General News

Top-ranked Saul “Canelo” Alvarez’s planned December 6 fight against Joshua Clottey in Houston was canceled Monday so that the Guadalajara-born boxer can fix an ongoing ankle injury.  

Lakeside’s novice athletic club Salvajes Ajijic surmounted daunting obstacles to break new ground for mountain runners and successfully host the side-by-side 9.1-kilometer Copal China and 14-kilometer Campanaria races on Sunday, August 23. 

Tapatios’ agonizing two-decade wait for professional baseball will come to an end on the evening of Friday, October 10 when the Charros de Jalisco take the field for the inaugural game of the Liga Mexicana del Pacifico (LMP) 2014-15 season.

Guadalajara diver Alejandra Orozco, 17, has won a gold medal the Youth Olympics taking place in Nanjing, China – Mexico’s first ever in a Youth Olympics.

Runners with a hankering for a new competitive challenge will have the chance to test their mettle at Jocotepec’s Primera Carrera Panorámica, set for Sunday, October 12, 8:30 a.m..

The avid young athletes associated with the Salvajes Ajijic running club have been gaining fame as they have steadily burnt up tracks in every race they have entered since the group was formed just over a year ago.

Guadalajara’s most popular sporting son, soccer player Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez, has made what he calls his “dream move” to Spain’s Real Madrid, one of the richest clubs in the world.

Organizers of Jocotepec’s Primera Carrera Panorámica met with the press last week to announce details of the 12.6-kilometer race to be held on Sunday, October 12, with backing from the Federation of Mexican Athletics Associations  (FMAA).