cup. Despite the fact that none of the games have been shown in prime time,  99.2 million Americans (34% of the population of the country) have watched at least 6 minutes of a Read More

  I have a confession to make: I am not a fan of fútbol – or soccer, as it’s know in the U.S. I realize this might not be the smartest thing to say in the middle of the World Cup, and I must say, whenever I mention this, it usually comes as a shock Read More