Cuban baseball player Yurisbel Gracial signed on Monday in Havana a contract to play with the SoftBank Baseball Team from the Japanese League next season. This is the first time that the team selects four foreign players from a same country.

Zapopan, Mexico - Juan Francisco Puello, president of the Caribbean Confederation of Professional Baseball (CBPC by its Spanish acronym) reasserted that the main obstacle for the inclusion of Cuba in that organization is the policy of the United Strates against Havana.

Havana, Cuba - Havana´s Yuri Gonzalez won the Cuban Men´s National Chess Championship for the first time last Sunday.

Havana - The Granma team, Cuban representative in the Caribbean Series Baseball Tournament Guadalajara-2018, received the flag today in this capital.

Baracoa, Cuba - The first Cuban city ever built in Cuba, Baracoa, is ready to receive on February 14th the start of the 5th National Cycling Classic, said sources from the Cuban Sports Institute (INDER).

Lausanne, Switzerland - The International Olympic Committee (IOC) expressed its concern about the quality of new containers for anti-doping samples.