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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PULSE NEWS MEXICO After a “corrida” of on-again-off-again legal bouts over whether to allow bullfighting to continue to be practiced in Mexico, the nation’s Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) on Wednesday, June 15, ruled that, while it condemned the sport as inhumane to animals, it would not ban it. Both bullfighting and cockfighting, considered traditional sports in Mexico, “inflict unnecessary,
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By MARK LORENZANA The inaugural LIV Golf Invitational Series teed off on Thursday, June 9, at the Centurion Club in London, England. In May of this year, LIV Golf announced that 42 players would compete in its inaugural event, which has a $25 million total purse. LIV Golf, which is financed by the Public Investment Fund (PIF), the sovereign wealth
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexican Formula 1 (F1) racecar driver Sergio “Checo” Pérez placed second in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix on Sunday, June 12. After abandoning two Ferraris, Pérez’s Red Bull team mate Max Verstappen came in first in the race, while Pérez finished second and took the point for the fastest lap. With this victory, Pérez is now a sub-leader
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By MARK LORENZANA The Golden State Warriors tied the National Basketball Association (NBA) finals on the night of Friday, June 10, against the Boston Celtics at two wins apiece — in front of a hostile crowd, on the road, at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. It took an otherworldly game from Warriors superstar guard Stephen Curry, who essentially put
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican diver and two-time Olympic medalist Paola Espinosa announced Monday, May 9, that she is retiring from the sport after more than two decades in competitions. The first and only Mexican to win a World Swimming Championship, both in individual and synchronized events, Espinosa said in a video conference Monday that she was withdrawing
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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 MARK LORENZANA The good news: The Dallas Mavericks have reached the Eastern Conference Semifinals of the 2022 National Basketball Association (NBA) playoffs after defeating their first-round opponent, the gutsy but outgunned Utah Jazz, in six games. The bad news: As of this writing, they are currently down two games to none against their second-round opponent, the Phoenix Suns, after
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By MARK LORENZANA “I want to be one of the greatest Mexican fighters of all time.” This was the confident answer of Óscar Valdez Jr. — a two-time Olympian who represented Mexico in Beijing 2008 and again in London in 2012 — when asked at a pre-fight interview before his scheduled bout against World Boxing Organization (WBO) super featherweight champion
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican Formula 1 (F1) racer Sergio “Checo” Pérez won second place in the Australia Grand Prix race on Sunday, April 10, coming in just behind Charles Leclerc, who clinched his second win of the season on his home turf. Following unexpected engine failure and the subsequent bursting into flame of Max Verstappen’s Ferrari on
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