The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
For several years, this newspaper has been charting the steady rise to international stardom of three young Guadalajara-born sportsmen: boxer Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, Formula One racer Sergio “Checo” Perez and soccer ace Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez.
A disastrous season for Guadalajara’s top two soccer teams, Chivas and Atlas, has been offset by the change in fortunes for the Universidad de Guadalajara’s Leones Negros (Black Lions), who won the Ascencio MX league crown last weekend and are within one playoff game – to be held next May – of returning to the Liga MX, the top tier of Mexican soccer.
Mexico’s national soccer team defeated New Zealand 5-1 on Wednesday to virtually guarantee a place in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. El Tri now travel to New Zealand for the return leg on November 20, a game that will surely be a formality.
Mexico's second-largest broadcaster TV Azteca has purchased Guadalajara soccer club Atlas in a deal reportedly valued at almost 50 million dollars.
Next week’s sixth Lorena Ochoa Invitational could be the last time the prestigious LPGA golf tournament is played at the Guadalajara Country Club, organizers are saying.
Lexi Thompson sank a six-foot birdie putt on the final hole of the Lorena Ochoa Invitational to edge Stacy Lewis by one stroke and win her second LPGA trophy of the season.
With an estimated 650 million dollars at stake, Mexico’s upcoming World Soccer Cup qualifiers against New Zealand on November 13 and 19 represent the national side’s most significant games in decades.
Guadalajara racer Sergio Perez will leave Formula One team McLaren after a single season that he spent struggling in an uncompetitive car.
Although Mexico is unlikely to send any competitors to the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia next year, the games will be screened here thanks to communications magnate Carlos Slim, whose company America Movil acquired the transmission rights earlier this year.
