By MARK LORENZANA After being denied the win in Spain due to Red Bull Racing’s team orders, Mexican Formula 1 (F1) driver Sergio “Checo” Pérez scored his first victory of the season on Sunday, May 29, in a rain-marred Monaco Grand Prix — the first ever Mexican to do so. Starting the race in third spot after suffering a huge
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By MARK LORENZANA Several days ago, British former world champion boxer and Olympic silver medalist Amir Khan announced his retirement. Khan is an exciting fighter who has dynamite in his fists but, unfortunately, a glass jaw — while he regularly lit up his opponents, knocking out 21 of them, five of his own six losses came by brutal stoppage. I
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By MARK LORENZANA The last time I saw Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez really hurt and in serious trouble inside the boxing ring was against José Miguel Cotto, the older and less-accomplished brother of multiple-time world champion and recent International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee Miguel Angel Cotto. In that fight, the shorter Cotto stormed out of the gate swinging, determined to
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Maybe Mexican boxer Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez never saw the saga of movies on trigger-happy detective “Dirty Harry,” as wonderfully portrayed by that always-well-admired actor Clint Eastwood. In several of those movies, somewhere near the end, after beating an apparently unbeatable criminal, Dirty Harry would tell the previously invincible crook: “A man’s gotta know his limitations.” Bang! Actually,
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By KELIN DILLON On Saturday, Nov. 6, Guadalajara-born boxer Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez became the first Mexican fighter to ever unite all four belts in the super-middleweight division after knocking out American fighter Caleb Plant in the 11th round of the duo’s Las Vegas duel. Álvarez now boasts the belts and titles for the World Boxing Association, World Boxing Council, World
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican boxer Saul “Canelo” Álvarez’s eighth round knockout of British Billy Joe Saunders, who was previously undefeated, late Saturday, May 8, gave the Guadalajara native a title never achieved before by a Mexican fighter: total champion of an entire weight class. Boxing is a notoriously difficult sport to become absolute champion of due to the multitude of
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By RICARDO CASTILLO World super middleweight boxing champion Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez on Saturday, Feb. 27, outpunched Turkish challenger Avni Yildirim to retain his World Boxing Council (WBC) and World Boxing Association (WBA) belts at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium. During the first two rounds, the 30-year-old Álvarez, a native of Guadalajara, México, studied Yildirim’s style, and by the third round ,he
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Cabeza de Vaca Jumps the Gun After Tamaulipas Governor Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca, along with his fellow National Action Party (PAN) deputies, headed by minority leader Carlos Romero Hicks, took the facility nearly by storm on Wednesday, Feb. 24, and held a press conference claiming that he was a victim of a witch hunt being directed
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Lozoya Nabbed in Malaga Former Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Director Emilio Lozoya Austin was finally found and arrested in Malaga, Spain, by the Spanish police. The news was broken personally in radio interviews on Wednesday, Feb. 12, by Fiscal General Alejandro Gertz Manero. “It was a long pilgrimage (to track down Lozoya Austin) with the arrest warrant we
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By RICARDO CASTILLO García Luna Refuses Mexico’s Help Shackled and wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, Mexico’s former top cop Genaro García Luna appeared before Judge David Horan of the Dallas Federal Court on Tuesday, Dec. 17. García Luna, who was the public security secretary under former Mexican President Felipe Calderón (2006-2012), declined during his brief 10-minute court appearance his right
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