Sports in Cuba

Orlando "El Duque" Hernández: "Anyone who supports playing with Cuba is a coward."

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

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

Raico Arozarena, former goalkeeper of Cuba, stars in a charity tournament in Arroyos de Mantua

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

Cuban ex-ballplayer Lázaro Junco talks about his health: “I feel quite well despite the illness.”

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

Cuban baseball, a mirror of a country, falls into the abyss

The National Series game was suspended due to a power outage that prevented the players from resting

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

Cuba finishes in 30th place at the Deaflympics in Tokyo

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 jumping in Cuba, has passed away

Cuba withdraws from the Caribbean Baseball Cup in the Bahamas

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

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

Cuba seeks sports "oxygen" in Saudi Arabia amid the collapse of its national system

Sports commentator Manuel Alejandro is forging a new path in the Canary Islands

Cuba suspends football 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 team Cuba.”

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

Miguelito Calderón has died, another glory of Cuban sports lost to obscurity

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

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

Guantanamo pitcher speaks out after an attack 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 died on the football field

Cuban athletes who fled the official delegation in Paraguay reappear

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

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

Four Cuban athletes leave the delegation at the Junior Pan American Games in Paraguay: This is how they did it

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

"¡They slept on the floor and without food!": Mothers report abandonment of athlete children in Cuba

The director of the Cuba national football team resigns

Havana recovers the historic stadium La Polar

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 wouldn't have been the same: The legend of Misifú

Boxer Erislandy Álvarez says he has turned down hundreds of thousands of dollars to leave Cuba: "I have earned them here."

Blackouts and food shortages strike high-performance sports in Cuba

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

Iván Alonso, the historic sports commentator of the COCO radio station and the soul of the Metropolitanos, has passed away

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

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

Cándido Fabré lashes out at 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 Triathlon World Cup in Mexico

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

Rolando Tucker: An elegant and virtuosic musketeer

“The society does not know we exist”: First men's transgender football team in Cuba raises its voice

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

Bilateral sports? Cuba and China discuss exchange while the island's system collapses

Tigres roar again and "scare" Leñadores in the baseball final of the Liga Élite