Sports in Cuba

The Cuban regime pocketed more than two million dollars in 2025 from contracts of its players in foreign leagues

Leyanis Pérez and Julio César La Cruz, Cuba's top individual athletes in 2025

Raico Arozarena, a former athlete from Cuba, is the star of a charity tournament in Arroyos de Mantua

Another robbery episode shakes the National Series: Artemisa's coach clarifies what happened with his pitcher

Cuban expat Lázaro Junco speaks about his health: “I feel pretty good despite the illness.”

Discussion at the Calixto García in Holguín results in two players being ejected and an unexpected gesture between the coaches

Cuban baseball, a reflection of a nation, falls into the abyss

Game of the National Series suspended due to blackout that prevented players from resting

Eddy Cajigal has been dismissed as the manager of Santiago de Cuba due to repeated misconduct

Cuba finishes in 30th place at the Tokyo Deaflympics

Javier Sotomayor asserts from India: “Now I know what Cuba needs to compete on a grand scale again.”

Controversy in Jatibonico over the burning of grass at the baseball stadium

Juan Francisco Centelles, an emblematic figure in high jump in Cuba, has passed away

Cuba withdraws from the Caribbean Baseball Cup in the Bahamas

Cuban bodybuilders challenge food scarcity and shine at the Provincial Championship in Matanzas

Cuban beach volleyball pairs arrive at the World Championship venue after sleeping on the airport floor

Cuba is seeking sporting "oxygen" in Saudi Arabia amid the collapse of its national system

Sports commentator Manuel Alejandro carves out a new path in the Canary Islands

Cuba suspends soccer and baseball tournaments due to Hurricane Melissa

From Pan American Champion to Living on the Streets: The Dramatic Fall of Lisset Hechavarría, Former Cuban Wrestler

Cuban fencer Camilo Bory Barrientos dies in Italy

Leonel Marshall: “I would have loved to play again with the Cuba team.”

Mijaín López acknowledges the crisis in Cuban sports and advocates for professionalization

Miguelito Calderón has passed away, another glory of Cuban sports forgotten

Gold for Portugal, bronze for Cuba: Two Cubans shine at the Athletics World Championship

Cuban Leyanis Pérez wins gold in the world triple jump and dethrones Yulimar Rojas

Young Cuban baseball player breaches contract with the St. Louis Cardinals and returns to the Island

Pitcher from Guantánamo speaks out after the assault on an umpire during a game in Camagüey

Two Cuban champions reunite in Miami

Former boxer Mario Kindelán talks about his relationship with Fidel Castro: "I had his personal number."

Cuban athletes who escaped in Paraguay explain their decision and future plans

Matanzas in mourning: Heartbreaking farewell to teenager who passed away on the soccer field

Cuban athletes who fled the official delegation in Paraguay reappear

Andy Morales, the home run man in Baltimore, lives happily in Miami

Iván Román Suárez, a leading figure in Cuban sports science, has passed away

Four Cuban athletes leave delegation at Junior Pan American Games in Paraguay: Here's how they did it

Outrage in sports: Pinar del Río team victim of theft at INDER motel

"‘They slept on the ground and without food!’: Mothers report abandonment of child athletes in Cuba."

Cuba's national football team director resigns

Havana restores the historic La Polar stadium

Cuban Yarisleidis Cirilo wins gold at the Under-23 Canoeing World Championship in Portugal

Cubans who escaped from the national handball team secure a contract in Spain

He wasn't a baseball player, but without him, Villa Clara would not have been the same: The legend of Misifú

Boxer Erislandy Álvarez says he has rejected hundreds of thousands of dollars to leave Cuba: "I've earned them here."

Blackouts and food shortages hit high-performance sports in Cuba

The United States denies visas to coaches of a Cuban youth softball team

Iván Alonso, the legendary sports commentator from the COCO station and the soul of the Metropolitanos, has passed away

In search of a miracle: Brazilian coach Luizomar de Moura takes the reins of Cuba's women's volleyball team

Athletes lament the ruins at the EIDE of Pinar del Río: "It hurts a lot."

Cándido Fabré strikes out against MLB players on the Cuba team: "We danced on millionaires."

Mourning in Cuban baseball for the death of Guerrita, a historic sports statistician

U.S. Embassy denies visas to Cuba women's volleyball team

Cuban Alejandro Rodríguez makes history at the World Triathlon Cup in Mexico

Cuban prospect is detained in the Dominican Republic while trying to return to Cuba: "Here I am waiting"

Rolando Tucker: An elegant and virtuous musketeer

"Society doesn't know we exist": First men's trans football team in Cuba raises its voice

Home defeat leaves Cuba out of the path to the 2026 World Cup

Bilateral sport? Cuba and China discuss exchange as the island's system collapses

Tigers roar again and "scare" Lumberjacks in Elite League baseball final

Cuban heptathlete Marys Patterson leaves delegation in Europe before competing in Gotzis