- The greening of Guantanamo - Kansas City Star
By CAROL ROSENBERG GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- Solar-powered lights serve as sentries where US Marines once faced-off along the Cuban frontier. A team of Navy cops now rides bikes rather than gas-guzzling patrol cars in the searing Caribbean ...
- Two Cuban players defect, seek asylum - ESPN
By Jeff Carlisle Two members of the Cuban women's national soccer team have defected to the United States and are asking for political asylum. The players, Yisel Rodriguez and Yezenia Gallardo, disappeared Monday while the team was participating in ...
- Hart says Canada should be ready for next qualifying stage - TSN
A much tougher task awaits against Panama, which is ranked 47th by soccer's world governing body FIFA. Honduras is ranked 51st and Cuba 113th. Canada is currently slotted at No. 74 in the world. It is one of three groups playing in the CONCACAF (North ...
- Canada's WC warmup schedule not ideal - Toronto Sun
Canada men's soccer coach Stephen Hart will have to get his team ready for a World Cup qualifier against Cuba without much live-game preparation. (TORONTO SUN file photo) Logistical excuses remain ever-present in terms of explaining why the Canadian ...
- PASSINGS: Harry Keough, Jim Lloyd, Antoni Tapies, Florence Green - Los Angeles Times
Harry Keough, American soccer legend, dies at 84; Jim Lloyd, former West Covina congressman, dies at 89; Antoni Tapies, Spanish art figure, dies at 88; Florence Green, last known World War I veteran, dies at 110. Jim Lloyd served three terms in the US ...
- Haiti women's soccer team offers country rare hope - The Grio
In Haiti, where they are still recovering from the devastating earthquake that literally flattened the island nation, any signs of hope come from a different kind of football. Haiti's women's soccer team defeated Cuba 3-0 on Monday night in their final ...
- Preparation already underway for Canada's men's soccer squad - Vancouver Sun
The Canadian men's soccer team doesn't begin the next stage of World Cup qualifying until June, but that doesn't mean the club is coasting through the winter months. Quite the opposite in fact at the managerial level. By necessity, head coach Stephen ...
- Cuban athletes flee to U.S. after Vancouver soccer game - Calgary Herald
VANCOUVER -- It was with a late-night cab ride to the border and an identification card concealed in her shoe that Yisel Rodriguez, of the Cuban women's national soccer team, quietly slipped into the United States over the weekend.
- Mexico Women Look to Upset Canada in Olympic Soccer Showdown - Fox News
Costa Rica's Shirley Cruz (10) blocks a kick from Cuba's Jessica Alvarez Pupo, right in CONCACAF Women's Olympic qualifying soccer in Vancouver, British Columbia, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012. Costa Rica won 2-0. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, ...
- US soccer team to play Canada in Toronto for final tuneup before World Cup ... - Washington Post
CHICAGO — The US men's soccer team will play its final tuneup before World Cup qualifying against Canada on on June 3 in Toronto. US soccer said in a release Thursday night the Americans will play its first match in Canada since 1997 as part of ...