cuba Stories - South Side Sox
Rodney Wallace Gets Called Up for National Team Duty
Well at least we'll be able to watch one Timber this off season as it looks like Rodney Wallace is off to represent Costa Rica once again. Both matches are international friendlies, but any national time he can get the better, in my opinion. The first match will be against Cuba in Cuba... not many...
The Minnie Minoso Hall of Fame forum
On December 5th at the owner's meetings, the Hall of Fame's Historical Overview Committee (made up of Hall of Famers, executives, historians and media members) will vote for 10 finalists from the "Golden Era" of baseball. If these candidates receive 75 percent of the vote, they will be enshrined in...
Portland Timbers Eying Cuban Defectee Yosniel Mesa? [Rumor]
A few weeks ago, the Cuban national team flew up to Charlotte N.C. for a CONCACAF Gold Cup match against Costa Rica, as is usually the case when their team flies to some other country, a number of Cuban players defected to the United States. One of the players was 27 year old Yosniel Mesa, who is...
2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup: Costa Rica beats Cuba 5-0, Mexico beats El Salvador 5-0... and how it effects Marco Pappa and the Chicago Fire
The 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup kicked off with not just a singular bang but two very loud booms on Sunday. Costa Rica topped Cuba 5-0 in the first game and Mexico refused to be out done defeating El Salvador in their own 5-0 performance. Details on both of the games and what this means for Marco...
x-Red Reposter - (x - denotes late game)
Hall o' Famer Hal wins last night's Reds Game Recap Headline Challenge with "Reds Commit Suicide - In a Good Way." Or at least that's how it showed up in my RSS reader. The headline that appears on the Dayton Daily News page is the neutered "Reds' suicide squeeze opens run vault." I won't rest...
Reporting For Duty.
Ayo! So, I've written pretty extensively about what I've been up to for the past few months/weeks, but, now, IT'S GAME TIME. I'm back on my grind, and just in time for... well, a half a year of waiting for college football. I feel like I earned my rep on these here streets by managing to post...
Cuba to US Gringos: We're Waiting Here With Golf and Cigars
Ever since President Obama took office, there has been quite a bit of speculation in the tourism industry that he would lift the travel ban for Americans to Cuba. Obama has already done so for Cuban-Americans seeking to return home, but remarks the President made earlier this week resurrects hope...
Yo me voy a Pinar del Rio*; or, How I learned to stop rooting and secretly am kinda glad we didn't make the NCAA's.
So I'm done with my commitments working for the Daily, but, well, I'm not completely ready to begin writing on the site on a daily basis yet. There's one more thing I have to get out of the way before I can wrest back control of this mofo from Loretta. You see, I've got a really cool...
Friday International B-Ball Update
John Shurna and his USA U-19 Basketball team are the only undefeated team in the World Championships at 6-0, and will play in the quarterfinals today against Canada. What's more, Shurna has been a pretty integral part of the team. I talked about his double-double against Iran already, but since,...
Graph of the Day: Aroldis Chapman's Fastball
Cuban pitcher Aroldis Chapman raised eyebrows around the baseball world this spring. Pitching for the Cuban team in the World Baseball Classic, Chapman flashed an incredible fastball and some nasty secondary stuff, despite some poor results (6.1 IP, 4 ER, 8 K, 4 BB). Those who hadn't noticed...
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