By MARK LORENZANA Bad news for Mexican soccer fans: Mexican striker Jesús “Tecatito” Corona, who plays in La Liga in Spain, was hurt in a training session with his club Sevilla, suffering an injury to his ankle as well as a fibula fracture. Corona went under the knife on Thursday, Aug. 18, his soccer club reported, which means Tecatito will
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The German sportswear brand Puma and Mexico’s Coppel department stores have just signed Grammy-nominee Paty Cantú as their new brand ambassador. As part of the first-ever Coppel Sneaker Fest, Cantú met with fans at the chain’s Oceanía Shopping Mall in Mexico City on Thursday, Aug. 11, to present Puma’s latest sports shoe designs and to talk about
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By MARK LORENZANA Let’s all give Mexican Formula 1 (F1) driver Sergio “Checo” Pérez a break. And by “break,” I don’t just mean the current F1 summer break that’s driving (pun definitely intended) all those die-hard motorsports fans crazy right now. A short digression, for those who are not F1 die-hards: What exactly is the F1 summer break? It’s the
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By MARK LORENZANA On Thursday, Aug. 4, WNBA superstar and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner was convicted by a Russian court of “bringing marijuana with criminal intent into Russia” in February of this year and was sentenced to nine years in prison. The sentence was widely expected by U.S. authorities, to pave the way for negotiations between the two
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By MARK LORENZANA I was only supposed to write about an update on WNBA basketball player Brittney Griner, who is still detained in Russia. I have covered Griner extensively in this column, and I’ve regularly heard and read negative comments about the WNBA star, even from some friends. One of the biggest arguments I’ve read — and heard from friends
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By MARK LORENZANA There has been a lot of soccer news lately. Two columns ago, I wrote about a particularly bad stretch for Mexican soccer: how the Mexican Women’s National Soccer Team went winless in the recently concluded CONCACAF W championship despite hosting the tournament here in Mexico, about how Mexico’s U-20 National Men’s Soccer Team suffered a shocking defeat
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By MARK LORENZANA On Saturday, July 16, Irish golf superstar Rory McIlroy and Viktor Hovland — a 24-year-old Norwegian ranked number nine in the world — shared the lead at 16-under par after the third round at the British Open, the oldest and most prestigious golf tournament in the world. It’s a shame, though, that the British Open — a PGA
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By MARK LORENZANA It hasn’t been a good stretch for Mexican soccer lately, and that’s putting it mildly. On the night of Thursday, July 7, the Mexican national women’s soccer team was dealt a painful loss, 0-3, by regional upstart Haiti in the group stages of the Concacaf W Championship. The crushing blow came several days after losing 0-1 to
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO The Mexican Football Federation (FMF) announced on Friday, July 8, its new home jerseys for the Mexican national team to wear at the 2022 World Cup, slated to take place in Qatar from Nov. 21 to Dec. 18. The new uniform of the national team is inspired by one of the main gods of the ancient Aztec
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By MARK LORENZANA The United States, Honduras, the Dominican Republic and Guatemala will be the four representatives at the 2023 Under-20 World Cup of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) in Indonesia. Mexico’s U-20 team will be left off that list after it suffered a shocking defeat to underdog Guatemala on Thursday, June 30, at
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