Kid who caught football bug in Guadalajara snubbed in NFL Draft after stellar college career
Shayne Skov, who has signed with San Francisco as an undrafted free agent, got his first taste of football with the Guadalajara Carneros (Rams).
Looking for a different life experience, Skov’s parents moved to Guadalajara in 1999 when their son was 10.

After six successful years at the Guadalajara Country Club, the annual LPGA Lorena Ochoa Invitational will take place this year from November 13-16 at the Club de Golf Mexico in the Tlalpan suburb of Mexico City.
The Guadalajara Chivas and Atlas will be joined by a third local team in next season’s Liga MX, the top tier of the country’s professional soccer league.
Carlos Ortiz, the 23-year-old Tapatio golfer who has taken the Web.com Tour (the developmental tour of the PGA Tour) by storm this year, will be in the field at the Memorial Tournament held at the Muirfield Village Golf Club in Ohio from May 29 to June 1 – his first PGA event.
Around 55,000 feverish supporters roared the Leones Negros (Black Lions) to victory Saturday in the Jalisco Stadium, thus ensuring that the University of Guadalajara’s pro soccer team will be competing in the top-flight Liga Mx next season.
The fired coach of the Chivas soccer team is alleged to have tried to force a female employee at the club to touch his private parts, it was revealed this week.
Guadalajara Formula One racer Sergio Perez was back on the winner’s podium for the fourth time in his career and the first time since 2012 after finishing in third place in last Sunday’s Malaysian Grand Prix.