The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
A late winner for Chivas handed the team victory over their fierce Guadalajara rival Atlas in the “Clasico Tapatio,” the oldest derby match in Mexican football last Sunday.
Top-tier tennis is on the menu next week in Guadalajara as the sixth edition of the Jalisco Open unfolds at the Polideportivo Metropolitano de Tenis from Tuesday, March 15 through Sunday, March 20.
The Mexican soccer league, Liga Mx, restarts this weekend with both Guadalajara teams looking to improve on an unexceptional 2015
Leopoldo Seifert, Juan Varela and Yanic Gentry shared honors as co-winners of the first annual Copa Porsche sailing regatta held last weekend at Chapala’s Club de Yates. The three young Jalisco-born athletes racked up equal scores to tie for the championship title.
The Charros de Jalisco finished the year with a 30-38 record, managing to take the sixth and last playoff slot ahead of the Naranjeros de Hermosillo and last year’s Mexican Pacific League (LMP) champions, Tomateros de Culiacan.
Jalisco garnered eight points in the two halves of the LMP season to earn the right to face the top-seeded Aguilas de Mexicali in the first round of the playoffs.
Guadalajara boxer Saul “Canelo” Alvarez will defend his WBC World Middleweight title against Great Britain’s Amir Khan on May 7 in Las Vegas.
Guadalajara’s two leading soccer teams – Chivas and Atlas – will both be happy to see the back of 2015.
It was always going to be tough for the sixth seed Charros to make it through the first round of the Mexican Pacific League playoffs, but the fans, and the Charros themselves, probably did not envision a four-game sweep at the hands of the top-seeded Aguilas de Mexicali.
After a stand-out debut season in 2014, the Charros de Jalisco are in danger of missing out on the Mexican Pacific League (LMP) baseball playoffs, which begin in January.
